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Akanani Care Centre Print E-mail
Akanani Care Centre was established in 1997 to cater for orphans and vulnerable children who are living on the streets, not attending any school and without any adult caregivers. The name “Akanani” is a Tsonga name meaning “let’s build together”. The meaning is indicative of the centre working together with the community to rebuild the lives of orphans and vulnerable children in their community.
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Makro-Maokeng Kroonstad HIV/AIDS Support Group Print E-mail
makroMAKRO is an organisation formed by the community of Maokeng to create awareness and educate its people about HIV/AIDS. Its founding members were made up of people already living with HIV/AIDS, who wanted to make a difference in their community.

The name MAKRO comes from combining ‘Maokeng’ and ‘Kroonstad’. It was chosen in honour of their township – called the Maokeng Section – and to make each person feel welcome and free to voice their status.
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Makhulong a Matala Community Development Services Print E-mail
makhulongMakhulong a Matala is a subsidiary company of the Johannesburg Housing Company (JHC) devoted to community development. Makhulong focuses on activities which have a basic and long term impact on the growth of communities in and around JHC buildings. Makhulong was established as a dedicated entity to ensure that the social and human asset building focus of JHC remains properly funded and resourced.

History
Makhulong a Matala is a non-profit subsidiary of the Johannesburg Housing Company developed as part of the JHC’s Community Development Department which started operating in 1999. Makhulong was established in 2004 to ensure that the department remains focused on the social issues close to the JHC’s heart.
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Khulumani Support Group Print E-mail
khulumaniThe Khulumani Support Group is an assembly of survivors and families of victims of the political conflict of South Africa's Apartheid past. The group first came under the international spotlight when they filed a lawsuit in November 2002 in a District Court of New York against corporations and banks, alleging that they had aided and encouraged the Apartheid South African government in enabling acts of gross human rights violations.

The corporations named in the suits included oil companies such as BP and Exxon Mobil, banks such as Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and UBS, as well as other multi-nationals such as IBM, General Motors and Ford.
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Iketsetseng Self Help Association of Disabled Print E-mail
iketsetsengIketsetseng Self Help Association of Disabled is a non-profit organisation formed by disabled people to help and support each other. So many people living with disabilities are unemployed even though they are capable of doing the job. But because they are disabled they are discriminated against and are regarded as incompetent.  Iketsetseng Self Help Association of Disabled aims to help make disabled people employable through training.
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Bohlale Youth Club Print E-mail
botlhaleBohlale Youth Club is a non-profit organisation formed by the youth in Kroonstad to inform and educate about the negative implications of crime, using drugs and teenage pregnancy.  Most of the organisation’s members were also victims of wrong doings, and thus remain motivated to help youths within their community.
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Ahanang Soup Kitchen Print E-mail
ahanangAhanang Soup Kitchen is a non-profit organisation dedicated to caring for and feeding orphan children of HIV/AIDS victims. It was formed and is still run by a group of women in Koekoe Village in Kroonstad who not only feed the orphans, but also the elderly and those suffering from HIV/Aids who can no longer take care of themselves.
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AVP - Alternatives to Violence Project Print E-mail

alternatives-to-violenceAlternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a non-profit organisation that originated in New York in 1975 when prisoners tried to reduce conflict inside and outside of prisons. They also worked with youths. The original body collaborated with the Quaker Project on community conflict, which resulted in the establishment of the AVP.

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Phekong Health Centre & Art and Culture Print E-mail
gladys_webPhekong Health Centre & Art and Culture is a non-profit organisation which was started in aid of the many people, including senior citizens, who were suffering from HIV/AIDS, chronic diseases and neglect by their families.
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Age-In-Action The SA Council for the Aged Print E-mail
Age-In-Action is a developed organisation who collaborate with other stakeholders to restore the dignity of older persons through advocacy and lobbying, research and technology, training and development and economic empowerment activities.
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Sophakama Community Based Development Care and Support Programme Print E-mail

Brenda Lalela‘Sophakama’, as it is affectionately known in its community, means “we will rise”. Sophakama is a small community based organisation that serves the Joe Slovo Township and the Kwa Duse informal settlement in Port Elizabeth. At present Sophakama operates from the Joe Slovo Secondary School.

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The Land Access Movement of South Africa (LAMOSA) Print E-mail

The Land Access Movement of South Africa (LAMOSA) is a community based organization (CBO) advocating for land and agrarian rights. It was founded by people who were forcefully removed from their lands in the prime of Apartheid. It has been part of South Africa's land reform programme since its inception. LAMOSA advocates for a legislative and policy framework that seeks to undo the unequal society created by racist measures emanating from our past.

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Re Athusa Print E-mail

athusaIn Mpepule village, approximately 30 minutes from Giyani  along the road to Tzaneen, in Limpopo, South Africa, 20 women of different ages deliver Home Based Care to their fellow community members. The women started out as volunteers to clean and maintain the local clinic but after having attended a training workshop in Home Based Care they decided to start delivering the service to the community. One of the care givers explains: “We started out as volunteers to clean the clinic, but then the man came from Giyani and trained us in Home Based Care… Some people left the organisation but we see that our people is very sick so we encourage ourselves, we must help them”.

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