Abalimi Bezekhaya is an Non-Profit Organisation working to improve sustainable food production and environmental greening amongst the poor in Cape Town. Our focus is on skills development through training and supporting people and organisations who wish to practice organic horticulture and micro farming. We promote sustainable development while encouraging initiatives which renew, build and conserve social organisation, self responsibility and the natural environment.

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ARESTA fulfils a practical empowerment role in educating and providing skills to refugees and asylums seekers, helping refugees develop their own strengths in order for them to become self-reliant during their stay under the protection of the South African Government.

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The Amy Biehl Foundation (ABF) is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town whose programmes are designed to develop and empower youth in the townships and contribute to community building efforts as a mechanism to reduce the levels of crime and violence in these areas and aims to give them opportunities to become future leaders and entrepreneurs in society. This is achieved by providing educational and cultural activities that offer students healthy alternatives to crime, drugs, sex, idleness and negative influences and unlocks their creative talent.

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Beauty for Ashes works with female prisoners providing support in prison and in 2001 began supporting women released from prison under parole conditions. In July 2003 Beauty for Ashes opened their own half way house in Observatory, Cape Town. There is however, a great openness to extending this work to include men, once the service in support of the women has been established and reached a level of maturity.

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Dance for All provides children in historically disadvantaged communities with the opportunity for enjoyment, promotion of self esteem and empowerment through the medium of dance, as well as training professional dancers and developing a unique, indigenous dance company.

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The Esinqobile Therapy Centre in a program run by HNO which currently caters for 38 Children with both mental and physical disabilities. There is a team of 17 therapists that work with these children on a daily basis.

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GCU was set up in 2001 by Mario van Neikerk. Born and bred in Heideveld, Mario had witnessed many of the community’s problems first hand and felt passionate about helping many of the area’s youth and keeping them off the streets. Hence the Soccer Academy was born. GCU is not just a football club, it has expanded into a wider range of community activities including rope skipping, tutoring, life skills, school for dropout, mentorships and way out of being trapped in the cycle of gangs and drugs.
Great Commission United (GCU) is based at Woodlands Primary School in Heideveld. Built in the 1960s as a temporary education facility, it has little funding and 456 learners with just 12 teachers. In 2009, Woodlands Primary School was found to be the worst performing primary school in the Western Cape, with a numeracy rate of just 2.5% and literacy standing at 22% for students in Grade 6.

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Grootbos Nature Reserve has always shown a very serious commitment to conservation. With the realization that the conservation of Grootbos in isolation from surrounding areas would be futile, Grootbos, together with its main stakeholders, began influencing surrounding properties in an effort to introduce an all-round conservation ethic to the local area.

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Based on a model that has been tested in practise as a viable alternative to institutionalised child-care, Home from Home was registered as a charity in May 2005. Home from Home is a registered charitable Trust. The financial records kept are of a high standard and are open to scrutiny at any time. The Board of Executors (BoE) Trust is the underlying support Trust to Home from Home.

The founding trustees are Jane Payne and Pippa Shaper. Other trustees are Sally Hugo-Hamman, Karen Day, Nicky Thompson and Anna Vayanos.

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Since 2003 the Hout Bay Music Project has thrived and experienced considerable success. It has received broad support from all sectors of the Hout Bay community. The Project has grown considerably since its humble beginnings and now provides music and arts tuition through a number of sub-projects.The Project teaches music, mainly string instruments, voice and drumming, to approximately 60 children from the historically disadvantaged communities of Hangberg Harbour Village and Imizamo Yethu, Hout Bay. In addition, the project runs life orientation programmes which addresses issues of self esteem, HIV/AIDS and teenage pregnancy.

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Ixopo Village Intermediate School is 98Kms from Pietermaritzburg. The principal is Mr. Dlamini and more than 600 children attend the school. The school has its historical roots in the Apartheid system and it was started by the Methodist Church to teach local African children in Ixopo Village.

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Established in 1986 as a children’s shelter for abused and abandoned children from the community of Hout Bay, James House, 20 years later is one of the leading Child and Youth Care programmes in South Africa.

All services rendered by James House are contextualised within community needs, the profession of Child and Youth Care and broader socio-economic influences current within South Africa.

James House is at its core a grassroots organisation, offering a 24 hr, seven day service to vulnerable families and children. The effectiveness of these services lies in the commitment and skill to be found within the staff and volunteers.

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The Jikeleza (Xhosa: “turn around” or “pirouette”) Dance Project, established in April 2002, currently teaches dance (African, contemporary, Spanish and classical ballet) and music (marimbas and drumming) to children and young people from the informal settlement of Imizamo Yethu and the Hangberg Harbour community in Hout Bay, in Nyanga township and at the Learn-to-Live Program for street children in Green Point.

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Khayelitsha Special School was originally designated a mainstream school and was converted to a Special School in 2002. It’s main function is to provide education for learners with special needs.

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Khumbulani centre was founded in 2000 and has established a reputation as an excellent care-giving facility operating under very difficult circumstances.The centre provides day care and after school services for HIV/AIDS affected and infected children and others. There are up to 160 children from the ages of 0-13 who attend the centre with an even spread of girls and boys.

