Belly2Brain NPC
What does your company do?
Why was Belly2Brain born:
We all talk about educating our future generation - but how do you educate:
a) A hungry child
b) A girl child who misses school because of her period or unprotected sex
c) Boys who feel lost without a rudder do the to focus on woman empowerment and lacking male role
models
Our vision for Belly2Brain is to raise monthly annuity income to facilitate:
a) Do school activations with road shows to:
• Educate and provide mentorship to 3 schools (1 in the Pretoria district / 1 in the Krugersdorp Suburbs / 1 in the Northern Suburbs) with facilities for breakfast and lunch.
• Providing sustainability by teaching the schools to build veggie gardens with eco bricks - which encourages recycling and providing for yourself.
• Providing menstrual cups / sanitary ware to the girls and educating them about sexual safety and empowerment as well as teaching the boys about the beauty of a woman’s body and encouraging them to provide the girls with dignity when they have their period.
b) Activating the Boys to Men Safe House
• Provide a home in the Krugersdorp / Westrand area that can house 12 boys with a cottage on the property for the house mother or father
• A facility for destitute boys to be homed, schooled and mentored to become leaders in our community
• We already have several men who are business owners in different industries to who agreed to have mentorship days in their businesses to expose the boys to their industries – workshop days – where they boys will be able to experience industries from Financial Services to Motor Mechanics, Gyms, IT Companies, etc.
Currently we feed and minister monthly to 150 souls in Appelpark in Krugersdorp - Provide spending power to our community with our charity shop in Krugersdorp - assist with Adhoc enquiries as and when the arrive, facilitate various fundraising projects and speaking engagements to create awareness.
What is your biggest success?
Annual Sandwich Day Achievement
2024 - 16,000 Peanut Butter and Jam Sandwiches
2023 - 13,500
2022 - 12,000
2021 - 7,000
Annual Blessing Bags - Children receive a gift, clothing and stationery
Handbags of Hope - Being able to bless woman and children who have been victims of GBV
Charity Shop - being able to provide the community with spending power (This accolade I place fully to God who gave our Jacolene Mentz the vision)
What has been your biggest hurdle?
Funding
Legalities - there is plenty of red tape to jump through before we can launch the safe house
Time - we are all fully employed - self employed - so being able to give our full attention to our vision becomes a challenge