Ghetto Gardeners
Ghetto Gardeners affectionately known as “GG” was established in 2018 by Ludwe Qamata from Site C in Khayelitsha with the purpose of empowering young and old with organic vegetable development skills and knowledge. GG encourages a positive change within community and household spaces by transforming unused and used areas to beautiful gardens. Ludwe having [...]
Goal50
Goal50 Early Childhood Development Centre Goal50 Early Childhood Development Centre Is The Most Incredible Eco-conscious Education Facility In The World! From Tyres To Transformation! Goal50 Early Childhood Development Centre Goal50 Early Childhood Development Centre Is The Most Incredible Eco-conscious Education Facility [...]
Greater Commission United (GCU)
Greater Commission United (GCU) is a non-profit organization based in Heideveld, Cape Town. Established in 2001 by Mario van Niekerk, GCU provides life-changing sporting and education opportunities to disadvantaged, impoverished youth between the ages of 7 and 18 years. The primary aim of GCU is to guard against youth gangsterism within the Heideveld community [...]
Greenpop
Greenpop is a non-profit organization on a mission to (re)connect people with the planet by planting trees through urban greening and reforestation projects. The organization spreads environmental awareness and activates people via green festivals and workshops across Southern Africa. The urban-greening initiative empowers local communities to improve their ecological and social landscapes by using [...]
Hanover Park Cricket Club
Hanover Park Cricket Club is a Registered Non-Profit (176-964) and Public Benefit Organisation. The Club strives to impact its members through sports education. It is committed to teaching cricket to restore dignity and a sense of belonging to their community. The sport is a unifying catalyst, helping to curb the gangsterism, violence, and drugs [...]
Home from Home
Home from Home is a non-profit organization that provides supervised community-based cluster foster care for orphaned, abused, neglected, and vulnerable children in South Africa. Established in 2005 by Jane Payne and Pippa Shaper, Home from Home cares for over 200 vulnerable children through a network of 36 homes across 15 communities in the Western [...]
Hout Bay Music Project (HBMP)
The Hout Bay Music Project (HBMP) is a non-profit organization that was founded by Leanne Dolman in 2003, with the vision to empower disadvantaged children through music. The project enables children to come together and experience the joy and therapy that music brings, teaching the necessary skills and related disciplines to over 80 children [...]
Ikhaya “Home” Garden (Ikhaya Kulture Garden)
Ikhaya "Home" Garden (Ikhaya Kulture Garden) is an urban food forest established in 2013 by Xolisa Bangani, an artist who had a vision to showcase gardening as a landscaping art. Based on a plot at Isikhokelo Primary School in Site C, Khayelitsha, the project focuses on promoting and practicing agro-ecology and biodiversity concepts. The [...]
Institute for Music & Indigenous Art Development (IMAD)
IMAD, the acronym for Institute for Music and Indigenous Arts Development, is a non-profit organization operating in disadvantaged areas in and around Cape Town that makes music education accessible to young people. Founded in 2007, IMAD teaches children to play a variety of instruments and how to sing in choirs, with a primary focus [...]
AT THE HEART OF IT ALL
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.
