Projects
Ongoing Projects
City At Peace (Central Group)
City at Peace-Cape Town began its pilot program in July 2005. A total number of fifty youths aged 15-24 years will be involved in the project, recruited from various schools, community centers, churches and non-profit organizations from throughout Cape Town’s suburbs and townships.
GOLD Peer Education Development Agency
GOLD’s core strategy involves the development and facilitation of the GoLD peer education adolescent model within selected communities in the sub-Saharan region. The GoLD (Generation of Leaders Discovered) peer education model is the only approach that combines the objectives of the three sectors within one youth development strategy to positively impact community social norms by using young people as the catalyst for change.
PEBBLES PROJECT
The Pebbles Project aims to enrich the lives of children with special educational needs, and those whose lives are affected by negatively by alcohol abuse within the family or community, through an integrated community support and training network.
TeachOut
TeachOut is an tutoring project which aims to support the educational development of learners from Cape Town's previously disadvantaged secondary schools.
Learn To Earn
The LTE Executive have taken a decision to look at moving the LTE office (HQ) to the Southern Suburbs. In this move we are hoping that we can find a friendly host company that has some office space available to allow LTE use of.
MSC Outreach
MSC Outreach would like to launch a community outreach project to offer outdoor adventure opportunities and basic outdoor skills training to small groups of township youth of around 13 - 15 years. The program is very much in its embryonic stages but they have put together a basic proposal draft to provide an idea of how this project may run.
RAINN
This is a request, on behalf of the Stellenbosch Small Farm Holdings Trust (the Trust), for the acquisition of a notebook computer and related items. The purpose of the equipment would be to aid the business operations of the Trust.
PHILLIPI CRECHE
The SWEEETS group has identified a creche in Philippi that cares for 55 kids that we are going to support over the long term. We visited last week and discovered that their needs are VAST and IMMEDIATE.
BOKKEMANSKLOOF
Elza-lynne Kruger of Somerset West heard about this and decided to try to help by starting a 'sewing appeal' to replace Neliswas equipment.The idea was not just to help Neliswa Qutu to get her business up and running again but to help her to train other women in Kyalitsha to set up home sewing industries.
Anchors Away Village
Anchors Away Village in Simons Town is a non-profit that assists people with Downs Syndrome. They battle away each year trying to raise money via a few local volunteers and via work that the Downsfolk do for a few industries.The type of things they do is fill envelopes for mail shots, they fill bottles with gams for the Scratch Patch etc. and all at a very reasonable price. There are plans to try get an accomodation village together over time, and help is required to do so.
CITY OF PEACE
City at Peace - Cape Town is a youth development organisation that uses the performing arts to teach a diverse group of young people about cross-cultural understanding, non-violent conflict resolution and leadership for social change.
BANDI BIKO
A request for funding to help the church send two young soccer players from disadvantaged communities on a soccer mission tour to the Diocese of York in the UK.
GOEDGEDACHT
Annie and Peter Templeton run a farm and they have built a huge amount of social projects around it.
SA RIDING FOR THE DISABLED ASSOCIATION
200 children from eleven different special education schools attend riding every week at the SARDA (South African Riding for the Disabled) Centre in Constantia. Wheel chairs are left empty, crutches and sticks are forgotten, therapy on the back of a warm kind pony is the finest kind there is.
SA YOUTH FEDERATION
The Youth Federation is in a process of registration. Our strong feeling is that it would be good to have a legal capacity within its board.
The South African Youth Federation is a network of autonomous, community based youth formations involved in activities like: sport, recreation, arts, culture, music, HIV/IDS issues, environmental issues, community development issues, etc, bonded together by a common purpose of striving towards youth development and empowerment through practicing daily savings, loans and withdrawals.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit Christian housing organisation. Habitat works in partnership with people everywhere to develop communities by building simple, decent and affordable houses.
FEED YOUR NEED TO SHARE
We have launched our Feed Your Need 2 Share Campaign, the first major fundraising campaign. There are a number of simple things that you can do to help us make this campaign a success.
SAEP (South African Education and Environment Project)
Most of the legal barriers to personal development have been removed with the end of apartheid, yet opportunities to learn and obtain meaningful employment remain sorely lacking.
MaAfrika Tikkun
MaAfrika Tikkun’s strategic plan is being unveiled at a time when the landscape of making a meaningful difference has been reshaped. It is active and constructive involvement in community development and service.
CASE: Community Action towards a Safer Environment
CASE have many needs and some are specific to different activities in the year. For example, there is a team of 18 youth leaders who help facilitate a children's lifeskills programme. These youths are between the ages of 16-19yrs, and would like to go on regular outings. Another example is CASE Kids Club and Youth Arts Projects which continuously requires stationary, arts materials and toys.
Durbanville Schools Foundation
This Foundation was formed to assist 9 farm schools just outside Durbanville. They are typical of the poverty stricken schools around the country where the children are likely to drop out before matric as a result of a whole range of factors, part school related, part family related. The Foundation is involved in a large number of projects, some of which require funding, and others where we simply facilitate and advise.
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOUTH AFRICA (BBBSSA)
BBBSSA is a mentoring programme that matches youth in need with carefully selected and trained adult volunteers in one-to-one relationships that help them maximize their potential.
