Promiseland Trust

Our free Montessori school serves 100 children aged 3–6, providing a solid educational foundation, nutritious meals, and school readiness support, including uniforms and supplies. We operate a daily soup kitchen feeding over 450 children and run a School Feeding Project that distributes over 7,170 sandwiches weekly to partner schools.

We support more than 100 children in weekly homework classes and offer computer literacy, incentives for academic performance, and essential resources like school shoes and stationery. Our extracurricular programs—chess, girls’ club, and holiday activities—encourage personal growth, creativity, and self-esteem.

Promiseland fosters strong community partnerships, shares resources with like-minded organizations, and provides full transparency through annual audits and tax certificates. With 15 dedicated staff, we provide long-term, consistent support from preschool through adolescence, creating real opportunities for success and sustainable change in the lives of children most in need.

Promiseland has been a beacon of hope and transformation for vulnerable children and their families in our community. Since our inception in 2009, we have dedicated ourselves to creating a safe, nurturing environment. As we look ahead to 2025, we invite you to partner with us to continue our impact and bring even greater change to those who need it most.

Our Vision for 2025

• Enrich Early Childhood Development (ECD): Our five classrooms have a total of 100 children attending our free Montessori school with a total of 20 graduates last year entering mainstream government schools this year. Each child enters our school at the tender age of 3 and graduate by the age of 6 years with a firm foundation to excel the rest of their school career.

Each child receives their first complete uniform for the school in which they are accepted, all the necessary stationery and a schoolbag. Most of these kids will continue eating at our soup kitchen daily and receive a breaktime sandwich.

At Promiseland Montessori, we are committed to the well-being and development of our learners, starting with their nutrition. Each day begins with a warm serving of oats porridge in the morning, ensuring children have the energy to focus on their activities. For lunch, served at 11:00, we encourage parents to take responsibility by providing a lunch pack for their children, fostering a sense of shared responsibility and partnership. For children who come without a lunch pack, we provide peanut butter sandwiches to ensure no child goes hungry.

On Fridays, we promote nutrition by serving boiled eggs and fresh fruit. Recognizing the importance of balanced, cooked meals for growth and development, we have decided to introduce a new initiative this year. Twice a week, we will prepare and serve a hot, nutritious meal to our 100 school children, supporting their physical and cognitive development while fostering a nurturing and collaborative environment.

• Continue our Feeding Projects – our Soup Kitchen serve nutritious meals to over 350 children daily and we support our partner primary schools in providing breaktime sandwiches to 7170 students weekly with our School Feeding Project, ensuring they had the energy and nutrition needed to focus on their education.

Our school feeding scheme distributed breaktime sandwiches:

o 2022: 245,500 units

o 2023: 250,230 units

o 2024: 273,771 units

For the first time since COVID-19, we were able to provide canned fish throughout the entire year twice a week, with 797 tins distributed weekly, while we further contributed 1,980 jars of 400g peanut butter and 624 cans of 900g jam during 2024 for Fridays.

Increased bread Costs: Rising prices have put a strain on our School Feeding Project budget, with a shortfall of N$43 550 projected for 2025.

• Enhance Educational Support through our homework and afternoon classes: As we continue with access to project assistance for students and homework support for 100 children per week, supplies are essential, e.g.: school materials, including uniforms and stationery, to those in need. Our homework class,

facilitated by 2 dedicated German volunteers from the Red Cross and 2 teachers, helped multiple students improve their academic performance.

We also run an incentive based program where kids earn a stationery when they hand in the reports and test results, motivating them to work hard to improve their education. All these kids eat at the soup kitchen after school and attend homework class from 14h00 until 16h00 Mon-Thu while we offer free computer classes every Friday to further empower the children and give them access to technology, they don’t have at home but inevitably will use some day.

Due to a donation received, we blessed top performing students with a trip to the Logos Hope, and distributed books worth N$6,800 between our ECD classrooms and recognized 20 top-performing students who could all purchase books for them to keep and call their own.

Majority of kids who struggle academically is purely because they struggle with speaking, reading and writing English and once this challenge is overcome, kids’ overall marks increase as we monitor their reports and test results. This increases their confidence and drives them to do even better.

School Shoes Initiative: This year, our goal is to specifically focus on school shoes to support all the children in need. Through our second-hand school clothes project, we can manage the rest of the uniform, but school shoes remain a major challenge as they are costly. Cheaper brands often don’t last long, especially since kids wear the shoes every day, all day, and usually don’t own any other pair. Your support can help provide durable shoes to these children, ensuring comfort and dignity in their daily lives.

Majority of students own one set of school clothes they wear every day.

• Empower Through Extracurricular Activities: Strengthen our chess club, girls’ club, and holiday programs to provide constructive and enriching activities for our youth while keeping them off the streets.

• Sustain Community Partnerships: Collaborate with local schools and organizations to ensure a collective approach to addressing the needs of our community and helping each other. Sunshine centre continues to receive all our bread orders, and we share our fish donation with Kidz haven. Promiseland also adopted two toddlers from Kidz Haven years ago, now aged 17 and 19. Both received full educational support and was placed with a foster mother while Promiseland covered all their living expenses, provided emotional support and guide them into adulthood.

Challenges and Needs Despite our successes, we face significant challenges in meeting the growing demand for our services as we rely heavily on private funding. While our trustees run the Promiseland Trust on a charitable basis, we have a team of 15 permanent employees, and because all our services are for free, our only other income besides donations are raised through fundraisers.

• We successfully raised N$41,331 during our 2024 Bingo fundraiser and N$50 266 at our annual golf event.

• Infrastructure Upgrades: Expanding and upgrading classrooms from 3 to 5 showcase our dedication and commitment to spend funds purposefully, reaching the goals as set out by the trust.

• Farming project at Tutaleni Primary School will require new netting to protect the greenhouse from sand and pests, estimated budget N$7500.

Why Partner With Promiseland? Promiseland stands out for its:

• Transparency: Annual audits are published on our website, ensuring accountability for every donation.

• Dedication: Our team of staff and volunteers works tirelessly to support the most vulnerable in our community.

• Proven Impact: Our programs consistently achieve measurable results, improving the lives of hundreds of children each year.

• Community Trust: Over the years, we’ve built strong relationships with local and international partners who continue to support our mission.

• Tax certification: Promiseland can issue tax certificates to collaborate CSR responsibility that is beneficial to donator tax year.

What enables us to do impactful work is our focus on education which goes hand in hand with food, while we lay the foundation for our young Montessori learners, we continue to support them and many others through out their school career. Its not just once off support, we pull them through our various projects which are all connected over long-term, and they have a better chance to success