PLATINUM

4 projects were awarded Platinum in 2005.

Working on Fire Programme (WoF)

The non-profit organisation Working on Fire (WoF) in 2003 developed a programme to underpin an integrated plan for fire management. A multipronged plan including increased response speed, adequate support in the air and on the ground, and coupled with preventative fuel reduction strategies, has reduced the amount of damage caused by uncontrolled fires.

Local Labour Promotion Project

The Overstrand Local Labour Promotion Project (est. 2005), located in the Zwelihle township, in Hermanus in the Western Cape, was devised as a means of creating upward social mobility, and to foster a culture of responsibility, for community members as part of the local authority’s strategy to bring about poverty alleviation through job creation, while simultaneously enhancing the prospects of reducing outstanding municipal consumers’ debt to water and electrical companies.

Isibindi Umbumbulu – Creating Circles of Care

The National Association of Child Care Workers (NACCW) initiated a social service delivery model called “Isibindi –Creating Circles of Care”, in partnership with Durban Children's Home, the Provincial Department of Social Welfare and Population Development, along with the national departments for Health, Education and Home Affairs. The project responds to the needs of children and families made vulnerable by HIV/AIDS through training unemployed women in the community to assist designated households in a variety of avenues.

Anti-Rape Project: a Partnership with Churches

Captain T.W. Mutepe, from the Sibasa/Thohyando station in the Limpopo Province, with the blessing of the Area Commissioner and the Provincial Commissioner, partnered with the local Zion Christian Church along with the United Apostolic Church, NG Kerk Dutch Reformed Church, The Independent Pentecostal Church, and the Angelican Church for parternship in commencing an anti-rape educational programme also addressing issues of child abuse and domestic violence in order to reduce sex crimes in the area.