HOME OF HOPE
The Home of Hope - charity was set up last year by a very brave lady in our community that opened her home to abused and abandoned children - and has since set up a interim safe house for these babies 0 - 36 months.
At the moment the Home of Hope is running from rented accommodation - the hopes and ambitions for this project is - to create a private cluster home/school type environment – for the various age groups of children. Giving these children, who are taken away from their families due to abuse, neglect, HIV, adoption a place in the community, where they can be housed for interim periods.
Niall Mellon Townships Initiative
The Niall Mellon Townships Initiative is recruiting 300 volunteers mainly from Ireland and elsewhere in Europe this year. They will each have to raise 4,000 euros and give up a week of their annual leave to make the trip to South Africa to build decent homes for the disadvantaged. This year’s trip will take place from Saturday 18th of November until the 25th. We hope to build at least fifty homes during this week.
Noncedo Educare (Nkosi Group)
Nkosi is continuing to support Noncedo Educare in Philippi in partnership with SAEP (South African Education & Environment Project).
Khayamandi and Simameleni (HBB Group)
A quick run down of HBB JDI activities...
Noluthando Educare (Sweeets Group)
There are volunteers in the country at the moment who can do the necessary building and DIY work at Noluthando, and our group, Sweeets has allocated money towards this.
LEAP Science & Maths School
LEAP represents a solution to one of South Africa's key problems; the acute shortage of skills, particularly amongst the previously disadvantaged.
Literacy for All
Literacy For All is a project that aims to combat our country's terrible literacy rates by introducing books that teach children to read in their home language, as well as to teach the teachers how to use them. The project needs support from young driven people with good business skills and connections.
Thembacare Grabouw
Thembacare Grabouw provides palliative medical care and overnight facilities for patients in the Grabouw area who are terminally ill with HIV / AIDS.
Bathandwa Children's Home
Bathandwa Day and Night Care Centre is a home in Khayelitsha for abused, abandoned and HIV+ children.
CRO (Community Resource Organisation)
CRO works toward the empowerment of women and the development of sustainable livelihoods, through savings and credit schemes, horizontal learning exchanges, and advocacy. When women have access to resources (financial, educational, etc.), they experience increased value within their households and decreased vulnerability at the hands of their intimate partners. By expanding the freedoms women can access, CRO seeks to address the root causes of gender violence in South Africa.
Niall Mellon Township Trust
The Niall Mellon Township Trust is an organisation that organises the building of low-cost housing, in disadvantaged areas.
Inkwanca Home Based Care Centre
Inkwanca Care Centre is a community driven project assisting those in need in the wider Molteno/Inkwanca area in South Africa, providing assistance to HIV/aids patients, abuse victims and those affected by life threatening illnesses (including their families and the wider community).
Jungle Theatre Company
A theatre company that visits underpriveledged schools conducting workshops and plays focusing on environmental and social concerns.
Carehaven
Carehaven is a shelter for women who are victims of domestic abuse and their children, based in Athlone.
Kids Haven
Kids Haven is a shelter and children's home that caters for children living on the street and other 'last chance' children. They look after boys and girls between the ages of 8 - 18 and currently care for about 170 kids with an additional 30 kids supported in their communities.
Dance For All
Dance For All runs an Outreach Programme of daily dance classes in ballet, African, contemporary, musical theatre and Spanish dance for approximately 1000 children and youth in the underprivileged areas of Gugulethu, Nyanga, Khayelitsha, Athlone, Strand and the rural areas of Barrydale and Montagu. More than just teaching dance, these classes help the children develop beyond a physical level by encouraging creativity and self-discipline and increased self-esteem and confidence.
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Ilitha Learning Centre
The Ilitha Learning Centre is a a nursery school for 2-6 year old kids that operates in Ndlovini in Khayelitsha. Under the energetic and loving guidance of Christina Jita, and at a cost of R30 a term, a wonderful basic education is provided to the kids of financially burderned families who would otherwise just be sitting at home.
Township Trades
Township Trades is a non-profit organisation. It's aims are 2-fold: 1) to develop entrepreneurial skills of young disadvantaged adults from poor communities in and around Cape Town by
giving them a share in t busihis organic soap business and profits which are paid out at the end of their training time with us; and 2) they learn to make a product of international quality and
to run a viable and profitable s21 business for long-term sustainability.
Ons Plek
Ons Plek is the only shelter for street girls in the Western Cape. They provide support, shelter, counseling, home work supervision for girls < 18 years and try to re-patriate the girls with family members.
Rape Crisis Cape Town
Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust (RCCTT) is a registered non-profit organization that has been dealing with the issue of violence against women, with a special emphasis on rape since 1976. Our organization has adopted a multifaceted approach through both curative and preventative services.
Our supportive team offers practical and emotional support to rape survivors and their families and friends through a range of projects such as individual counselling, support groups or long term counselling. Similarly, our preventative service – our training and public awareness programme have an equally important and active role in creating awareness around rape and gender based violence. The lobbying and advocacy programme work actively to make changes in policy and legislation around sexual violence issues. The main aim of creating this awareness is to improve and entrench a respect for women and girls as individuals, and by so doing, create a safer environment for them in which to live.
