Mission & purpose
Our work stretches across three of South Africa’s nine provinces – Gauteng, Mpumalanga and North West – focusing on education, health and welfare and community development through training. BST’s mission is to overcome the social, economic and educational legacy of apartheid with the aim of providing support and help to the most severely disadvantaged communities.
To date the Trust has enabled thousands of young people to achieve further education and pre-school care; hundreds of children are supported to stay in school when their parents become too ill to work, or when they are orphaned. Hundreds of families receive home based care, support with food gardens, and thousands more are provided with HIV/AIDS education and support.
Over the last three years alone, more than 20,000 orphans have received care, support and educational opportunities that would not have existed without our local partners using the funds BST supporters work hard to raise year on year.