Alexandra Development Centre (ADC)
Established in 2003, the Alexandra Development Centre (ADC) works with government to implement projects on poverty alleviation, skills development, entrepreneurship, job preparation
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Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
Alcoholics Anonymous is a worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober. They offer the same help to anyone who has a drinking problem and wants to do something about it. Since they are all alcoholics themselves, they know what the illness feels like – and they have learned how to recover from it in AA.
Continue reading →Cape Flats Development Association (CAFDA)
CAFDA is managed by a professional team including administrative staff, social workers and community development workers. Together with our extensive volunteer base we provide education, training and social development programs within the community and at our training centre, which target the needs of the community.
Continue reading →Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
The mission of the YMCA is to empower and nurture the development of the youth while embracing the beauty of diversity and inclusivity. Serving as a catalyst for positive change, we passionately advocate for social justice on crucial issues such as youth unemployment and gender equality. We strive to create unity, empowerment, and meaningful connections among the young people of South Africa.
Continue reading →ChevrahKadisha (CK)
ChevrahKadisha is a Jewish charity organisation
Continue reading →Kwazulu-Natal Society for The Blind (KZNSB)
The Kwazulu-Natal Society for the Blind (KZN-SB) was established in 1919 and has evolved into a dynamic organization offering a multi-disciplinary approach to access to human rights related services for blind and partially sighted people of KwaZulu-Natal.
Continue reading →Meals On Wheels (MOW)
Meals on Wheels is a multi-faceted welfare non-profit organization tasked with helping poverty-stricken South Africans with nutritious meals and food security. Our aim is a hunger-free country, ensuring every elderly person and child can go to bed with a full tummy.
Continue reading →Quadpara Association Western Cape (QAWC)
The QuadPara Association of the Western Cape (QAWC) is a non-profit organisation (NPO 002-942) which represents quadriplegics and paraplegics in the Western Cape. Any person may become a member of the organisation and the QAWC membership is drawn from various diverse areas across the Western Cape. The organisation is managed by a management committee.
QAWC strives to improve the lives of and fights for the rights of quadriplegics and paraplegics in the Western Cape. Through prevention and awareness campaigns, QAWC aims to prevent spinal cord injuries as well as educate the general public about the realities of living with a spinal cord injury.
Continue reading →Phaphama SEDI (PHAPHAMA)
Phaphama SEDI is a non-profit organisation that was started in 2014 by a small group of dynamic UCT students. The aim of Phaphama was to increase the entrepreneurial capacity of small businesses in the Khayelitsha and Philippi area by connecting them with a consulting team of senior UCT students.
Each entrepreneur is teamed for the entirety of the programme with three student consultants. These groups, comprising of diverse academic backgrounds and skill sets, mean that each business owner will receive consistent and specialised attention throughout the year, in addition to the overarching skills-building training they will receive in the module workshops.
To date we have worked with over 100 small to medium enterprises and over 300 student consultants. In doing so, we labour tirelessly to make success a reality for our entrepreneurs, at the same time we seek to equip our consultants with practical skills. We want student consultants to experience what it is like to work with the local business community.
Continue reading →Quadpara Association Gauteng North (QAGN)
QuadPara Gauteng North is an organisation which represent the right of people with spinal cord injuries. One of our successful project is to provide our members with a one week basic computer training which is free for our members, we also cater for other form of disabilities but preference will be given to those with spinal injury. We also assist our members in applying for learnerships and employment opportunities. To ensure that we keep in touch with our members we would like the hospital to help use to ensure that every patient before being discharged they complete our membership form and we will arrange that once or twice a month we can come and collect them.
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