Natalse Christelike Vrouevereniging (NCVV)
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Interchange Foundation (IF)
The Interchange Foundation is a community collaboration NGO based at Helderberg Village in Somerset West. It’s mission is to implement a model for retirement villages to actively engage with all role-players within their communities in a quest for a “viable and unified community”, one of the precepts of the National Development Plan.
Continue reading →Kara Heritage Institute (KHI)
The Kara Heritage Institute is a leading South African organisation, working for the humanity of Africa by bringing our past African heritage into the present, and shaping our future. The Kara Heritage Institute is committed to leveraging the knowledge and ethos of Africa’s heritage to grow sustainable and empowered communities, which ultimately gain the freedom to shape their own destiny.
Continue reading →Institute for Municipal Public Safety of Southern Africa (IMPS-SA)
The Institute for Municipal Public Safety of Southern Africa unequivocally stands for all involved in the sphere of municipal public safety in Southern Africa – municipal policing, municipal By-law enforcement, municipal security services and City Police within local government.
Continue reading →Islamic Social and Welfare Association (ISWA)
The Islamic Social Welfare Association was formed in 1996 to seek solutions for the social problems amongst Muslims and its negative effects on society. Miss Gadija Fredericks and Mrs Nurounihaar Mintin co-ordinated a meeting with the Muslim Judicial Council where Imams, Social Workers and Community Workers, all voiced their concerns and attempted to start a structure to address these concerns.
There was an unanimous appeal for a professional social work agency that would use a model that integrated social science with in the Islamic framework. The meeting resulted in nine Muslims fully committing themselves to the establishment of such a structure.
The primarily aim of this structure was to address marital problems. This was to be achieved through pre-marital counselling, providing a treatment for marriages under stress and providing post divorce guidance for couples (especially women) who were left destitute. The overwhelming need for proper social services in all areas of social disfunctioning let ISWA to broaden its vision to include other counselling as well.
Continue reading →Dystonia Association of South Africa (DASA)
The Dystonia Association of South Africa (DASA) is a non-profit organization that aims to support individuals with dystonia and their families.
Continue reading →Food Gardens Foundation (FGF)
Food Gardens Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1976 by Pauline Raphaely and Joyce Niland. Our Vision is the empowerment of people to overcome malnutrition, famine, hunger and the effects of desease. Food Gardens Foundation achieves community development and social upliftment by teaching people small-scale low-cost organic Food Gardening. Organic trenchbed gardening, according to our specific method (called ‘Food Gardening’), makes efficient use of normal domestic and other organic waste to revitalise the soil and feed the vegetables.
Continue reading →Environmental and Developmental Agency Trust (EDA)
The Environmental and Development Agency (EDA) Trust is a non-governmental organisation with over 20 years of experience in integrated rural development in the communal areas of South Africa. EDA works with rural communities and organisations in the Herschel and Maluti sub-regions of the Eastern Cape, in the southern and central districts of the Northern Province and in the Bronkhorstspruit district in Mpumalanga/Gauteng. EDA is affiliated to a number of rural networks of NGOs and CBOs, and will work to widen the discussions on traditional leaders and institutions into these networks, and to encourage broad participation in the popular formulation of policy at all levels.
Continue reading →Family Care Association Pretoria (FCAP)
Family Care Association Pretoria (FCAP) worked in Mamelodi, a large township east of Pretoria with Stanza Bopape Community Development Centre, to distribute food and goods to underprivileged families and children. The objective was not to simply give “hand-outs,” but to provide education, training and assistance to help individuals and families become productive members of society. Most of the beneficiaries of FCAP programs live in deplorable conditions, but with assistance, training, and hope, their lives are able to change for the better.
Continue reading →Cape Women’s Agricultural Association (VLV)
Also known as the Vroue-landbouvereniging, Kaapprovinsie, the Cape Women’s Agricultural Association is a women’s organisation aimed at personal growth, giving their members the opportunity for personal advancement and community service. It allows members to work towards a healthy family life; effectively give attention to those less fortunate with various needs, and to offer their service in this regard.
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