Causes supported

Cotlands’ mission is to provide exceptional models of care to children and their families by empowering them to improve their quality of life through specialised interventions and sustainability projects. Cotlands’ ultimate goal is to equip families to care for their children at home and to achieve this they ensure that these families have the right skills and sufficient resources. Cotlands’ programmes focus on health, poverty alleviation and nutrition but have also added education as a critical component in providing a foundation for children’s lifelong learning and work opportunities.

Habitat for Humanity South Africa (HFHSA) is a non-profit housing organisation that falls under the umbrella of Habitat for Humanity International – a worldwide organisation seeking to provide simple, decent and affordable housing to communities throughout the world. A unique feature of HFHSA as an organisation is that it partners with community groups or other organisations to help address an identified housing need. HFHSA’s vision is the same as the international one: “A world in which every person has a decent place to live.”

Project Literacy was established to address the needs of illiterate and semi-literate adults in South Africa. It is now a well-established and highly respected non-governmental organisation (NGO) with vast expertise in the provision of a wide range of Education and Training programmes. Project Literacy’s mission statement is to deliver a wide range of adult basic education and training programmes to educationally disadvantaged adults by way of adult education centres, teacher training, curriculum development and community outreach. Project Literacy’s current vision is to effect Broadbased Black Social and Economic Empowerment in South Africa through high quality Education and Training programmes.

SCORE is a non-profit, non-governmental community development organisation using sport as a medium of development. SCORE focuses on children and youth living in underprivileged communities and implements sports and sport development programmes. But SCORE also utilises sport as a powerful medium to bring about sustainable community development, individual empowerment and social transformation, and to build international and intercultural understanding.

Nazareth House cares for 35 babies and children (as well as the frail and aged). The home is entrusted with caring for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs - they provide 24 hour care, housing, nutritious food, clothing, education, specialised nursing and medication. The children here usually live long past their “medically expected lifespan” because of this, and the TLC that they receive from the Sisters and staff. All eligible children started on an anti-retroviral drugs programme on the 1st of March 2004. This is having a huge impact on their well being and their ability to fight opportunistic infections. Nazareth House strives to provide the children with as normal a life as possible. They attend the local nursery and primary schools, have fun playing in the gardens, riding bikes, going on outings, baking cakes, reading, watching TV and listening to music.