children of success
Welcome to the digital home of Children of Sucess (also known as COS). We are a South African NPO that aims to reduce poverty.
The organisation primarily aims to reduce poverty through the fight against teenage pregnancy by equipping the youth with essential soft skills – hence its slogan, “achieve before you conceive”. Why fight teenage pregnancy as means to reduce poverty? Because 95% of teenage births happen in low-to-middle income households thus perpetuating the never ending cycle of poverty.
Secondarily, but equally important, COS aims to reduce poverty through the promotion of financial literacy.
Our tools of change include but are not limited to seminars, workshops and training programmes which mainly address teenage pregnancy, financial education and leadership.
Our services
Since its launch in 2014, Children of Success touches 15000 lives per year. The organisation primarily impacts the youth aged 14 to 22 years of age, who are based in the township and rural areas. However, the organisation does extend its reach to rural community members of various ages.
The main offerings of the organisation are:
Educational seminars that mainly cover teenage pregnancy, financial literacy, and leadership. Workshops that are focused on sexual education, financial education and skills development.Provision of educational material focused on education, sexual health, financial education and entrepreneurship.
Secondary offerings are:
The provision of food, sanitary wear and clothing to charitable organisations, particularly orphanages.
About us
Children of Success, widely known as COS, was launched with the aim of alleviating poverty by reducing the plight of teenage pregnancy through equipping the youth with essential soft and hard skills – hence its slogan, “achieve before you conceive”.
Vision:
Our vision is to create a generation of individuals that achieve before they conceive – a generation that is set in the thinking that the prosperity of this country is dependent on their own individual actions above all else.
Mission:
Children of Success aims to utilise the power of personal development measures such as seminars , workshops and talent development platforms to create a new type of economic and social participant - one that will have a meaningful contribution to the prosperity of South Africa and Africa as a whole.
Here is a list of our major projects:
FLASHMOB
In the year 2013, Children of Success planned and executed a major flashmob at the mall in Alexandra township where the youth of the township obtained a chance to showcase their skills while creating awareness about teenage pregnancy.
RURAL & TOWNSHIP OUTREACHES
COS entered into a partnership with the JSE listed company, York Timbers. As part of their enterprise development programme as well as their CSI initiative, York Timbers made a financial donation to COS that was used to educate the rural communities and schools around the Sabie and Pilgrim's Rest areas. In total, 1324 lives were directly impacted through educational seminars. This initiative also included partnerships with the Mpumalanga division of LoveLife and GRIP as well as Sabie SAPS and renowned HIV/AIDS awareness speaker, Lebogang Motsumi.
York Timbers also funded a series of workshops at Memezile Secondary School and Pilgrim's Rest Secondary School. These workshops equipped the matric learners with financial literacy knowledge and entrepreneurial skills that they required in order create a technological innovation that is commercially viable and has social impact. The learners created groups and presented their incredible ideas to COS and York Timbers. They all received prizes for their participation. The competition was covered by GPS News.
EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS
COS conducts continuous educational workshops at high schools and SOS Children's Villages, with special focus on the one located in Kamagugu township. These workshops cover sexual education as well as financial education.
CAMPAIGNS
Children of Success runs social media campaigns in order to extend our reach beyond our primary target audience. These make use of user-generated content and have yielded great results thus far. Here is a list of the campaigns:
In 2014, COS ran #COS_Talks, a teenage pregnancy limited series that was aired on Youtube. Episodes are available hereIn 2015, a teenage pregnancy awareness campaign with the hashtag #Achieveb4uconceive, ran on Instagram and as a performing arts concert hosted in Mbombela. In 2019, a financial literacy campaign with the hashtag #BeFinanciallyLit ran on Instagram. Business giants such as EY Africa CEO, Ajen Sita and ETDP SETA CFO, Nonhlanhla Mona also contributed content to the campaign.
"CHANGE A LIFE IN 30 MINUTES"
In the aim to impact at least 15000 lives per year, COS visits many highschools in the townships and rural areas around Mpumalanga and Gauteng. These outreaches take place in the form of 30 minute talks that mainly cover teenage pregnancy, financial literacy and leadership. Apart from its own speakers, COS normally seeks out the public speaking services of young leaders in the community. In the past, outstanding young people such as Lebo Malope, Lebo Motsumi, Mfundo Nyambi and many others have delivered talks during these outreaches.
At COS, we often say that: "we do it for the cause (spelt COS), not the applause" so we tend to shy away from the lime-light. However, here is an article written about us.
*A BIG THANK YOU to the great sponsors and partners that have assisted us in creating a better world thus far:
Contact
We are always looking for communities/schools that we can assist, partners that we can change the world with and sponsors that can assist us in making the world a better place so please contact us.
Tel: +27794729022/+27603607415