Winter School Camp
East Rand GAUTENG. Reiger Park, Boksburg
About Us
1,600+
Families Annually
17 Years
Operational Excellence
90%
Retention & Completion Rate
100+
Youth Leaders Developed
Founded in 2009 in Reiger Park, Boksburg, with a clear mandate: to interrupt cycles of limitation by creating platforms where children can see, experience, and pursue a future beyond their circumstances.
For 17 years, TCTF has remained rooted in community while expanding its reach and measurable impact. What began as a small initiative serving 60 children has grown into a structured intervention platform reaching over 1600 children and families annually.
We are not an initiative. We are infrastructure.
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17 Years of Operational Credibility
A sustained, community-rooted track record of delivering structured programmes with consistency and measurable results. -
Strong Governance & Compliance Framework
Registered with the Department of Social Development and fully Section 18A tax compliant, ensuring accountability, transparency, and responsible fund management. -
Direct Access to High-Impact Beneficiaries
Deeply embedded in Reiger Park, enabling targeted interventions where they are most needed — with immediate community reach and trust. -
Demonstrated Measurable Outcomes
High programme retention rates, scaled beneficiary growth, and proven education-support interventions that reduce vulnerability and strengthen youth development. -
Strategic Brand Visibility & CSI Alignment
Meaningful brand integration opportunities across high-impact community initiatives aligned with poverty alleviation, youth development, and education priorities. -
Structured Employee Engagement Opportunities
Professionally coordinated volunteering and Mandela Day activation opportunities that provide tangible staff involvement and measurable social contribution. -
National Recognition
Featured on E-TV’s South African Heroes, affirming the credibility and community significance of our work.
MISSION
To design and implement structured, measurable programs that provide:
- Academic support and retention
- Leadership and skills development
- Mental health awareness and intervention
- Social relief for vulnerable households
VISION
To become a fully resourced community support hub delivering integrated social relief, educational advancement, leadership development, and psychosocial support to vulnerable children and families.
VALUES
Our Shard Values:
Our value framework ensures that every program we deliver
carries measurable significance, produces tangible impact,
builds enduring legacy, and is executed with disciplined
consistency — resulting in meaningful and sustained behavioural
change.
Our Values:
S.I.L.C - Significance. Impact. Legacy. Consistency.
Founder's story
Jeanne Lee Blaauw
Founder & CEO | The Children Their Faces
I began with conviction, not capital — and with a clear belief that environment should inform potential, not limitation. I was not exposed to resources and networks but rather a community defined by crime statistics, unemployment, and scarcity — I had to decide, become a product your circumstances or build an alternative.
Raised in Reiger Park, a community often making headlines for violence, I grew up understanding risk, fear, and the consequences of limited choices. I also understood something else — that if young people are not given vision, structure, and exposure, life will decide their trajectory for them.
At 23 years old, with R3,000 in my savings and no institutional backing, I founded The Children Their Faces (TCTF) in my mother’s yard. There were no blueprint and no funding pipeline — only conviction and a clear mandate: to build an alternative and teach, from lived experience, how to navigate peer pressure, overcome environmental limitations, and deliberately choose a different path.
My mother was my first champion. When resources were limited and that R3,000 could have addressed many practical needs at home, she chose vision over comfort. Mom worked alongside me, validated the calling on my life, and endorsed the belief that if we were going to do this, we would do it wholeheartedly. That decision shaped the foundation of TCTF. If I could build this with R3,000 and conviction, imagine what we can accomplish with strategic investment.
Your investment does not disappear into goodwill — it translates into structured programmes, measurable impact, and visible change in one of Gauteng’s most vulnerable communities. We all had to start somewhere. I started in my mother’s backyard. Seventeen years later, we are still standing — and ready to scale.
