IAHET launches annual Bibi’s Kitchen Fun Walk
The Imam Abdullah Haron Education Trust (IAHET) will be hosting our inaugural Bibi’s Kitchen 6km Family Fun Walk on 30 September 2018 in what is both a fund-raising as well as a marketing exercise.
The Bibi’s Kitchen Family Fun Walk, which will very poignantly, be routed along Imam Haron Rd in Lansdowne, will raise funds for our Early Childhood Development (ECD) programme as well as marketing our organization to the broader community of the Western Cape.
Through community participation the Bibi’s Kitchen Family Fun Walk offers the opportunity to increase public awareness of the Imam and his legacy as well as exposing the community to the work of the Trust thereby expanding our footprint.
We also aim to raise the profile of the late Imam Abdullah Haron, especially to the younger generation, who may not be aware of his role in the liberation struggle through working in marginalized communities that culminated in him making the ultimate sacrifice on 27 September 1969.
Our ECD programme is run in partnership with well-established and highly respected agencies – Grassroots Educare Trust (GET), the Foundation for Community Work (FCW) and the Centre for Early Childhood Development (CECD), who have a combined total of 120 years of experience in the field.
The agencies, which are all NGOs, work in seriously under-resourced areas like Langa, Belhar, Valhalla Park and the Barcelona informal settlement in Gugulethu where they provide much-needed ECD services to those communities.
We are also planning to extend the programme to Mitchells Plain, Retreat, Bridgetown, the Vygieskraal informal settlement and the West Coast fishing village of St Helena Bay.
To date, we have raised and spent – funds are raised for specific projects – more than R2 million on providing programmes to over 1 200 children in these areas. More than 600 parents have already been trained in ECD Workshops that have empowered them to be of greater educational benefit to their young children.
Our focus on ECD is motivated by international research which has shown that if a child is exposed to educational opportunities during the period between birth and six years he/she will be developed for life.
Presently 66% of children in South Africa do not receive any kind of early childhood stimulation. Bearing this in mind, and also having identified this as an area where the biggest impact could be made, the IAHET resolved to make this the focus of our activities.
The starter’s gun will be fired at 8am on Sunday, 30 September 2018 from the premises of Islamia College, Imam Haron Rd, Lansdowne.
The entry fee is R35 per person and online entries may be completed at Webtickets.co.za or at Pick n Pay stores. Manual entries may be obtained from Bibi’s Kitchen, Broad Rd Wynberg. Closing date for entries is Sunday, 23 September 2018.
