The Omprakash Foundation

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.

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.

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From: Kevin Chaplin [mailto:kevin@amybiehl.co.za]
Sent: Wed 11/7/2007 3:38 AM
To: William Oppenheim
Subject: RE: [BULK] RE: Friends from the Jhburg airport

HI Willy

Sorry for not replying earlier. Great to hear from you. We have started off slow. There are 43 children and we are not pushing for more now as it is our end of school year at the end of this month and the children are all learning for tests and exams. They break up from 28 November until 23 January next year. I think your schools have that at the middle of the year as opposed to ours now. We are doing simple art, songs and games with the children now and next year from 25 January will go on a big recruitment drive to get a minimum of 100 children and will run 5 classes of 20 with music, art, sport and dance being taught. We are giving the children a sandwich and cold drink every day and they are loving it. We have one lady, Mrs Peter running the aftercare for us at the moment and next year we will have 5 facilitators working with her. We are busy interviewing candidates for next year. We are also busy assessing if this is the best venue for the aftercare and will make a decision whether to continue at this venue in Ntshinga next year or move to a better venue from end of January 2008, will let you know at the end of the year.

A lot of the children go back to the rural areas of the Eastern Cape for the holidays but those that stay should be 20 from the 45 and we will have a camp for them and the children combined from our other 2 centres. We are busy planning this now – it will be from 3 December - 7 December and will update you on that.

We do not have photos yet, our camera was stolen but we are busy getting a new one at the end of the month. In the meantime I will send you some photos that you can put on the website of our children at the other centre so people get an idea.

The $ 25 000 will be allocated as follows:

Foodsupplies : $ 4500

Co-ordinator & Facilitators : $ 10500

Transport : $ 2000

Materials, stationery & Supplies : $ 3000

Admin : $ 1000

Equipment : $ 1000

Outings & Events : $ 3000

Thanks again Willy for helping to make a difference where it is so badly needed. Take care and keep in touch.

Kind regards

Kevin Chaplin

Managing Director

The Amy Biehl Foundation Trust

7th Floor 1 Plein Street Cape Town

Phone 021-462 5052

Cell 083 564 5568

Email kevin@amybiehl.co.z

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