GRANTEES

Alcardo Andrews Foundation – Hanover Park

Leader: Avril Andrews

The organisation is based on Four pillars with include (1) the feeding in 5 different stations; (2) Youth; (3) Moms movement for Justice which is focussed on the Family and provide support to mothers who have lost children involve or affected by crimes offering counselling sessions and supporting the families at court. It also includes Activism against GBV and GBV workshops with mothers; (4) Father programs which include GBV workshops with fathers. The focus of the CBO is to empower and restore our communities. In the Youth program, we are working with more a less 25 youth. We have a after school program and also do hiking with the youth and youth camps. . It also focusses on building up the self-esteem and confidence of the youth to deal with the challenges that they are facing daily. We do home visit and speak to parents and have one-on-one with the youth to check in with them. We have dancing classes for the youth to give them the chance to express themselves through dancing. We have a program with dropouts to get them back to school. We have workshops with the youth on the anti-bullying program; personal hygiene, GBV, and peer pressure. We have toiletries and stationery drives for the youth, and fundraising events. With the feeding scheme program, we feed and serve about 400 people daily and distribute food to the different stations. This becomes a platform for them to do some ministering and assist the community with counselling and other social services

Children’s Resource Centre – Mitchell’s Plain

Leader: Shanaaz Viljoen

The Children’s Resource Centre organises children into community groups. Each community has its co-ordinator, which trains its members about the activities that they should exercise with the children. Regular workshops are held to equip the co-ordinators with new skills and activities that they need to implement in their communities. Children head up the organisation and are trained to lead meetings and AGM’s. The activities that they train the kids are sewing, good hygiene, Climate Change and the environment, and food gardening. The Children’s Resource Centre is also active in several other provinces, such as KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng, Beaufort West, George, Namibia in the Eastern Cape, forms of music, dance, and sport, which help children to be able to deal with trauma experienced through forms of violence. They also have what they call the “Junior Jive” where they teach kids from a very young age how to play a musical instrument. Another programme is to assist children to go back to school. They have a sewing project that creates work for women in the community.

Good Enuf Enterprises: Mitchells Plain

Beyonifer McGee

We provide mental health space for kids: We do Anti-bullying programs and Green Therapy which is therapy through gardening. Children are also working in the food gardens as to combine the mental space with agriculture.

Greenlight Organic Food Garden – Ottery, Pelican Park

Leader: Clifford Ceasar

The Greenlight Organic Food Garden started its first food garden in 2014 and ever since then it never looked back. The organisation got the community involved in changing rubbish dumps into food gardens. Its achievements are many and one is winning the Provincial Collaboration Award 2017/2018 from the City of Cape Town. The Greenlight Organic Food Gardens is also a part of an International Ufisamo Research for the past three years by Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. They participated in a Policy Recommendation discussion at the University of Western Cape around Urban Food Gardens. Greenlight Organic Food Gardens have been established out of passion for making a difference and creating employment in the Ottery area. They have also established food gardens in schools within the community. In some cases, all or most of the family members are involve in the food garden. Greenlight Organic Food Garden provides training and upskill courses. They also work with ex-prisoners and drug abusers and home gardens have been establised with their assistance. They work with young people to assist them to establish a food garden.

Hope for the Future: Heideveld, Blikkiesdorp

Leader: Vanessa Nelson

Feeding scheme where we provide 7 different meals. We have an Elderly feeding scheme where we provide food parcels to the elderly. We have a GBV support, facilitation, advocacy and assist women who apply for protective orders and divorce. We give GBV workshops and support over 100 people. We do facilitation and assessment for special-needs children and children with disabilities. We have a program based on the Foundation Phase to assist the children struggling at school. We do mentoring and tutoring of children and give support to the parents. We support Fire victims, people whose houses burnt down in the informal settlement, food drives and clothing drives, and the back-to-school program to support children with school uniform and stationery. We have a winter drive and the Easter campaign with pickle fish and hot cross buns; and the Mandela day celebration. We also have matric camps and the Annual Christmas lunch.

