Durban North NPO reflects on their year’s work at AGM

DURBAN North based NPO, the Domino Foundation reflected on a year’s work at their annual general meeting recently.

Shaun Tait, Domino’s CEO said the foundation attracted investments of R11,054 million raised from over 200 donors and 10,000 items donated. This funded operations and programmes aimed at education, nutrition and social justice.

Tait said the Foundations’s Early Childhood Development Programme reached 813 beneficiaries while a 90 per cent pass rate was achieved by the ten tertiary students on the Skills Development Programme. He added that the Nutrition Programme produced just under 1,3 million meals to feed 9,529 daily.

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“We have grown significantly. Internally, we have strategically expanded our organisational capacity in our operational areas of Volunteers and Research and Evaluation,” he said.

Domino’s Marketing Storyteller, Karen Brokensha invited the community to become part of the ‘domino effect’.

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“Let us encourage you to invest in something that inspires and fulfils you, be it the plight of abandoned children, supporting education at various stages, value of nutrition, skills development, vulnerable women or disaster response. Make a difference because an individual and community changed is ultimately how we will see our nation transformed for good,” she said.

Karen can be contacted on 031 563 9605 or karen@domino.org.za.

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