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Kiddies Educare Centre is a creche or day care centre for children between the ages of a few months old and 6 or 7 years old. The centre currently has 47 children which come to the centre everyday from 6am - 6pm. Margret is truly an inspiration to all that meet her, and she is loving and committed principal of this remarkable pre-school.

Learn to Earn seeks to develop people, especially unemployed people, socially, economically, emotionally and spiritually. The vision is to eradicate unemployment and other legacies of injustice in South Africa.

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Main Objectives

*The objectives of the organization are to:

*Change the existing negative perception about lesbian, bisexual and transgender womyn in our
society.

*Support and reach out to lesbians who have been forced from their homes due to their sexual
orientation and HIV status.

*Raise awareness on social culture, political and economic issues, that impacts on lives of
lbt’s.

*Develop an archive of LBT womyn in townships commemorate and celebrate young and older
LBT womyn.

*Fundraise necessary funds for different programs and infrastrure (sustainability)

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The core business is to provide functional art products and unique commissions to both the private and corporate markets. All people employed by the organisation receive training in manufacturing and product development, design, marketing, finance and lifeskills training.

They are an organisation of highly skilled mosaic artists, proud South African suppliers of personalised and hand crafted mosaic art directly to the public.

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In the Western Cape there are many welfare organisations that deal with a vast population of pets and pet owners. But as a direct result of South Africa’s apartheid past, animal welfare organisations are mostly situated in so-called “white suburbs”.

Khayelitsha has a human population of approximately 1,5 million people. It is estimated that each household has at least one domestic pet. This means that there are over 1 million pets that need access to veterinary services at sometime in their lives.

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For the past 126 years Nazareth House, one of the oldest organisations, has taken care of indigent elderly and orphaned and abandoned children, or children with incurable diseases. The Sisters arrived in Cape Town in 1881, at the request of the then Bishop of Cape Town. In total, more than 100 underprivileged children and adults are sheltered, fed, medicated and counselled at any given time. This equates to 110 000 meals served or 36 500 beds that have been occupied for the night!

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NOAH is a model of housing and services for the poorest older people of the Western Cape. With 12 houses for the fit elderly, 2 assisted living facilities, 2 community centres, a primary health care clinic and a growing network of social clubs, NOAH provides a fully integrated package of care. Each year, NOAH reaches out to over 700 older people – helping them to feel secure and happy, stay connected to their communities, retain their dignity and independence and remain healthy and active for as long as possible.

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The Pebbles Project believes that if a child, particularly one with special needs of any kind, is supported and given the necessary education at an early age, they are far more likely to go on to achieve more at school, and become well-adjusted, educated and achieving adults.Pebbles works closely with several wine farm owners, who support their work and assist them with the upliftment of their farm worker communities and the education of the workers' children. Pebbles also supports township crèches.

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Place of Hope is a registered NPO ( 016 -266 ) which was established in July 2001. It is a residential centre for victims of domestic violence (and their children), whose lives have been extremely adversely affected by ongoing acts of violence perpetrated against them – a ‘near-death’ incident is what eventually causes a women to seek help, and she is then referred to our centre via a Social Worker, The Police, a Minister of Religion etc
The women stay at Place of Hope for approximately 6 months, and during this time they participate in a various programmes

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SAEP is a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, dedicated to improving the lives and opportunities of children in the townships through education and life-skills training. SAEP’s Early Childhood Development Programme provides support for 16 independently run township pre-schools/day-care centres (known locally as “crèches”) through the Safety Unity Crèche Forum in the informal community of Philippi, assisting them move from being simply day care centres to early childhood development centres.

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The Sunflower Project ‘assists survivors of gender violence every step of the way’. The project was born 5 years ago in response to the staggering amount of abuse suffered by women and children in the local area. It is the proud recipient of both a CPSI (Centre for Public Service Innovation) Award and a White Ribbon Award – both in 2006. The project is active throughout the Sisonke District Municipality.

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Bestselling author John Mason said “What you need is an idea and be brave enough to live creatively”. That is just what the people of Original T-bag Designs did – they had an idea and applied it.

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Thandolwethu is a day care centre or creche which was recently established on the 3rd of September 2007. The creche currently has 7 children enrolled and with the completion of their new building is looking forward to increasing this amount of children.

Thokozani Brothers is a non-profit organization which was established in 1997 by ten young men who started singing Isicathamiya - a traditional form of music.
Thokozani Brothers was founded in response to the social challenges under which individuals in the community find themselves, especially the youth and young adults. 
Many young people were dropping out of school due to family poverty such as not having a school uniform or having to care for siblings.

Thokozani Brothers make interventions that go a long way towards providing alternative options for young people. Music is regarded as a universal language and they use it to reach out to adults and children in our community. It serves as a chore of their activities but leads to additional support and empowerment through extended activities.

Thola Ulwazi Crèche is situated in Creighton Village 136kms from Pietermaritzburg. The village is surrounded by dairy farms and beautiful countryside. Ms Florence Ngubo is the principal of the crèche, Florence is young and dynamic and the children are joyful and lively. HNO has been involved with Florence from her humble beginning, operating the crèche from a small out-building at the local club – an initiative of an innovative farmer’s wife.

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Established in 2002 by Mandlesizwe Lufele and other concerned community youths, the Volcano Arts Project is a Community Based Organisation that is committed to community development and empowerment through arts, culture and life skills training.

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