WHO WE SERVE

Ongoing Partners

Likho-Lona

Tembisa Ratanga

Ubuhle Babantwana Educare Centre

Skye’s Wooden Spoon

Ithemba Lempumelelo

Inzamezethu Educare Centre

DAWECY Foundation

Imfuneko Community Projects

Hlumelo Educare Centre

Past Partners

In past years, CHOSA has partnered with the following projects to provide ongoing support and monthly grants:

  • Baphumelele Children’s Home: The home which inspired the founding of CHOSA – an emergency place of safety for abandoned children, and a permanent home for children who have been orphaned.
  • Emasithandane Children’s Organisation: a home for orphaned and vulnerable children founded nearly 3 decades ago, providing care for over 35 children at a time.
  • Mandela Park Children’s Committee: a community who organized first against illegal evictions and other housing issues, and later founded the first not-for-profit daycare and pre-school in their community.
  • Qaqambani Safe Home: a home providing short-term emergency housing and care for children who have suffered from abuse or neglect, as well as long-term foster care for several children.
  • Richmond Farm Community/Amandla Esizwe: an informal settlement committed to empowering and educating their youth through a daycare center and community garden
  • Stars of Today: a community-run dance, drama, and debate group for teens living in the informal settlement of Kosovo, Phillipi.
  • TT Section Community/SA Beware: an after-school program for young people living in one of Khayelitsha’s informal settlements to learn and perform traditional Tswana and Xhosa dances.
  • Centre of Hope: Centre of Hope is a place of safety in Philippi founded by Hazel Moposela. The project started small but grew due to demand. We currently have 27 children in our care and focus on children who are HIV+ to ensure they don’t miss any clinic visits or medication. Our dedication is evident, because all of the children cared for are healthy and strong. In fact, many of the older kids she has cared for have graduated from high school and are now thriving in college – an incredible victory for a child growing up in such difficult circumstances.
  • Silulutho Educare Centre: The center, based in Mfuleni, was founded by Pumla Gigi, a community member who wanted to do something about the large number of young children roaming the streets during the day. We soon became a full-fledged pre-school, and has now developed into a formalized pre-school education center providing early childhood education to up to 200 children per day in three adjacent facilities. We also employ community members and impart job skills in early childhood development, while engaging the wider community (through leadership committees) in caring for the needs of local children.
  • Hlumelo educare centre: When Phumeza, from Crossroads, Nyanga, found out that her son was diagnosed with autism at the ageof seven,she was overwhelmed because she knew nothing about the developmental disorder. Since the diagnosis, she has gained much support and knowledge from Red Cross Children’s Hospital, where she has learned the best ways to support children with autism in learning and development. Upon returning to her community with this knowledge, she quickly began recognizing the need for knowledge around autism to become more commonplace, as these children were often neglected due to social stigma around the disorder. For this reason, she founded Hlumelo as a school for children with autism and other various physical, mental, and emotional disabilities.
  • DAWECY Foundation: DAWECY stands for Disabled Adults, Women, Children and Youth and is based in Nkanini, an informal settlement where families live in shacks and the vast majority of residents are rural-to-urban migrants from the Eastern Cape. Most families face severe food insecurity and high rates of unemployment due to structural inequalities that persist in the post-apartheid. We currently serves 34 beneficiaries. We offer educational support and life skills to the youth in our care. One of our latest programs is a creative art class, where we partner with local artists who teach the children painting, sculpting, and other forms of art. 
  • Iphupha Lam Social Welfare: Iphupha Lam Social Welfare is a non-profit project that is based in Khayelitsha in Harare. The project is operating in Isiphiwo Primary School and at the VPUU hall. We currently have 89 beneficiaries within theprogramme. Our project has various activities that include assisting children with homework, teaching them bead work, painting and computer skills. We also host holiday programmes where we do empowerment programmes for parents and the community. We also do home visits in partnership with the school when there are children that need extra care. With the help of our generous donors, we are able to provide our beneficiaries with at least one meal a day.
  • Imfuneko Projects: Imfuneko Projects is a disability and afterschool programme that operates between Masiphumelele and Fish Hoek. We are currently working with 150 individuals with physical disabilities and impairments providing care and support as well as physical and emotional stimulation. We also conduct the afterschool programme where we assist students with their school work, life skills and non-academic activities. Everyone in our care receives a daily meal thanks to our soup kitchen.
  • Inzamezethu Educare Centre: Inzamezethu Educare Centre is an ECD and afterschool centre that showers children with the love and care that they need to thrive. We cater for ages 0 – 6 in the ECD and ages 8 – 18 in the afterschool programme. Our teachers and volunteers take extra care to ensure each child is taken care of in their own unique way. We also provide nutritious daily meals to all our children and the community around us.
  • Ithemba Lempumelelo: Ithemba Lempumelelo is a skills development centre for children in under-resourced communities. We work with children who are physically disabled and impaired and teach them art skills like painting, ceramic designs and creative thinking that will allow them to pursue job opportunities.
  • Sikhululekile Reading Development and Life Skills: Sikhulukile Reading Development and Life Skills is an after-school program based in the township of Philippi that aims to provide academic support, life skills training, and opportunities for healthy friendships in a safe and uplifting after-school environment. Currently we serve 60 students in grades 4-6 through our after-school tutoring program, and 60 additional students ages 8-14 in our reading club aiming for learners to publish their own books. We  offered educational support in both Xhosa and English.
  • Skye’s Wooden Spoon: Skye’s Wooden Spoon based in Eastridge, Mitchell Plain and Vosho Endlovini, Khayelitsha. The initiatives include a feeding scheme based in Vosho that feeds approximately 250 people three days a week (700 meals a week), early childhood developmental center, a food garden and outreach programmes. The project deals with various case work, including assisting families with birth certificates and placing children back in schools. In Mitchell Plain, we runs an after-school program, outreach programs, recreational initiatives such as dance group, and refers various cases to different departments and networks. We seeks to aid children and communities through a holistic approach.

Once-off Grants

Over the years, CHOSA has provided once-off grants to fund specific needs at the following projects:

  • Amandla Ku Lutsha: a soccer league using the sport as a tool to provide education and life skills to youth in residential care and from disadvantaged communities.
  • Baphumelele Educare Centre: a holistic early childcare facility serving the Khayelitsha community.
  • Joe Slovo Daycare Centre: one of the only community-run daycare centres serving an informal settlement of over 10,000 people, which also ran a community vegetable garden.
  • Jujurha Preschool in Bhulungula: an early childhood education provider in one of the most remote and un-resourced villages in the Eastern Cape province.
  • Kennedy Road Development Committee: a community-run daycare and feeding center who were granted emergency funds in the aftermath of a malicious attack.
  • Philippi Angels Township Baseball Academy: the first baseball team from the Black townships to compete in the Baseball Association of Western Province.
  • Soundz of the South: a network of activists who use hip-hop and poetry to empower young people.
  • Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers: a group of evicted families who organized one of the
    longest civil disobedience road occupations in South African history.
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