Kidz Hub
What does your company do?
Kidz Hub focuses on the academic and personal development of township children. While giving the immediate unemployed youth within the township the opportunity to be trained to become volunteering tutors.
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What is your biggest success?
Kidz Hub started in my mother's kitchen with 3 children, moved to the garage with 15 children and today we have 90 children attending daily, with a team of 14 young committed people.
The above is all possible because we have parents who believe in the work that we do. We have been able to consistently grow through out the years because of our commitment in seeing a township children being aware of their abilities. We have been able to build a sustainable model that has lead Kidz Hub to be where it is today. Parents value the work that we do and pay an affordable fee monthly which has kept our doors open through out the years without solely relying on external funding.
The above wouldn't have been possible without me being granted opportunities such as receiving a scholarship to be part of the Social Entrepreneurship Program offered at GIBS, receiving another scholarship to study management practice at Henley Business School and my resilient spirit to take all that I have learnt and practice within the organization. To date we have been able to work/ receive support from organizations such as the IDC, L'oreal SA, Barloworld foundation and Eskort. I am very proud of where Kidz Hub is today because we have been able to create a business model that allows our organization to be self sustainable even in dry seasons.
As Kidz Hub is in the community I grew up in, I am proud that since we started over 450 children, 205 young people and almost 300 households have been positively impacted by Kidz Hub
What has been your biggest hurdle?
Securing long term sustainable funding has been our greatest hurdle. Retaining our team with the money that we charge our beneficiaries has also been our challenge but we are grateful to our consistent paying parents as we are able to at least provide travelling stipends.
We are currently working on strengthening our stakeholder engagement and getting ourselves out there, however being under staffed at the management level limits our activity.