Ithemba Women’s Empowerment Programme

Under the Auspices of CDF WCape

Women empowerment with the focus on skills training and capacity building is one of lthemba Broad-based Ownership Trust’s strategic objectives. Rebuilding of family life, community cohesion and social integration at all levels of community life will enhance opportunities and life chances. Integrated strategies to eradicate poverty include social economic development initiatives and vocational skills training with women at the core of the Ithemba Broad-based Ownership Trust.

Grim prospects and challenges facing women and children brought the idea of “integrated health and economic wellbeing for all” to the fore. With the help and support of a small group of women the holistic HEALTH AND ECONOMIC WELLBEING PROGRAMME FOR WOMEN was conceptualised and the Ithemba Broad-based Ownership Trust was established as a sustainable entity for economic empowerment of women living in deprived communities.

The following objectives underpin this scheme:

Establishing a sustainable economic hub or projects which will focus on wellness and human rights awareness; establishing places of safety for abused Black women; and economic enablement in the form of skills development, socio-economic development, and grassroots enterprise development for Black women.

By channelling funds to the grassroots steering committee, lthemba Broad-based Ownership Trust envisages to bring women as active citizens into the economic sphere, especially within the local and informal sector of economic development. This is achieved through a range of skills-based education, learning and sharing platforms, capacity building and training programmes, and the creation of networking opportunities. Skills development is followed by assisting in obtaining the necessary infra structure and where applicable; financial support to grow these women empowerment projects.

GRASSROOTS INVOLVEMENT

Interested community groups and individuals support the work of the lthemba Broad-based Ownership Trust and grants and donations received to date were specifically for women advancement and enterprise development. Anchoring the lthemba Trust is a Steering Committee consisting of a member group of concerned grassroots Black Women, created to take the holistic wellbeing initiative forward. This group of ten women was recruited for their passion, commitment and skills. They liaise and partner with woman, child and youth-focused service providers in respective communities. The lthemba Broad-based Ownership Trust with the grassroots Steering Committee as support structure is well-positioned and to play such a catalyst a role. The Ithemba Broad-based Ownership Trust works in tandem with a Steering Committee.

Jacobs Gardens : Mitchellsplain

Leader: Wilweena Fortune

The organisation is a local nursery that sell plants and do gardening service and garden clubs. Jacobs Garden does garden clubs and garden maintenance, sells seeds and plants for an income. They started an eco-club at a school in Tafelsig with kids between 10-15 years old where they started planting their vegetable seeds. Through their holiday programmes, they were able to reach many children and adults and exposed them to food security. They have established many new gardens and one in a neighbouring area, Strandfontein. Celebrating National

Garden day on 21 October each year with a plan to raise funds towards purchasing more seedlings. Upskilling the members of the organisation is a key focus area of the business and in this regard, Wilweena participated in a 10-week technology woman in business course, to learn more about technology and how to apply and use it to the benefit of vegetable production.

Kingdom Kids Construction Ministries – Ottery

Leader: Vanessa Jooste

The organisation runs hiking camps for youth and children that teaches life as well as recreational skills. These hikes happen both as day camps as well as sleepover camps. The purpose of the organisation is to create a safe environment for their beneficiaries to laugh, learn and have fun. It helps them to invest in the lives of young children. They also have a reading skills program for young eager children on the farm. We have 13-year-old children that have never been to school that we learn to read. During lockdown, we started with a feeding scheme. Our aim is to reach the children, but we also feed adults.

