When a staff member at the group’s Tshwane office approached Tutu Mpungose, the driving force behind Aurecon Cares, for assistance in supporting the Masizakhe Sitjheje Isitjhaba Home-based Care Centre, she took the lead in gaining approvals and implementing a hands-on solution to addressing some of the care centre’s needs.

 

Royal Philips is continuing its programme of installing more than a hundred “Community Light Centers” across Africa with the announcement of six new centres in South Africa. 

Young children from the Othandweni Orphanage were treated to a fun afternoon of music with the Chevrolet Ute Force team, a community focused project aimed at helping children to grow through play and skills development.

  

In a unique mentoring project, Denel Industrial Properties (Deniprop) has partnered with a community group to help needy and vulnerable children, many of them orphans, in a squatter camp in Soshanguve, north of Pretoria.

It was their night - a time to be recognised, lauded, waited upon and thanked by a Minister and her Deputy for carrying a burden which children usually don’t: that of raising their siblings after their parents had died.

The kindness and commitment of a rural young postman has lead to a better life for sight-impaired people in Mpumalanga.

This year Tony Smyth, a good friend of the South African based charity The Goedgedacht Trust, along with fellow Brit Malcolm Lister, will embark on the adventure of a lifetime as they take on the famous Peking to Paris Rally. 

Huawei SA has partnered with Khulisani to launch a mobile Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Training Centre Project to provide computer skills training to schools for underprivileged, disabled children, in the South of Johannesburg.

Yesterday, Vodacom announced its third group of Change the World volunteers who have given up their daily jobs for a year to help make a difference in the lives of ordinary South Africans in need.

 

On Saturday, April 20, 2013, Safmarine received the South African Maritime Industry’s ‘Commitment to CSI’ Award for its pioneering Containers-in-the-Community programme which uses decommissioned shipping containers for community development purposes.

The Procter and Gamble Company (P&G), jointly with the Habitat for Humanity South Africa, officially handed over new houses to two families of Orange Farm.

On the eve of Human Rights Day, youth leaders from Activate!Leadership yesterday joined forces with stakeholders from the public and private as well as non-governmental sectors to launch Activate! Exchange, a dynamic think tank forum that will be rolled out across the country to engage and harness the problem-solving capacity of young leaders in all communities with focused civic action.

3 young men from the Barca Juniors football club in Kayamandi are off to Barcelona to see their heroes play this Saturday 16th March.

Friday 1 March was International Wheelchair Day and Cape Town company Adapt To Change and Avondale Primary School in Atlantis marked the day by making a donation of bread tags to the Breadtags for Wheelchairs Foundation.

Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation of the Republic of South Africa, Mr. Marius Llewellyn Fransman, and UN Resident Coordinator in South Africa, Dr. Agostinho Zacarias, launched the new United Nations Strategic Cooperation Framework 2013-2017 (SCF) at a ceremony at DIRCO earlier this week. The SCF will provide the overall framework for the work of 17 UN organisations partnering with South Africa for the next five years.

Employee Volunteer Week (EVW) is a campaign initiated in 2005 by CAF Southern Africa to encourage corporate employee volunteering in communities. EVW takes place annually during the month of March.

The multipurpose child and youth care facility, Hilary House, a project of The Homestead, based in Khayelitsha, Cape Town officially opened on 6th February.

Ten child headed families have kicked off 2013 in their own homes. These families, based in the Groblersdal area, are all orphans and rely on their elder siblings and each other for parenting support.

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Southern Africa, in partnership with Peace Starts, will host a Valentine’s ‘Give with your Heart’ Philanthropy Breakfast on Wednesday 13 February 2013, as their first fundraiser event for the year.

Businessman Patrice Motsepe announced on Wednesday his family will contribute at least half the money generated by their assets to the Motsepe Foundation.

The season of giving inspires many to resolve to help people around them and make the world a better place.

When his squatter camp shack and its contents were destroyed by fire, Boksburg gardener Joseph Moiane and his family faced a bleak and homeless Festive Season and a New Year filled with uncertainty.