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SACLA Health Project
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This organisation was initiated at the South African Christian Leadership Assembly, held in Pretoria in 1979. It started as a clinic addressing the lack of health services in townships. As a NGO, they faced challenges that led to the dissolution of the organisation in 2002. Community members who were directly affected by the issues of health services, decided it was best that community members take action and continue with providing the services to the community of Old Crossroads. The organisation is currently based in New Crossroads and offers a clinic and home based care to the chronically ill.
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Thoko Mtulu
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021 386 3985
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Khuthi's Home Care and Development
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Khuti's was initiated by a retired teacher and a friend in 2002. The two women saw a need to take care of the physically challenged children in the community of Khayelitsha. Their idea was that they provide support to families who ‘adopts' the children in order to ensure that they are not isolated from the rest of the community. The organisation stopped their operations in 2005 due to various challenges they faced and resumed in 2007 with a new partner. The organisation is managed by the two women with the help of 4 volunteers. Each family takes in about 8 children in their homes.
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Contact details
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Nomahlubi Njajula
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078 180 0537
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Lusizo Community Health Organisation
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Summary
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Lusizo was established by a group of women who were directly affected by the health situation in the community of Old Crossroads. They have a soup kitchen service for people who are infected with HIV/Aids in the community. Furthermore, they offer home based care support to the seriously and bed ridden members of the community. The organisation has approximately 20 women involved in various sections of the organisation.
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Contact details
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Mrs. Sindiswa Nkula
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083 880 6827
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Nonkqubela Health Club
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The club was initiated by a community member that is a former employee of the City of Cape Town: department of Water and Sanitation. Through working for the department, she attended a training that required the employees to start thinking of what they want to do for the development of their communities. The idea of starting a health club that will be responsible for raising awareness on health related matters came from attending this training. The founder then presented her idea to other community members who saw a need for such a club in the three communities that Nonkqubela works in. The club started with educating the community about cleanliness and living in healthy communities.
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Contact details
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Ms. Thandiwe Mafanya
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072 888 7684
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Thul'uzobona
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Summary
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This youth organisation focuses on sports development for the young people of the ward 35 community of Phillipi. The organisation was established based on the increasing involvement of young people in social ill behaviours such as substance abuse, crime and teenage pregnancy. The group then saw the need to get the youth involved in sports to ensure that their time is spent on developmental activities. The founders of the organization have been involved with sports since they were young and now feel that they have to give back to their community and help children to explore their talents as well as to see the youth of Philippi actively involved in sports.
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Contact details
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Mr. Masibulele Joseph
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073 711 2759
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Zimele Organisation and Community Development
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Zimele is a youth and elderly focused organisation that operates in Lower Crossroads (better known as Phillipi East). The organisation provides sports development and arts for the youth as well as nutrition programme for the elderly. The formation of the organisation arose from a need to engage young people in meaningful activities in order for them to not be victims of social ills. The organisation later realized that the elderly in the community were not well taken care of. The elderly programme was then introduced.
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Contact details
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Mr. Sithembele Petron
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078 404 3828
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Ikusasalethu Youth Development Organisation
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Ikusasalethu is one of the organisations we have been working with for the past three years. The organization was started by young people in the community who realized that there was a need of getting their peers out of the street. They provide children and youth development programmes in the community of Marcus Garvey, Philippi.
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Contact details
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Mr. Ntembeko Napakade
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079 184 7786
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Ihlumelo Youth Development Organisation
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This youth focused organisation operates at a school in Lower Crossroads. It was established as a result of one of the teachers wanting to offer extra mural activities to the learner of the school and the young people in the community joined to provide support. At a later stage, the group took over the running of the organisation. The group is fairly organised and has a structure in place that is responsible for the management of the organisation.
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Contact details
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Mr. Sikhulele Mlobeli
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076 687 3332
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Iqalile Feeding Scheme
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The organisation was started as a response to the ongoing challenge that people infected with chronic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS, High blood pressure, and TB either could not afford to feed themselves or were neglecting food before they take their medication. The organisation was started by a very committed community worker who later managed to recruit more community members who shared the same challenge with him. The organisation is currently providing nutrition through a soup kitchen to the target community of Phillipi.
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Contact details
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Nkosinathi Menziwa
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083 682 2846
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Masihoye Cleaning and Builders Community Co-operative
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The organisation started as a response to the lack of cleaning services for the community of Acacia, Phillipi. Starting with a cleaning campaign, the group realized that there were lots of young adults that were not at school and thought of starting a beading programme where young girls were taught beading skills. After realizing that the crime level was increasing in their community, they added a programme on sports for young boys to be involved in. Furthermore, they work together with another organisation on a food gardening programme for a nutritional programme. The group also has an income generating aspect through providing building and maintenance services to the community.
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Contact details
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Pinky Hali
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073 387 3960
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Sesona Sibane
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This HIV/Aids focused organisation is based in Marcus Garvey, Philippi. They started in response to the increasing rate of HIV/AIDS within the community. They offer programmes such as food gardening, sewing skills and home based care to the HIV/AIDS infected and affected families.
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Contact details
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Nomvula Oliphant
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084 218 1625
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The Shepard Ministries
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The shepherd was started in 2008 by 2 local women who were unemployed & saw the need to do something for the development of youth in the area. The main motivation was youth vulnerability to crime, HIV/AIDS & other bad activities. The first activities were dance & Drama which would be done in 1 of the women's homes. Other leader came in soon after but not much was happening other than the youth Arts activities which were not sufficiently structured (happening more loosely). Given a piece of land in the Philippi fresh market, which they had to clear off the large bush area which occupied the land & started planting crops without any prior experience & expertise.
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Contact details
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Ms. Vivienne Dyantyi
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083 764 0040
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