The Topsy Foundation was established in 2000 with seed funding from the Rufford Foundation and pro bono administrative support from Ogilvy. The Foundation is a fully registered and internationally respected non-profit company and public benefit organisation. Topsy opened its doors in 2001, providing care to communities in some of the most underserviced rural areas of Mpumalanga and is the only NGO in the region. In the past 18 years, Topsy has made a significant impact on these communities, addressing HIV / Aids and extreme poverty through an effective, multi-faceted approach. Topsy's current mission is to provide communities with the support and tools needed to raise happy, healthy and capable children. The Foundation established its Early Childhood Development programme in 2014, which focuses on five key pillars: stimulation and early learning, psycho-social support, nutritional education and support, health screening and monitoring, and caregiver and parental skills...

Here in Africa we welcome opportunity. We greet friends and strangers alike with a purposeful, well-meaning ‘hello’ in all the languages of our colourful continent. In much the same way as Africans, we are resolute in our determination to show the disease of Malaria that it is no longer welcome on our continent. It is our wish and our will to say ‘Goodbye Malaria’ in as many colourful languages and by as many engaging means as is necessary to rid us of Malaria once and for all.