Impact · 2017 – 2026

Nearly a decade of community-led change.

Grassroots programming that translates into households strengthened, young people employed and communities that speak for themselves.

40

Youth in learnerships

45+

Livelihoods created

8

Volunteers → paid roles

9+

Years serving communities

Achievements

What we've delivered

Employment & Economic Empowerment

  • Placed 40 unemployed youth (18–28) from Potsdam Village, Phumlani, SANTA and Mdantsane into accredited learnerships.
  • Created livelihoods for 45+ community members through food security and agriculture.
  • Supported women, youth, older persons and vulnerable households with income opportunities.
  • Helped 8 community volunteers transition into salaried employment after training and mentorship.

Food Security & Poverty Alleviation

  • Established and supported community food gardens and household food production.
  • Implemented food security programmes benefiting vulnerable households.
  • Promoted nutrition education and sustainable agricultural practices.
  • Strengthened community resilience against hunger and poverty.

GBV Prevention & Human Rights

  • Facilitated community awareness campaigns addressing GBVF.
  • Supported the establishment and strengthening of community safe spaces.
  • Promoted human rights awareness and community dialogue.
  • Mobilised communities to challenge harmful norms and violence.

HIV Prevention & Community Health

  • Conducted HIV prevention and awareness campaigns.
  • Supported stigma reduction and treatment literacy.
  • Established Adolescent & Youth Friendly Services with Potsdam Clinic.
  • Ran school-based sanitary pad distribution and reproductive health programmes.

From the field

Moments from our work

Young beetroot seedlings taking root in neat rows of freshly worked soil
Young beetroot seedlings taking root
Volunteers at work tending beds in the Imveli community garden plot
Community garden plot with volunteers at work
Community members working together in the garden with village houses behind them
Community members working together in the garden
Rows of carrots and herbs thriving in the community garden
Rows of carrots and herbs thriving in the community garden
A healthy crop of mature cabbages ready to be harvested for the community
A healthy cabbage harvest ready for the community
Bunches of freshly harvested beetroot from the community garden laid out on the grass
Freshly harvested beetroot from our community garden
Staff members holding a fresh harvest of spinach and other leafy greens
Staff members with a fresh harvest of leafy greens
Volunteers celebrating a bountiful mixed vegetable harvest together
Volunteers celebrating a bountiful vegetable harvest
Young participants posing together at an Imveli programme session
Participants at an Imveli programme session
A group celebrating together after an Imveli training and programme session
Group celebrating after a training/programme session

Partners

Working alongside

  • Heartlines
  • Khulisa Solutions
  • Department of Agriculture, Eastern Cape
  • Department of Health Potsdam Clinic
  • Eastern Cape Provincial AIDS Council
  • Local Businesses
  • Local and National NGOs
  • Small Project Foundation
  • National and International NGOs
  • Buffalo Metro
  • Potsdam Clinic
  • Isisombululo Solution NPO
  • Local schools
  • Faith-based organisations
  • SAPS: Inyibiba Police Station

Next five years

Where we're going

  • Strengthen and scale age-appropriate HIV prevention for children and adolescents aged 5–14 years — building knowledge and life skills, promoting healthy and safe relationships, reducing risk and stigma, and strengthening protective factors at home, school and in the community.
  • Facilitate access to HIV testing and counselling services, including provider-initiated, community-based, self-testing and targeted testing for priority and underserved populations.
  • Scale combination-prevention access for adolescents and adults — condom programming, sexual and reproductive health education, PrEP, PEP, VMMC and STI prevention — alongside clinical partners.
  • Strengthen support for people living with HIV and affected families through mental-health and psychosocial support, treatment literacy, disclosure support, stigma reduction, social-protection referrals and community-led adherence initiatives.
  • Strengthen training and research around evidence-based GBVF primary-prevention models — generating, adapting, evaluating and disseminating evidence capable of informing policy and programme development, addressing root causes of gender-based violence and promoting gender-equitable norms, healthy relationships and protective factors.
  • Strengthen programme monitoring, evaluation and community engagement across HIV and GBVF work to improve service quality, identify gaps, reach underserved populations and support responsive, equitable and sustainable programmes.
  • Expand food security and livelihood programmes.
  • Grow youth employment and learnership opportunities.
  • Deepen research and evidence-generation.
  • Build stronger partnerships across government, donors and private sector.