Our vision statement
“Poverty free people, poverty free communities”
Our mission statement
“To create solid solutions to the illiterate, the poor and to social injustice”
About us
The Wellspring Foundation; Founded in 2013, the wellspring foundation stands on the shoulders of its central purpose of the promotion of human and community development and its three imperatives of literacy improvement, poverty eradication and social injustice. As we work to build strong communities, we hope to reinforce and grow a culture of human rights to better living conditions. This philanthropic drive exemplifies people around the Republic of South Africa. Through charitable donations, the Wellspring Foundation will assist SACBOs (South African Community Based Organisations), NGOs and other social enterprises to address social injustice, community needs and improve overall quality of life. The following are the three major driving forces behind the wellspring foundation. Literacy (childhood and youth),
Poverty eradication, and;
Social injustice. The wellspring foundation contributes to charitable organisations across the Republic of South Africa and around the world. Educational empowerment: We offer significant support and assistance to Pre-Schools, Primary Schools and Secondary Schools through the provision of resources in need. Our world, Our people, Our responsibility WEFO Documents
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Social injustice; refers to unfairness, favouritisms and discriminative action that takes place in the allocation of human’s basic need in our societies/communities. Emancipation; to free somebody or a group of people or a society from social restriction. THE VISION
Well, as the Wellspring Foundation; our vision is to be the leading humanitarian foundation in the world. We believe that we are on the face of the earth to serve a purpose through great change and innovating ideas to eradicate poverty. We are constantly focusing on our long-term vision that is to have a poverty free world whereby all (the rich and the disadvantaged) people will be living in better living condition. We stand on our central purpose of making the world liveable. Wellspring Foundation’s responsibility is to continually improve all aspects that contribute to the eradication of poverty. We believe that in the next 40-50 years we will be living in a poverty free world which also have better economic excellence. Our vision is also to put into action programs and a focus on literacy improvement in South Africa and around the whole world and a commitment to build strong communities. THE MISSION
We are an education, economy and people centred organisation that develop and delivers innovative solutions to our communities. Guided by our relentless focus on our three imperatives (literacy, poverty and social injustice), we will constantly strive to implement the critical initiatives required to achieve our vision and mission. To realize the tremendous potential ways and solutions to help disadvantaged people; the poor, widows, widowers and orphans. In doing this, we will deliver operational excellence in every corner of the organisation and meet or exceed our commitments to the many constituencies we serve. All of our long-term and short-term strategies will be moulded by the set of core values and priorities that are shared by our constituencies. Serving people’s needs is our mission. We prioritize the eight Millennium Development Goals as our major objectives and goals to archive
Aims and Objectives
The focus is necessarily to build strong communities, thus eradicating poverty in South Africa and around the world through emancipation people from poverty and social injustice. The foundation aims at;
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Food Security; means that all people at all-time have physical and economical access to adequate amounts of nutrition, safe and culturally appropriate food. Empowering the poor amongst rural and urban communities, thus contributing to
the emancipation of the community from poverty. Making social changes more visible in implementing
community development. Ensuring high rate of literate young men and woman
through educational empowerment. Improving public recognition of the disadvantaged
communities. Objectives;
To fight against poverty, through assisting, poor individuals, widows widowers, and orphans. To provide better housing for the poor and disadvantaged individuals. To empower literacy through the establishment of libraries and study rooms in communities in need. To provide scholarships/financial aid to the poor for their overall career development. To educate young men and women against social ills e.g. taking drugs and alcohol. To provide disaster relief, and preparedness to people suffering from natural disaster, such as floods, and earthquakes. To raise funds through collections of donations or subscription and other means and invest money or incur expenditure in such manner that shall promote the aims and objective of the foundation. Moreover, our major objective is a work of welfare in relation to poverty and disease or in respect to social groups such as elderly or children. We focus mostly on the following social groups;
Pre-school groups. Primary school groups. Secondary school groups and other disadvantaged tertiary students. Orphans, widows, and widowers. Our area of focus;
We focus on;
(a). Literacy (Education)
Illiteracy is one of the major causes of poverty all over the world. The higher the number of illiterate individuals the higher the rate of poverty. According to national census of 2011, among the South African population, 35.2% black/African, 32.6% of coloured, 61.6% of Indian/Asians and76% of white have completed an education of high school or higher. 41.7% of the population have completed an education of high school or higher, where 8.6% of the population aged 20 years and old has not completed any schooling. Our world, Our people, Our responsibility WEFO Documents
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Moreover, according to (stats SA) or Statistic South Africa there is a strong link between increased level of education and decreased levels of poverty. Our focus upon all this is to improve childhood, youth and elderly literacy. This will be enforced through the following programs in primary schools and high schools;
o Reading competition as known as reading playoffs,
o Highest performing students’ awards. o Provide tuition funds foe university students. o Adult Learning Program (ALP). Social injustice
Social injustice is a relatively concept about the unfairness or injustice of a societal groups in their divisions of rewards and burdens and other incidental inequities based on the user’s worldview of humanity. Working hand in hand with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and Community Based Organisations (CBOs) we address and redress these social inequities in the South African communities. Many remote communities experience the greatest injustice, having being isolated; the government finds it difficult to recognise such communities. Our duty thereof is to ensure that such communities are taken in to cognizance and are recognised by the government. Poverty. Poverty tragedy is the most sensitive situation. Poverty has stricken lot people; some of them sleep in the streets and under bridges. However, the wellspring foundation’s main focus is on the following groups victimized by poverty; the orphans, elderly people who has no source of income, widows and widowers.
