"This Is About Changing the Apartheid Mindset"

This is a breakfast in the small classroom of pre-schoolers at Sophie’s creche. This classroom has one table but no chairs for the pre-schoolers.

Besides the lack of table and chairs fo these pre-schoolers, their is a very real need for porridge bowls for the kids. The problem is the hot porridge can spill off the plates and burn the kids.

Government officials have implored her to get tables and chairs, so this is becoming a pressing issue.

Sophie still doesn’t have government funding, and yet to get government funding, to get government certification, she must fulfill obligations for the creche that costs money she simply does not have.

Under Apartheid, Sophie and her family were not allowed to sit on chairs, or eat at a table where her family worked and lived. Sophie wants to change “the Apartheid mindset” that she and many others were forced to endure during the Apartheid.

Sophie is requesting urgent funds to change that mindset with tables, chairs, and bowls for both the big and small classroom.

Thank you so much for reading this and giving any donations that you can.

Transcript:

Hello LuAnn, this is how the children are eating. This is their morning porridge, and they are sitting on the floor. Instead of sitting on tables and chairs, because we don’t have tables and chairs. This is the kind of bowl that they are suppose to have their soft porridge in but they only have 4 left. They are not suppose to be eating in these one, because these are flat and the porridge is soft, so we have to leave the porridge to cool down, so it doesn’t burn them. So we don’t have chairs in here, we only have one table. And we have one table for the teachers where they are sitting.

They are suppose to be at the tables and chairs, so when they grow up, trying to get them out of the apartheid, that is why I am asking for chairs and tables, so we give them a different mind. This is the small class. The teachers are coming in, that is Leaspor, she is looking at them…

This is my reason for asking for chairs and tables. We don’t have chairs and tables. But everything else is beautiful, thank you so much.