The Refilwe Community Project implements many projects simultaneously to assist the adjacent Joe Slovo community. They provide foster homes, assist in early childhood development programs, help with abandoned orphan care and run programs assisting the community to earn a living. …
Her eyes were swollen from crying – real, genuine, heart-broken tears, not the manufactured kind. Her tiny frame was hunched over, as if in pain. There was a grubby bandage around her leg and on her feet, she wore slippers. …
‘Small Business creates jobs’ or so the saying goes. The corollary to this statement is that it is big business’ mandate to shed jobs as it attempts to do ‘more for less’. Both statements are true… well kinda. Both statements …
Marilyn Bassin of Boikanyo shares her learnings from her experience of community-based work on a vegetable garden project in Soweto, with us. Our experience over the past few months has taught us huge amounts about working in communities. One of …
The provision (or lack thereof) of public healthcare in South Africa has received a fair amount of attention. Despite the fact that post-1994, there were a number of improvements to the public healthcare sector such as equal access; equal expenditure …
At Different.org, we want to be problem solvers. We want to enable you to help tackle some of the seemingly-insurmountable problems keeping South Africa from reaching its full potential. Admittedly, this may seem a little over-ambitious – deluded, at worst. …
Any entrepreneur will tell you that what you are looking for is an annuity business, something that makes money while you sleep (or play golf). I have been an entrepreneur all my adult life and I have had countless lunches …
Alleviating poverty in South Africa will be a slow process because there are many components to this issue which need to be tackled. One of the major factors hampering South Africa’s ability to transform the country’s poorer communities is the …
It would be nearly impossible to adequately cover the topic of poverty alleviation in one small blog post. At Different.org, we take the reduction of poverty seriously – so much so that it is at the core of our mandate. …
On Mandela Day, the 18th of July, we are asked to remember Mandela and celebrate his memory by giving 67 minutes of our day to help others by doing an act of good. But many people do not actually know …
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