Serenity Foundation

Serenity foundation is a non religious charity based in England created to relieve the needs of children in Kayamandi township in South Africa.  Specifically by the construction and operation of an orphanage which will operate in full cooperation with the local community and the provision of education and training.

Our aim is to help those children who have no way of helping themselves, to stop them having to live on the streets, to take away the responsibilities of having to feed themselves, to give them back the opportunity to be children and provide them with education and spiritual guidance to help them develop the ability to have the dreams for their future that come so naturally to us.

Serenity is One Year Old!

Serenity Foundation has recently celebrated its first birthday, and we wanted to thank everyone for their support over the past year.  With your help, we have raised a little under £4,000, and this has allowed us to do a lot of good in Kayamandi.

We now have 6 children, ranging from grade 4 up to grade 11, for whom we have financially committed to paying school fees via our school grant program. The children all come from extremely low income families and this financial support allows these children to attend schools outside of Kayamandi, providing them with a chance at a better education.  You can read some of theirs stories on these pages.

We also support three children (Ronaldo, age 7; Jody, age 8; and Xolani, age 3) who come from a very impoverished home situation in which even their basic needs were not being met. Our support of these children now allows them to participate in a school program that provides food, a safe environment, educational and literacy guidance, encourages extracurricular skill development such as music and art, and gives them the warm feeling of love and support  You can help us extend this program from as little as £15 per month.

We also learned of a story of a very brave 16 year old girl in Kayamandi that was living on her own after her guardian had died. She had kept this quiet for approximately a year before her schoolmates began to take notice and reported the situation to a guidance counselor. Serenity Foundation, in partnership with a Kayamandi youth program, will provide financial and emotional support to help relieve the worries that a 16 year old shouldn’t have to deal with and allow her to focus on her education.

We kicked off our skills development program by partnering with a local young adult program, to support a young woman from Kayamandi who wished to attend a nursing program but didn’t have all of the financial means to do so. We were able to pay a portion of her training program and she is now enrolled and attending nursing school. This will hopefully allow her to flourish in a wonderful and much needed vocation.

The need in Kayamandi can be overwhelming and we are in gratitude to you for opening your heart and caring about these children and supporting our cause.  There are a number of ways you can continue to do so, either donating online via PayPal or JustGiving or signing up to easyfundraising.org.uk where you can raise money for us simply by shopping online.  To discuss any other way that you would like to help us in our cause, feel free to contact us at info@serenityfoundation.org.uk.

News and Updates

16 MARCH 2010: An Important Update from Kayamandi
We recently learned of a story of a very brave 16 year old girl in Kayamandi that was living on her own after her guardian had died.... 
Read More

01 JANUARY 2010: An Update from Kayamandi
Greetings from Kayamandi, South Africa!... 
Read More 

A Video Message from our Kayamandi Manager 

Recently we asked Mvuyo McDonald Ndzala to tell us about why he wanted to start the project and his dreams for the education of the children of the township, so that our supporters could meet the man who will be managing our work in South Africa.  It was completely unscripted - just him talking from the heart about it.