A VEHICLE FOR CHANGE
The breath-taking natural beauty and diverse cultures aside, South Africa suffers many acute social challenges. Millions of her citizens live in extreme poverty and face daily struggles to survive, let alone thrive. Motivated by love, compassion, and respect for our common humanity, Uthando (Love) South Africa seeks to form part of the solution to meet these challenges.
As an award-winning model of responsible tourism and traveling philanthropy, Uthando is drawing on an extensive network of cherished partnerships in tourism and community development, with the ultimate goal of linking these two sectors by a myriad of innovative, sincere and meaningful ways.
Our respectful, life-changing Philanthropic Educational Excursions allow Uthando guests to experience South Africa’s unique spirit of Ubuntu ‘I am because we are’. Our culturally sensitive philanthropic educational excursions shine a light on the many deserving, unsung community heroes. Their nation-building efforts so often go unrecognized and unrewarded.
“It’s about giving with love. Creating hope and faith. Hope for a better future, faith in humanity.” –
JAMES FERNIE Director, Uthando South Africa
OUR VALUES
Community Development and Social Entrepreneur Projects
Uthando (Love) South Africa is proud to work with and support a fantastic collection of independent, well-managed, innovative, inspiring community development projects and charitable organizations across a broad spectrum of sectors.
LATEST ARTICLES
Browse our collection of blog articles featuring the journey of the projects we support, their work and their impact.
We Are Africa 2023
We are very grateful to have received two very prestigious awards recently. These awards actually belong to all of our community partners and benefactors, because without a bigger team effort, our programme of action would not be possible. We thank you for being part of the family.
Uthando Wins Responsible Tourism Award
We are very grateful to have received two very prestigious awards recently. These awards actually belong to all of our community partners and benefactors, because without a bigger team effort, our programme of action would not be possible. We thank you for being part of the family.
Mama Kristina Kaba – “DOMPAS”
On the 16th of February 2023 we were honoured to be part of a historic day in South Africa. In January, we contacted the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) with the request that they take responsibility for the preservation of Mama Kaba’s “dompas” and record her story for posterity.
ZAMA DANCE SCHOOL YEAR END PERFORMANCE
It is hard not to feel full of optimism, hope, joy and inspiration when visiting Zama Dance School in Gugulethu. After an absence of two years due to Covid-19, it was wonderful to be back at Zama for their year-end performance.