As a registered child care facility the main source of income to the organization is a monthly per capita head subsidy. Others sources of funding include donations from appeals, funding for special projects, interest from investments and specific annual fundraising events.

The budget for expenses for 2005/2006 is R 2 386 928-00. The budgeted income is R 1 786 735-00, this leaves us with a shortfall of R 600 193-00 this financial year.

At this time of the year our main expense is the purchasing of summer clothing for the 74 children and young people in 2 of our residential programmes. In addition in order to ensure that as many children and young people as possible are able to spend some time with family and community over the Christmas holidays, we need to source food parcels to provide relief to families who are struggling financially. We find that without this support families are unable to care adequately for their children and hence some children then have to spend the entire holiday period with no time spent with family.