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Annual Review 2024

Afrika Tikkun is a South African non-profit delivering a 30-year Cradle-to-Career 360° model across township communities. Their 2024 Annual Review highlights a 90% Matric pass rate — beating the national average by over 2% — with 252 distinctions across 459 students. Active across 6 centres in Alexandra, Diepsloot, Orange Farm, Braamfontein, Durban and Mfuleni, the organisation supports approximately 20,000 young people annually through education, health, nutrition and employment pathways.

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About

Early Childhood Development (ages 1–6), Ignite after-school programme (7–18), Skills Development & Placement (18–24), health services, nutrition, family psychosocial support, bursaries, career readiness

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 90% Matric pass rate in 2024 — outperforming the national average by more than 2%
Key Metric 2 61% Bachelor's admissions rate; 252 distinctions across 459 Matric students
Key Metric 3 ~20,000 children, youth and families impacted annually across 6 township centres

Key Outcomes

  • Matric Class of 2024 achieves 90% pass rate across Alexandra, Diepsloot, Orange Farm, Braamfontein and Mfuleni centres
  • Cradle-to-Career 360° model sustained across 30 years since founding in 1994; centres operating in Johannesburg and Cape Town townships
  • Top Achievers Awards ceremony held February 2025; bursary programme enabling graduates to access higher education and the workforce

Geography

International

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
440,000+ young people aged 4-18 active members across 7,000 Groups
Key Metric 2
140,000 volunteers supporting the movement across the UK
Key Metric 3
373 Sections opened or re-energised in England between April 2024 and March 2025
0.3% overall growth in young people (ages 4-18), driven by 31% increase in Squirrel Scouts (5,200 young people)
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
55,000 foster carers and 370 fostering service providers as members across the UK
Key Metric 2
45 new Fostering Friendly Employers recruited, bringing the scheme to over 680,000 employees across the UK
Key Metric 3
95 Fostering Wellbeing Pioneers in Wales offering peer support and mentoring to fellow foster carers
191 children and young people engaged in outdoor adventure weeks through the Fostering Attainment and Achievement programme in Northern Ireland
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
91,000 young people supported across 24 countries in 2024/25, including 67,368 in the UK
Key Metric 2
Over 70% of the 25,500 young people who completed Employment and Enterprise programmes achieved a positive outcome
Key Metric 3
Education programmes engaged 63,000 young people (69% of the total), the largest share of delivery
In the UK, 71% of Employment and Enterprise completers achieved a positive outcome, including 39% into employment or self-employment
Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
851 students supported through the In2STEM programme in 2024, from 2,036 applications
Key Metric 2
27,447 hours of in-person STEM placement experience provided to participants
Key Metric 3
94% of participants know what it means to work in STEM after the programme, up from 69% beforehand
97% of alumni who applied to university were successfully offered a place, based on UCAS data from 1,760 alumni