Partnership with the Amy Biehl Foundation
Project Profile
The Amy Biehl Foundation (www.amybiehl.co.za), an organization operating out of Cape Town, South Africa, reaches over 3,000 underprivileged children per week by providing them with after-school opportunities including art, music, sports, and tutoring. Please contact willy@omprakash.org if you want to support this organization. To learn more about the work of the ABFT, click on one of the two links below.
Click here to download a detailed description of the Amy Biehl Foundation
Click here to download a brief description of the Amy Biehl Foundation
Partnership History
The Amy Biehl Foundation has been an Omprakash Partner since September, 2007.
-On October 3, 2007, we transferred $10,000 to the Amy Biehl Foundation to enable the opening of a new after-school center in Guguletu township. The annual costs of this project will be about $25,000. Through our partnership with the Amy Biehl Foundation, we hope to be able to support this new project in years to come.
-In October, 2008, we donated $10,000 to continue our support of the after-school center in Guguletu.
Need for Volunteers
The Amy Biehl Foundation accepts volunteers year-round.
If you are interested in volunteering for the Amy Biehl Foundation, please contact us or contact the ABFT directly by emailing Joanna@amybiehl.co.za. To volunteer, you will eventually need to fill out the brief volunteer application found below.
click here to download an application to volunteer for the Amy Biehl Foundation
Need for Material Resources
The text below elucidates the annual costs of the new after-school center that Omprakash has begun to support. Please take the time to read through these emails from Kevin Chaplin, the project´s director, and consider helping us meet the needs of this organization.
