2025-06-05T13:56:31+02:00
Amy Foundation

The Amy Foundation (Formerly Amy Biehl)

The Amy Foundation (Formerly Amy Biehl)

The Amy Foundation (formerly named the Amy Biehl Foundation) is a non-profit organization offering development programs to young children and adults. Over 2000 participants daily between the ages of 5 and 35, the community's youth faced with the challenges of living within vulnerable communities in Cape Town, the programs supplement the shortcomings of the [...]

2025-06-05T12:59:52+02:00
Big Issue

The Big Issue

The Big Issue

The Big Issue is a non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) and Public Benefit Organization (PBO). They produce an award-winning, high-quality monthly consumer magazine focusing on the social issues of the day, which self-employed sell to make a living. The Big Issue provides social development services to vendors. The organization creates jobs for the unemployed, vulnerable, [...]

2025-12-13T00:29:20+02:00
Thokozani center

Thokozani “Rejoice” Together

Thokozani “Rejoice” Together

Thokozani, meaning "Rejoice" in isiXhosa Together, is a safe place for at-risk children in Khayelitsha Township. The owners, Mhlangabezi Masizana and Lindelwa Masizana, foster their inherent talents to educate street children. Their innovative social upliftment programs such as homework tutoring, choir singing, and entrepreneurship. Thokozani focuses on inspiring children to get to know themselves [...]

2025-12-13T18:11:11+02:00

U-Turn

U-Turn

U-turn is a registered NGO based in Cape Town founded in 1997 dealing with homelessness. Over the past 21 years, have crafted an innovative skills based programme designed with long term results for rehabilitation and reintegration. Six months after graduating from the programme, more than 80% of participants remain employed and sober.

2025-06-05T13:15:37+02:00
Ulwazi Educare

Ulwazi “Knowledge” Educare

Ulwazi “Knowledge” Educare

Ulwazi, "Knowledge" in isiXhosa, Educare, was opened in 1998 by founder Patiswa Patience Bangani in the community of Delft with the goal to educate, nurture and protect children from child abuse, drugs, and fight poverty. The Early Childhood Development Center (ECD) provides preschool education, nurturing and care for children up to 6 years of [...]

2025-06-05T13:17:11+02:00
Young Guiding Stars band

Young Guiding Stars Band (YGSSSB)

Young Guiding Stars Band (YGSSSB)

Young Guiding Stars Sacred String Band of Claremont (YGSSSB) is one of the oldest Christmas Choir Bands in the Western Cape, if not in South Africa. The band is celebrating its 87th Anniversary in August of 2019.0 Founded by the late Appolis Davidson and established in 1932 in the Harfield / Claremont area, in [...]

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Uthando (love) South Africa Projects

Community and development projects we work with and support.

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.
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