Child Welfare faces financial difficulties to sustain its services

The local child welfare recently held its 22nd AGM at the Old Boksburg Town Hall building.

November 11, 2019

Fanie Mthupha 1 minute read

This team at Boksburg Child Welfare remains committed to fulfilling their necessary roles in ensuring that the NPO continues to deliver services to communities.

Boksburg Child Welfare is going through financial difficulties which, according to management, stem from the organisation’s over indebtedness prior to the year 2016.

Giving feedback on the organisation’s operations during the 2018/2019 financial year, the Boksburg Child Welfare chairperson, Dorry Naidoo, said the organisation was still recovering financially and that other challenges faced by the organisation included labour issues and administrative problems.

Naidoo, however, thanked the staff members who remained committed to fulfilling their necessary roles in ensuring that the organisation continued to deliver services to communities.

Providing the financial report for the year, the treasurer, Scott Williams, noted that the organisation receives funding from the Gauteng Department of Social Development (DSD) and other donors, but funding is prescribed and the organisation can only spend money on what the funders prescribe in the service level agreement.

He also provided a breakdown of expenditure and made clear note to the fact that the organisation was notified this year that operational payments were outstanding for the year 2013.

“This is of great concern as the current board was not in position during this period. But Boksburg Child Welfare would like to thank all donors and funders for their support during the previous financial year as this made the operations of the organisation run much smoother,” he said.

Meanwhile, the organisation’s director, Vanessa Naidoo-Pillay, discussed the various programmes conducted by the organisation and noted that the following beneficiaries were serviced: