Community & Impact

At night, Albert Luthuli Street in Langa is a hive of activity, with traders serving up freshly prepared street food. For years, this vibrant food economy has relied on candles and gas lamps, creating unsafe, unreliable and stressful working conditions for the informal traders – women who work well past midnight. A new pilot project

To significantly expand access to affordable, quality primary healthcare in underserved communities, the Cipla Foundation’s Sha’p Left initiative has partnered with the FirstRand Empowerment Foundation (FREF). The partnership aims to aggressively scale the cost-effective nurse-driven surgeries in local communities, across the Western Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng. HEALTHCARE CLOSER TO HOME This collaboration will help to

South Africa’s unemployment crisis is among the most urgent challenges of our time. More than half of young people are locked out of the economy, not for lack of talent but for lack of access to opportunity. In underresourced schools and communities, the disparity in resources is stark. Learners often face overcrowded classrooms, outdated infrastructure

Across South Africa and beyond, hunger is not a distant issue — it is a daily reality. It affects children, the elderly, and families striving to make ends meet, often stripping them of both health and dignity. For many, the question of where the next meal will come from is constant. Ashraful Aid is working

The Kolisi Foundation is celebrating six years of impact with the launch of a new national initiative aimed at making giving more accessible to everyday South Africans. Since its establishment in 2020, the Foundation has made significant strides across food security, education, sport, and gender-based violence prevention, reaching thousands of people nationwide. As socio-economic challenges

As pressure mounts on South Africa’s education system, a targeted classroom intervention programme led by the Global Centre for Change Foundation (GCC) is working directly with teachers and learners in the Cape Flats to improve engagement and learning outcomes. In schools across the Deep South of Cape Town, teachers are managing classrooms of up to

While Easter is often synonymous with family gatherings and chocolate treats, for many children in under-resourced communities, these traditions remain out of reach. Local organisation Bana Ba Kgotso is working to bridge this gap, completing its latest campaign to ensure the children of Tembisa experience the festive spirit through a unique community-driven model. Since its

In many classrooms, poor eyesight goes unnoticed, quietly holding children back from reaching their full potential. For learners at Prestwich Street Primary School in Cape Town, that reality has now changed thanks to the work of the Alive Foundation. The non-profit organisation recently conducted vision screenings as part of its Clear Vision for Learning Project,