Founder of the CEO SleepOut visits ASHA Trust
JOBURG – CEO SleepOut founder,. Bernard Fehon visited one of the main beneficiaries of the initiative, the ASHA Trust.
To prepare for Sun International’s CEO SleepOut to be held on Nelson Mandela Bridge, Bernard Fehon, founder and continuing patron of the initiative, visited one of the primary beneficiaries of the CEO SleepOut, ASHA Trust.
ASHA Trust helps women who form informal creches to develop their establishments and improve their money management skills, as well as to assist these women to become licensed owners and operators of their centres so that they can receive a daily stipend of R15 per child from the government.
On his visit to ASHA Trust, Fehon was taken by some of the its members to three of the Trust’s daycare and preschool centres in Bram Fischerville in Soweto.
Many of the centres start out with as few as one child under their care, and some have expanded to take care of as many as 92 children. Every ASHA Trust centre has the same nutritional menu and the same schedule which includes breakfast, lunch, snacks, time outside and a nap. One of the centre’s that visited even boards children whose parents may work overnight.
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Fehon expressed his excitement about visiting the centres, “This is great because it is a trip with a purpose,” he said. “We get to meet the real people that this money will go towards helping.”
Sun International’s CEO SleepOut is set to take place on 28 July.
Details: For more information on the ASHA Trust, visit www.ashatrust.com and for more information on Sun International’s CEO SleepOut, visit www.theceosleepoutza.co.za.
