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Funding Available For Ventures Focused On Positive Parenting By South African Fathers

Staff WriterBy Staff Writer2021-08-234 Comments2 Mins Read
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South African innovation catalyst and investment platform, Innovation Edge, has launched a call for bold solutions to increase positive involvement by South African fathers and father figures in the early years of their children’s lives.

Selected applicants will be supported to pitch their solutions to the Innovation Edge Investment Committee. Successful ventures will receive up to R1.3 million each in grant funding, strategic coaching, customised operational support and connections to social capital. The deadline for submissions is 30 September 2021.

Research[1] shows that when a child has an active and positive father or father figure in their lives, they benefit in numerous ways. Better performance at school, the likelihood of stable employment and better mental health are all outcomes that are influenced by a child’s sense of closeness to a father or father figure. This is true irrespective of whether the father lives in the house with the child. This is because it is the involvement, not the co-habitation that plays a vital role in the child’s wellbeing.

Sadly, many young children in South Africa grow up without the benefit of a dependable, consistent and motivated male caregiver. Reasons for the absence of proactive fathering are numerous and complex. Barriers include social and cultural norms, unemployment and the inability to provide financially, prohibitive parental leave policies, and unwelcoming health sector institutions – particularly in the critical first 1000 days of life period. In addition, many fathers have themselves not received adequate care and support from their fathers during childhood.

Innovation Edge, an impact-first investor focused on solving early childhood challenges in South Africa, wants to support solutions that aim to overcome these barriers. Their call, launched on 23 August and running until 30 September, is for innovative solutions that will result in quality father[2]-child relationships with a focus on the early years of a child’s life (0 to 6 years.) They welcome submissions from individual innovators, registered non-profit and for profit social enterprises in South Africa.

For more information, please see the detailed brief here, sign up here for a virtual briefing session on 30 Aug or visit their website here to submit an application.

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  1. Pingback: Funding Available For Ventures Focused On Positive Parenting By South African Fathers – Business News Press

  2. Dumisani on 2021-08-25 11:11

    I think this a very good initiative, fatherhood programmes are needed is South Africa. We have a serious challenge in our country of children more especially boys who grew up without their fathers. Most of these children are very angry, abusing substances, and some of them has been neglecting and abandoned their children as well. We need to start fatherhood programmes from a very early stage where we will introduce these programmes in our schools and even in our homes. We have an increasing volume of men who rape, kill and abusing little girls and women due to the anger of growing up without father figures and role models who are their fathers.

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  3. DR R.R MBAMBISA on 2021-09-28 14:58

    This is a proactive venture to prevent the social ills that are a problem in our nation .Research has shown that most of the problems like teenage pregnancy,crime , substance abuse come from fatherlessness

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  4. Khuthala Malundana on 2021-09-30 15:37

    Yes that is true but I have a question. Are the fathers given a chance

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