VISION
THE AWARDS CYCLE
SILVER
14 projects were awarded Silver in 2008
Fikelela AIDS Project
Many churches in South Africa lack a systematic response to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. Fikelela AIDS Project sought to change this. Founded in 2002, Fikelela mobilises the Anglican Community in three dioceses of Cape Town, False Bay and Saldanha Bay. Through using local churches to run HIV/AIDS Task Teams, preventative programmes and care for orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), Fikelela provides an active Christian response to the pandemic.
SCAT: HIV/ AIDS Activator Programme
The Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT) is an independent, Cape Town-based fundraising and grant-making development organization, established in 1985. It plays a supportive intermediary role for local community-based organizations called LDAs, facilitating access to resources for them. SCAT works in the rural areas of the Eastern, Northern and Western Cape and some parts of the Free State and North West provinces.
Farm Workers Care for Each Other Project
The Hoedspruit Training Trust runs The Farm Workers Care for Each Other Project that was established in 2003. It is a HIV/ AIDS programme that targets farm workers that include foreign migrants and their families in the commercial agricultural sector in Hoedspruit, Limpopo.
READY (Reintegration and Diversion for Youth)
The purpose of sentencing and imprisonment should be the successful reintegration of the offender and studies have shown that juveniles are more receptive to positive influences and reform than adult prisoners and are thus kept separately from adult offenders in correctional facilities. The successful rehabilitation of offenders has become a priority for the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) because of the rate of prisoners who re-offend after their sentence being between 85 and 94% in South Africa
Western Cape Networking AIDS Community of South Africa
The Western Cape Networking AIDS Community of South Africa (WC-NACOSA) came about in 2001 after the national organization (NACOSA) dissolved in 1992. It serves the need for effective dialoguing, capacity-building, and networking in the provincial HIV/ AIDS community and the relevant government departments. These three issues constitute the services WC-NACOSA provides to various NGOs that work in the HIV/ AIDS sector.
Stop Gender Violence Helpline Project
The SGVHP is a programme coordinated by LifeLine Southern Africa in Braamfontein, Gauteng. It was established in 1999 as the ‘Stop Women Abuse Helpline’ but because of the prevalence of abuse emerging from both genders, they changed their name and approach in 2004. The SGVHP is toll-free and provides anonymous, confidential and accessible counselling, information and referral services to survivors, witnesses and perpetrators of gender-based violence. It operates between 07H00-21H00 for five days a week (Monday-Friday)
Drakenstein Hospice
The Drakenstein Hospice was established as the Paarl Hospice in 1991. They changed their name in 2003 to accurately reflect the area that they serve. This area is the Drakenstein Health District, District 2 of the Westcoast-Winelands area. A peri-rural area with a population of 200 000. It includes two larger and three smaller towns including the surrounding farm districts.
Collegial Cluster Project
Over 56% of South Africa’s maths teachers are not properly qualified. Rhodes University Mathematics Education Project (RUMEP), an NGO based at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, aims to improve the quality of mathematics teaching and learning in previously disadvantaged areas by establishing Collegial Clusters that give teachers the opportunity to share their strategies and experiences teaching mathematics.
Emalahleni Water Reclamation Project
Emalahleni Local Municipality draws water from the Witbank Dam to meet its domestic, commercial and industrial needs. However, the municipality is extracting more water than is permitted from the Dam and is still experiencing water shortages. In response to this problem, the municipality entered into partnership with Anglo Operations Limited to begin a water reclamation project in July 2005.
Amplifying Community Voices in Makhado Municipality
Poor participation of communities in municipal affairs and business is a serious impediment to sustainable development in Makhado Municipality. Confusion of roles often causes conflict between Ward Councillors, Traditional Leaders, and other community-based organizations. The University of Venda (UNIVEN) is striving to address these problems by facilitating cooperation and promoting grassroots level community ownership for development initiatives.
New Africa Theatre Academy
The New Africa Theatre Academy (NATA) was established in 1987 and seeks to address the need for professional performing arts training among talented black youth from the Western Cape region. NATA offers young adults from impoverished communities a one-year, full-time training program in the performing arts at a nominal fee.
The Cata Project-Where all the streams come together
The Cata Project is an integrated development project that began in 2003 in the rural village of Cata, a village of 2000 people outside of East London. In 2001, 43% of the households in Cata had no source of income, 2% of inhabitants were employed (44 people), and only 100 people from the village had passed matric. The Cata project is and initiative of the Border Rural Committee (BRC) and is managed by the BRC and the Cata Communal Property Association, a resident association.
Nakimpilo-Care for Life
The project started in 2003, when health workers and local NGO/CBO workers met to discuss the community’s lack of access to health care with regard to HIV. The result was the formation of the Umdoni and Vulamehlo HIV/AIDS Association, registered as a Non-Profit Organization in 2004.
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