Our Storehouse project represents the heart of Prochorus Somerset West, distributing resources collected from the network in which we operate to the people in need in our communities.

We collaborate with like-minded organizations toward a better, empowered community. By partnering with organizations and individuals, we are able to continually diversify our operations into new areas, the latest being ‘community awareness’ in partnership with schools’ Headmaster’s Award programs. This is a great platform for us to get the local youth involved with community projects and impart the ‘use your power to empower’ ideology at an early age. We are trusting for opportunities to expand our operations into the Macassar/Firgrove/Raithby and Sir Lowry’s Pass Village/Gordon’s Bay communities.

For more info or to get involved, contact Gérard Ter Haar, the manager of Prochorus Somerset West, at 076 948 4993 or 021 851 9722.

Stable Ministries was founded in the Strand informal settlement, Asanda Village by Pastor Morris Van Zyl in 2003 for a group of Zimbabwean Christians who worked in his construction company, Van Zyl Builders. Eventually, a double stand was bought in Nomzamo, Strand, where they built a church in 2010.

The women in the church were looking for employment opportunities for themselves and started looking after babies at home. They identified the need for a Christian crèche in the community and Morris started it in the church building with 6 children. When Morris passed away at the end of 2012 in a tragic work accident, Shofar Somerset West stepped in and took up his legacy. By then, the crèche catered for 15 children. Kibwe Kids (a sister NGO to Prochorus) bought the property from his estate to ensure the continuation of the work started on the property.

In 2013 a generous donor, Secure Data, erected two wooden structures (18m2 & 27m2) as permanent homes for the expanding crèche. Our crèche currently caters for up to 60 children between the ages of 2 and 6 years, on a daily basis with three full-time teachers with the help of some assistants, looking after them from 7 am to 6 pm. The structures are also used for educational purposes when outreaches are done in the community by the church and on Sundays for the children’s church.

Masikhule, an NGO in the Helderberg, is also involved with the ECD facility. Prochorus wants to ensure that the learning inside the facility provides the children with a solid foundation for life-long learning and productive participation in life. Masikhule provides teacher training and supports and mentors the crèche from an educational perspective.

At that stage, the wooden structures still had no electricity or ceilings, which meant very cold classrooms during winter. During the November 2013 floods in the Helderberg, extensive damage occurred at the crèche, and with the help of a donor, Prochorus started repairs by replacing the wooden floors with a concrete floors in the structures, henceforth securing the structures to the ground. We then prayed for provision to transform what we were given to steward into something special and safe for the children.

Kibwe Kids then funded the electricity supply to the church grounds, and we could provide a temporary electricity supply to the crèche buildings. The local Somerset West Shofar church assisted over the years by providing volunteers to most projects undertaken at the crèche, i.e. the 2014 project ‘LetsPlant Asanda Village’, which provided the premises’ fences with Bougainvillaea bush covering. We’ve had wonderful involvement from them over the years on other projects like ‘LetsPaint’, ‘Books of Life’, ‘Eat for Life’, ‘LetsPlay’ and many more.

In 2014, a national Prochorus donor, Bester Feed & Grain (Pty) Ltd, allocated funds to run an extensive community upliftment project for our crèche. Both the crèche structures had painted inside walls, insulated ceilings, shelving for the educational toys, educational and Biblical posters on all walls, huge painted blackboards in each structure, desks and chairs for the teachers, mattresses for nap-times and cutlery and crockery for lunch-time. The outsides of the two structures were also painted with huge Biblical scenes, done by the staff of Bester Feed and with the help of the church community volunteers. Rentia Deyzel was the driving force behind the scenes for the Bester group in what was to be known affectionately as the ‘LetsPaint’ project. This also served as a ‘blueprint’ for all the future paint projects done here.

Some of the other needs of the crèche that have been met through the years by numerous very generous private and corporate donors include:

Partnering with Amazing Brainz, Prochorus Delft will be training and evaluating a group of 80 crèche teachers from over 20 crèches in the Delft community. The curriculum is designed to equip the teachers and provide them with the resources they need to run successful crèches and move one step closer to registering with the Department of Social Development (DSD).

Looking to the future, the desire is to open the training up to as many teachers in the community as possible. The heart is to upskill and empower the teachers who will be teaching the next generation.

The first cycle started in September and will run until June 2019, after which all the crèches involved will undergo monitoring, evaluation and mentoring, before receiving their Amazing Brainz curriculum certificate.

Our Educare Centre exists to provide the scholars of Jonkershoek with an accessible and appropriate place to receive help with their school work. There is also a focus on developing other skills and providing mentorship.

There are 20 computer stations where learners can improve their computer literacy, do internet research or just complete homework projects.

Teachers and volunteers assist the children with homework or provide extra learning activities.

How to get involved:

• Volunteer to assist the children with their homework
• Assisting with computer literacy and other skills
• Donation of stationery, puzzles and books (educational and reading) – must be age appropriate for primary and high school children (English, Xhosa and Afrikaans)
• Collection of food from our provider on a weekly basis

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Our vision for this project is to equip underprivileged teenage girls to discover their unique identity in order to display God’s glory, stop negative cycles and become the light/leaders in their communities.
We aim to support and give guidance to girls in developing communities by teaching them practical skills. We care enough to discuss topics that are never raised by their parents, simply because they don’t know how to, since they themselves haven’t been taught or they don’t value the need to create a safe environment in which their children can discover. When asked, “Where is your father?” a thirteen year old girl answered: “He went to buy milk and never came back.”

Girls grow up in broken families and are often raised by their grandmothers and fathers being completely absent. In South Africa one in three girls has had a baby by the age of 20.
Our project intends to restore hope and establish worth in every heart in the midst of many adversities, we can rebuild healthy family structures and negative generational cycles can be ended.
Each group is led by 3 young working adults and sessions are held weekly. Our short term goals are to eliminate teenage pregnancies, keep every girl in school and to create a platform where girls can discover their unique identities. We believe that these teenage girls are the foundation of restoration in families and in their communities.

Every life counts – One girl at a time

What we need:

• Mentoring/leading a group of 10 girls together with friends, contact info@prochorus.org
• do you have a specific skill that you could share with the groups
• Developing programmes to assist us
• Assist in creating networks that will enable every girl to live a life she was created for depending on her particular need.

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Many abuse and rape cases take place in the community where parents are unemployed, but not sufficiently watchful over toddlers playing in the mornings whilst older children are at school. This motivated us to start a playgroup for the toddlers to keep them safe and occupied in the mornings and to expose them to vital Early Childhood Development.

This project has grown and we realise there is a need to duplicate the playgroup due to the long waiting list.

What we need:

• Volunteers to commit their time to assist in our playgroups
• Educational toys and activities for ages 3-6
• Stationery such as paper, crayons, finger paint
• Afrikaans story books
• Teacher salaries (contact info@prochorus.org for further details)

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