Masizame Child Development
fREE FROM VIOLENCE
FREE FROM FEAR
With your help we can change young lives for the better.
Every donation helps support vulnerable young children and point their lives in a new and brighter direction
about us
How it all started
One afternoon our founder Lesley Myburgh found three children living in a cardboard box on the side of the road…
Who we are
Meet our CEO, The members of our board of directors; and most importantly the incredible men and woman who are on the ground doing life-changing work…
What we do
Masizame is a registered Child Protection Organisation (CPO) that delivers a comprehensive and synergistic range of PEI services, being Prevention, Early Intervention in addition to our Statutory Care residential programme…


















So far we helped
Our name:
Masizame...
Means ‘let’s try’ in Xhosa. The perfect name for a charity that right from the beginning has tried to help no matter the odds.
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How it came to be
Founder Lesley Myburgh told some of the original children of Masizame that they had a week to think of a name for their new home. They came back the next day and told her ‘“we’ve got a name”. And thus Masizame was christened
