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. …
$88 million dollars. That’s about R1.14 billion rand… for a video game. This is the amount of funding received for the Star Citizen video game on Kickstarter, a crowdfunding site where ordinary people ‘donate’ their money to projects they want …
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. …
Bovines are typically classified as slow and gentle creatures. Yet this is certainly not the case with the CHOC Cows, a fundraising arm of CHOC (Childhood Cancer Foundation). Dressed in fluffy spotted cow suits, this group of passionate activists push …
On Mandela Day, we had the pleasure of spending time with Starfish Greathearts Foundation, one of our partner organisations, and one of their community-based partners, Nokuphila Community Foundation. The objective: to assist five families in Kwathema, near Springs, whose circumstances rendered …
‘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 …
As the shopping trolley ferrying two 10 litre containers, and a most delightful little passenger, made its way along the rutted soot-covered road to the communal tap, I couldn’t help being dumbstruck. This was how many in our country collected …
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 …
Several faces smiled nervously back at me as I entered the clinic waiting room and shot a few pictures. While the young men sat and waited, they received juice and a sandwich. Although this didn’t detract from the fact that …
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