Uthando (Love) South Africa is proud to work with and support a fantastic collection of independent, well-managed, innovative and inspiring community development projects and charitable organizations and social entrepreneurs across a broad spectrum of sectors including the following:

• Abused women and children / domestic violence
• Agriculture and food gardens
• Animal welfare
• Human development through arts/culture and sport
• Children and Educare
• Disabilities
• Drug and alcohol abuse
• Education
• Elderly and aging
• Environmental and green
• Farmworkers and rural development
• HIV / AIDS
• Housing / Shelter
• Nutrition
• Population health
• Prisoner rehabilitation
• Reconciliation and human rights development
• Refugees and migrants
• Skills development and empowerment
• Sustainable economic development
• Unemployment

The criterion for consideration as a grantee project:

• Grantees must be community based.
• Grantees must be registered Non-Profit Organizations (NPO) with the South African Department of Social Development.
• Grantees must be prepared to submit needs analyses to Uthando and provide satisfactory reports on expenditure including Annual Reports and Annual Financial Statements.
• Grantees must satisfy Uthando that benefits to the community are clearly defined and activities are tangible and evident.