Bafanakids helps young teams grow. We aim to bring back structure, regularity, pride, joy and team spirit to the teams and give these kids a chance to a better future through sport. Bafanakids, one of the first projects of its kind is initiated by Abang Africa Trust works closely together with sports specialists like Ajax Cape.

Bafana Kids

Abang Africa Trust administers and facilitates complete soccer kits which include:

• Soccer kits (displaying your company’s name)
• Keeper’s kit (displaying your company’s name)
• Ten Bibs
• Twenty Soccer Cones
• Twenty balls
• A Manager’s jacket for the coach
• Training
• A quarterly training course for the coach provided by Ajax Cape Town for the coach
• A yearly visit for the team to Ajax Cape Town

For just €1500 you can be the proud sponsor of your own team in South Africa. Help make a dream a reality for these young aspiring soccer players.

Visit

You can visit your team, play with them, interact with them or even play a match against them!

The Christine Revell Children’s Home, running since September 1975, is based in Athlone, a suburb 5-10 minutes drive from Cape Town City Bowl, Western Cape. The Children’s Home is registered to care for 49 abandoned, abused, neglected or orphaned children from birth to 5 years old irrespective of gender; race; religion or HIV status.

Children`s Home

Christine Revell facilitates their emotional rehabilitation to cope with the effects of abandonment, neglect and abuse; give the children a home with lots of love and stimulation with the help of others.

Visitors

Day visitors are very welcomed on prior consultation. A tour trough the building takes approximately 20-30 minutes, possible in the morning from 8h30 – 12h00 hrs and between 14h30- 16h00hrs. Monetary donations are needed and used for operational costs: baby formula milk, first aid box requirements and replacements, special medication and ointments that are not provided by state hospitals; fruit and vegetables, cleaning material and lots more.

The Nodumo preschool is situated in the rural area of KwaMthethwa, near Matubatuba  in Kwa-Zulu Natal. The pre-school takes care of many children who have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS in the area and has been in existence since 2000. Most of these children are now raised by aging grandmothers who can hardly afford to feed them.

Nodumo Preschool

Via Abang Africa Trust, the Nodumo crèche has been supported in various ways. Many travellers supported by Abang Africa Trust, come by and support the project with food donations for the feeding programme.Various donations like chairs, cooking utensils and books have been donated over the years as well.

In the beginning the crèche was housed in the local church, with no future prospects. Thanks to generous fundraising organised by individual travellers, Abang Africa Trust together with local RhinoCoast Guest House, has been able to erect a sustainable building for the crèche including toilets. The kids now have a safe and dry place to go with proper sanitation.

There are 40-50 children at the crèche, a monthly feeding scheme is main priority.

Visitors

Must be interested in the education of children.

If you plan to visit please buy donations locally and  upfront. Donations can be made in the form of toys, soccer balls, dolls,  blankets, food and files for filing. Alternatively food donations are welcome for the feeding programme of the children : Millmeal, Rice, Beans, Vegetables, Tomatos, Cabbage, Cooking Oil, Sugar, Flour.

The Tshepang team of 27 workers and their SEEtrust partners are creating a better future for the underprivileged children and families.

Tshepang

Tshepang and SEEtrust Susan Rammekwa started Tshepang, a program for orphaned and vulnerable children. Susan works with a team of 27 workers, taking care of 230 children, counseling the care takers, providing meal services to fragile people in the community and initiating small economic activities, such as a sewing atelier and a vegetable garden. On the land that was bought, SEEtrust will build a much needed primary school, 10 units for small local enterprises, and 70 apartments to sell. The sale will finance the social facilities and pay back the investors, with a profit.

SEEtrust, Tshepang’s first partner, creates new ways for integrated economical and social development, which enable individuals and communities to improve their lives and future. SEEtrust starts from local initiativesand possibilities and focuses on facilitating and growing these. SEE trust is about SEEing possibilities, TRUSTing people and building entrepreneurial partnerships. To keep the projects sustainable and growing, a strong economical base is created, through combining external investments and donations with local income and through creating a return for all partners involved.

Economical, social, learning and environmental outcomes are generated by integrating as many as possible of the following elements:

• Generate income and work
• Create affordable and attractive housing
• Create educational and social facilities and networks
• Reduce ecological footprint
• Strengthen local (women) entrepreneurship and ownership

Visitors

Spend a day and experience daily life in an informal settlement, hear children’s life stories, eat with the Tshepang team and see the impact of partnership: the partnership between Tshepang and SEEtrust.

Experience a day at Thsepang

Be involved at the Tshepang programme in Roodepoort (Johannesburg) for a day and experience the impact a local social program can have on the lives of 230 children and their families.

You can take part in many activities like:

• Play soccer with the children
• Help the kitchen team prepare fresh meals
• Join a social worker for family visits in the informal settlement
• Work with the sewing atelier to get them new assignments.

Persevere Until Something Happens (PUSH) is a  registered non profit organisation that was established in 2001.This project is based in Eldorado Park which is situated 25km SW from Johannesburg. Eldorado Park is surrounded by four informal settlement areas and has a population of 550,000 – 600,000 people.

PUSH is administered by a group of 62 community members who have actively been involved in doing services at various HIV/AIDS Treatment Centres where they helped monitor treatment to infected people. PUSH have many programs to suit the needs of the community.

Streetwires recruits unemployed people and through formal training develops them as wire and bead artists. Established in 2000, Streetwires began with the idea that for something as dynamic and imaginative as wire art, there should be a supportive business structure to boost the craft. Streetwires is a fair trade accredited organisation audited by IFAT – the International Fair Trade Organisation – to verify that we adhere to the social and operational regulations stipulated under the IFAT charter.