Lombaards Soup Kitchen and Lelies van die Duine ECD : Atlantis

Leader: Patricia Van Rooyen and Georgina Kastoor

Feed approximately 250 children per day. We distribute food to all the children and food parcels depending on what we have. We are part of the neighbourhood watch. We do sewing and assist community members with material for sewing, if we have donations. We are involved in the program Ambassadors of Justice to assist with cases that has been withdrawn. Assist children involve in gender-based violence. We have a school holiday program and sport program. We are also involved in the creche. We have 11 children and all of them are staying with their parents as backyard dwellers or staying with other people. We have a program for youth in collaboration with another group. We also have a food garden at home to support the feeding of the creche children (as produce or selling). They have built up relationships with their local shops that provides them with the ingredients to sustain their kitchen

Masithembele HIV/AIDS Enrichment Centre – Delft

Leader: Wilhelmina Heynes

An organisation that is in its 13th year of existence. They feed 120 children every day at their afterschool programme and hosts holiday programmes with +-350 children. During the after school programme, they engage the children in sports, recreational activities, assist with their homework, do spelling, dance and through these programmes. They are able to teach children how to deal with issues they face and how to protect their bodies. They do various programmes for the elderly, women, and families, which ranges from Loss and Grief, Adult Support, HIV/Aids counselling to substance abuse. The organisation has its own social worker on the premises. Masithembele also assists their community when other disasters strike, e.g., fires and destruction of homes.

Smart Kingdom Kids Academy – Seawinds, Lavender, Overcome Heights

Leader: Heather Adonis

The Smart Kingdom Kids Academy is a childhood dream that has been realised; founded to support children. We have various programs offering to children, youth, parents as well as seniors. The organisation works in various Early Childhood Development Centres, offering music theory and practical instrument playing, both to heal trauma as well as teaching musical skills. Our programs are to create enhancement to children and to stimulate them to do design thinking such as healing through music and art. They offer an afterschool programme encompassing various in their own lives through various life skills. They teach values, ethics, kindness, and gratitude and invest in the memory banks of children by showing them how to store beautiful memories and friendships. We have a violence prevention program, taking kids out to cycle for an afternoon. This cycling program for young teenage boys contributes to keeping them off the road. We do mentor and counselling and act as a Life Coach especially to the boys to prevent them getting into crime, mischief and dropping out of schools. We do home visit to assess the living conditions to assist and support home, focussing on child-headed homes, orphans, and widows in the area. We do parenting workshops, skills development and train people to sew to do marketable products such as scatter pillow cases, masks, small purses, and handbags. The organisation created lady bags with sanitary pads and everything that a girl might need. The lady bag is suitable to carry anywhere and everywhere. They also have a programme where they teach teenage girls the importance of hygiene. We have a feeding scheme as it is needed in our areas. Focus of the organisation is on upliftment and empowerment.

Women of Westlake – Westlake

Leader: Anthea Thebus

The organisation was concerned about the development of the children that they met through their Early Childhood Development Centre and thus created an afterschool program for 15 primary school children. Their staff is trained on how to work with children suffering from mental health issues and is linked to a social worker from Badisa, which does the counselling for the children. They are all about positivity, hope and great gratitude and that is why they chose to gratify the walls of Westlake Village with positive messages to instil belonging for the community. They established the neighbourhood watch because of their focus on child protection. Some of the staff members are registered with the College of Cape Town doing their Early Childhood Development training.

Focus is the children especially the safety of the children. We serve as emergency mothers to abandoned, abuse and neglect children in our area and surrounded areas. We work together with Badisa, Social Workers, where we do referrals, and they will contact us when the child needs to be placed. We are the “eyes and ears” of the community. We will report when a child is in a dangerous situation, and the child will be removed and the court will place the child in our care as emergency mothers until the child goes to either foster care, place back to the parents, or adopted. We also do the Early Child Development program in the Creche, school holiday programs, youth camps, women support group – gender-based violence, senior support group – will make packets for the seniors and feed them once a week. We have a feeding scheme and cook and feed at 14h00 about 150 people daily. We work with the neighbourhood watch and with the Police forum.

Youth of Atlantis

Leader: Eugenee Adams

This organisation provides the community with food and work with the youth where she will assist them with games and learning activities. They also recruit youth of Atlantis to be part of their organisation. For fundraising they would do fundraising events to assist with sustainability of her feeding scheme and her youth programme. The youth of Atlantis will go to the homes of elders and assist them to clean their house daily. The organisation has a cleaning project with the youth where their ask the community to recycle plastic bottles and cans. She also has an afterschool program where she helps the youth with their homework.