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Phaphama SEDI (PHAPHAMA)

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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.

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Pietermaritzburg Mental Health Society (PMBMH)

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Pietermaritzburg Mental Health is a long established non-government organisation in existence since 1945. The NGO renders services to persons with mental disabilities. The services offered include social work, occupational therapy, residential care and protective employment. Indirect services to individuals and communities focuses on mental health awareness, community development and education.

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Parachute Association of South Africa (PASA)

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PASA is a non-profit association of members with the mission statement:

“To foster, develop and facilitate sport parachuting, in all its facets, within South Africin the safest and most progressive manner, on behalf of its members.”

For many people the words parachuting and skydiving conjure up images of adrenalin junkies and daredevils with little regard for their own safety. One of the questions most frequently asked of sport parachutists is, “who in their right mind would want to willingly throw themselves out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft?”

In truth, sport parachuting is a disciplined sport that operates within rigidly defined and enforced safety parameters as set out in PASA’s Manual of Procedures. This Manual has been ratified by the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA) and is the basis upon which PASA has been approved as an Aviation Recreation Organisation. The safety and training standards contained in the manual are on a par or better than international standards and must be adhered to by all affiliated drop zones and members in South Africa.

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Sunshine Association (SA)

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The Sunshine Centre Association is a community welfare organisation that works in partnership with communities to develop a wide range of early intervention services for children with developmental and intellectual disability and for their families. We are a dynamic progressive and innovative non profit organisation committed to the development of children with disabilities, intellectual/developmental or physical delay.

We focus on early intervention in the field of intellectual disability and offer diverse services on many levels

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Sustento Foundation (SusFon)

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SusFon was established in 2020 as a non-profit organization that conducts business with altruistic or philanthropic intent. SusFon’s vision is to assist communities working in collaboration with public institutions in a bid to improve their livelihoods and their right to basic services in a participatory and co-creative manner and to support these communities and institutions to address inequality by means of social, economic, and educational empowerment.

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St Dunstan’s Association for South African War-blinded Veterans (SDASWBV)

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St Dunstan’s Association for SA War-blinded Veterans has been supporting War Blinded Veterans since 1915, through physical and emotional support, helping to empower beneficiaries to live independent and fulfilling lives. In 1918, after World War I, an after Care Committee was established in South Africa to care for blinded servicemen returning home.

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Operation Hunger (OH)

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The mission of Operation Hunger is to generate and provide training in self-sustaining, income generating projects that combat malnutrition, foster healthy living, encourage basic literacy and provide basic training in life and business management skills through the establishment of partnerships between caring, like-minded organisations and vulnerable communities.

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Organ Donor Foundation of Southern Africa (ODF)

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The ODF is the national umbrella body for the promotion of organ and tissue donation. We actively plan and implement education and publicity programmes that are designed to raise awareness of organ and tissue donation with the aim being to prime individuals towards consent.
The ODF is not a medical organization and plays no role in the allocation, or procurement, of organs. We receive no funding from government and rely entirely on our own fundraising initiatives and generous donations from corporates and individuals to support our work.


The Foundation has two main focuses:

  1. To raise awareness amongst the entire South African population about the need for, and the benefits of, organ and tissue donation and transplantation.

  2. To educate medical professionals, in both the public and private sector, about the transplantation process. We aim to motivate medical personnel to consider organ and tissue donation when assessing brain-dead patients and help achieve a more efficient referral system, so that more life-saving organ transplants and more life restoring tissue transplants will be performed South Africa.

We also administer an Emergency Flight Plan, which pays for the transportation of vital organs from outlying areas to transplant hospitals if sponsored flights and/or funding is available to do so.

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Organisation of Civic Rights (OCR)

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The OCR as a community based NGO is committed to developing a better and just society by making a significant and distinctive contribution at regional, provincial and national levels through active grassroots involvement in improving the condition of tenants and the homeless community.

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Open Society Foundation for South Africa (OSFSA)

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The Open Society Foundation for South Africa is a grant-making organisation, and is a member of the International Soros Foundations Network.

The OSF-SA is committed to promoting the values, institutions and practices of an open, non-racial and non-sexist, democratic, civil society. It works for a vigorous and autonomous civil society in which the rule of law and divergent opinions are respected.

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