Get Rich Savings Club Gives Back
1. Name
1.1 The organisation represented is known as the Get Rich Savings Club.
1.2 The organisation was formed on the 05 January 2013 in Bellville, Cape Town.
2. Objectives
2.1 The organisation's main objective is to collectively save money in a bank as a group for 10-11 months.
2.2 Get Rich Savings Club endeavours to give back to the communities where we as the members live. Our pilot project is called “Keep a girl in school”.
Keep a girl in school
There are 2.1 million young girls, between the ages of 12 and 18 years, (living below the poverty line in South Africa) who have to resort to using old clothes, rags, newspapers, leaves, bark and grass because they cannot afford sanitary towels.
The result, according to UNICEF, is that 1 in every 10 schoolgirls in Africa miss classes or drop out of school completely.
Girls who cannot afford pads or tampons miss approximately five days of school a month, which amounts to 60 missed school days a year.
The lack of affordable sanitary products for girls and women keeps them at a disadvantage in terms of education when they are young and prevents their mobility and productivity as women.
Without sanitary products, girls are excluded from their right to an education as stipulated by the Constitution of South Africa.
AIMS
To enable girls to make a lasting and positive impact on the communities they live in and society as a whole
They will complete high school, will be less likely to get HIV/AIDS or fall pregnant before 18
They will likely earn higher wages and successfully educate their own children.
Members of the Get Rich Savings Club aim to donate sanitary towels to schools in our respective communities on a rotational basis, beginning from mid-March 2014.
(Source: http://www.ngopulse.org/press-release/no-pads-no-school-girls-education-going-down-toilet)
Vuyokazi Yonke, Desiree Reman, Mrs. M. Coetzee (Silwood Heights, Eerste River)
C: 0838...... (Vuyokazi) or 0219020259 Mrs Coetzee
E: grsavingsclub@gmail.com