Streetwires

By providing people with a workplace, permanent employment, a sense of purpose and access to resources like skills training and personal development, Streetwires is helping to improve the life of many formerly destitute South Africans. Focusing on the unique and dynamic genre of wire art, streetwires is providing the skills training, support and raw materials necessary to enable over 100 formerly unemployed men and women to channel their natural creative energies into this vibrant art form.

Street wire art, unique to Southern Africa and largely unavailable beyond our borders, is a living testimony to the industriousness and creative spirit of our people. Born in the shanty towns and dusty backroads and baptised on the streets, today this genre is a thriving and legitimate art form in its own right, with many ‘wiremasters’ making a living selling their creations not only on street corners and at craft markets, but also in upmarket shops and galleries around the world. Like our people, each hand-crafted piece is special in its own way, and each one has its own story to tell, while the scope for training, development and upliftment is enormous. In addition, most wire art lends itself readily to being branded, thereby increasing the appeal of these products for promotional purposes and corporate gifts, an area that Streetwires has pioneered.

In April 2005, with the support of the Department of Arts and Culture, we opened our first Rural Wire Art Centre in the impoverished farming community of Clanwilliam, three hours west of Cape Town. Future plans include establishing Streetwires Centres in rural areas throughout the country, all offering sustainable employment, hope and a sense of purpose to as many needy South Africans as possible, in places where intervention and opportunities are needed the most.

Visitors

The friendly Streetwires Shop is the only dedicated African Wire and Bead Craft Shop in the Western Cape.

This project can be visited individually or in conjunction with a City Tour. Fully Guided Tours of the vibrant working studio offers the opportunity for visitors to chat to over 100 artists and to see them creating the wonderful products available for purchase in the shop. From Mondays to Fridays between 9am and 4:30pm

Workshop

1½ hour workshop from entrance to exit. This includes a full tour of Streetwires plus a practical workshop session whereby participants are shown and actually create wire art pieces. These pieces can be kept by the visitor. Each participant is provided with tools plus a wire and bead kit. Instructors are allocated to each group to demonstrate the steps involved in making wire art.

Costs

1.5 hours at R180 per person, Minimum 2 and Maximum 300 people

The “Recycle Swop Shop for Kids” was initiated in 2003 in response to the bitter reality that many children in the Zwelihle Township, Hermanus were sitting apathetically on the curb side without benefit of the very basic needs.  The only thing that the children had access to was the garbage and recyclables that surrounded them.  Hence, the concept was born.

Pictures courtesy of Recycle Swop Shop

The Concept

Children can collect tins, plastics and glass bottles to trade for useful and fun things at the shop.  Initially, it began with encouraging anyone 12 years or younger to come.  If a child is old enough to carry a bag of tins, they can “buy” something at the “Recycle Swop Shop”.

At first, the shop supplied only items of personal hygiene and used clothing.  Later, through generous donation they have been able to include school supplies to their stock.

Personal Items:  toilet paper, soap, face cloths, toothbrush, toothpaste, towels, underwear

School Supplies:  pens, pencils, coloured pencils, notebooks, colouring     books, plastic files

Clothes: warm jerseys, t-shirts, tights, trousers, shorts, skirts, shoes

The program operates solely through volunteers, donations from parents, local residents and interested visitors. The swop shop takes place once a week on Wednesday.

Visitors can spend a day at the Recycle Swop Shop Project and get to see how the concept is positively used to help the kids in the community. You will have the opportunity to buy hand made crafts made by locals, in turn, helping them earn a wage.

Lofdal is a Christian organisation based in Bloekombos, Western Cape, which started in the year 2000. The organisation has a wide variety of outreach projects that they are involved in, their aim is to uplift the Bloekombos community and also extend their services throughout South Africa. There are 9 different projects they are involved in and need (financial)assistance for.

Lofdal Projects

Feeding Projects

Lofdal feeds close to 100 000 mouths a month and is gradually moving towards feeding between 100.000 and 120.000 mouths a month in 6 different areas: Bloekombos, Wallacedene, Strydenburg, Parrow, Maitland and Denovo. All of those are impoverished areas. Lofdal`s vision is to provide food to them on a daily basis.

Eagles Rest Hospice

Eagles Rest Hospice is a care facility where they provide T.L.C to terminally ill cancer and HIV/Aids patients when they or their families are unable to do so. They provide in the immediate needs of their patients as well as provide the requisite support for their families to assist them in coping with the illnesses.

House of Safety Orphanage

They are taking care of more than six orphans and children at risk, providing them the love they need and a place where they can feel safe in. This way they are creating a loving home environment where they can dream and pursue a much brighter future than their past.

Lofdal Christian Academy (School)

Lofdal has 300 children attending their school from the community from Grade R to Grade 4. They also have 6 learners with physical difficulties at the school who won’t give up on their dreams to make a success out of their lives.

Agricultural Development Project (Farming)

Lofdal has recently started their own agricultural development project to obtain fresh products and supply it to their feeding project’s rapid increasing need. In this way they are able to produce more food to feed the multitudes.

Visitors

On a visit to Lofdal Community Projects you will be welcomed by friendly staff and volunteers that are willing to show you around. You can take part in various activities such as preparing food and handing it out to over 500 people in the community, spend time with the children and help them with homework, play with them or read stories.

On a visit to Lofdal projects you will be able to take part in many activities such as helping Lofdal staff with handing out food to the community, read stories and play with the kids, go on a tour of Lofdal and see the many projects they are involved with. See what change Lofdal makes in the lives of these people not just by handing out food but by ministering in the people life as well.