PROJECTS
Projects that MAGI has funded:ABERDEEN ADVICE OFFICE
Aberdeen Advice Office has been running since 2000 in the township section of Aberdeen, a small rural town in the Eastern Cape.
The office assists with the following:
-Understanding of human rights
-Farmworker Rights
-Youth Development
-Workshops of Domestic Violence, Black History, Human Rights, Youth Development
AFRICA UNITE
The project seeks to bring youth together in dialogue and practical activity to dispel prejudice and to encourage a spirit of solidarity and unity amongst the youth, regardless of their geographical location of birth.
Focusing on the message ‘Refugee rights are human rights’, the project will use training, organized interactions, networking, lobbying and advocacy to advance the construction of a social and political environment in which the rights of non-nationals, set out in the South African Constitution and the Bill of Rights, are promoted and protected.
Africa Unite runs the following projects:
· Youth HIV/AIDS project: Goal to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS issues amongst youth.
· Savings scheme project: Goal to improve the culture of saving through the youth.
· Youth science and mathematics projects:
· Human rights and life skills awareness project:
· Cultural activities
MAGI has funded the peer educators for the Human Rights and role back xenophobia campaign. The campaign aims to:
· run peer education training weekend workshop for 25 youth from different communities in Cape Town
· continually coach and mentor the peer educators. Each of the peer educators is tasked with organising one or more human rights/refugee rights workshops to reach at least 50 people.
· to facilitate structured debates between the youth, schools, civic, religious leaders to promote dialogue and create awareness around Xenophobia and discriminationARESTA (Agency for Refugee Education, Skills, Training & Advocacy)
The project was part of the refugee forum from 1996 and became independent as ARESTA in 2001. ARESTA fits into the network of refugee support services in the Western Cape as the provider of career support and counselling and as the service provider for skills training for Refugees.
Clients are mostly referred through the Dept of Home Affairs.
Services include:
-Counselling & guidance for education & employment. This includes refugee rights awareness (+/- 1000 people seen per year)
-English lessons (2 basic classes & 1 advanced class for 9-12pm for 4½ months to 125 refugees twice annually)
-Sewing & beading classes (36 women annually attend a 5 month training course Mon-Thurs). They are in the process of opening a small shop
-ARESTA runs quarterly 5 day workshops for 12 women on Domestic Violence training of trainers and quarterly HIV/AIDS training for counselors and caregivers of infected refugees.
-Advocacy events for: youth day, Africa day, world refugee day, world aids day, national womens day and 16 days of activism
-Income generating workshops to enable refugees to start businesses (3 groups of 12 refugees to attend a 5 day course)ATLANTIS ATHLETICO
Atlantis Athletico was started in January 2002 and runs soccer and a pool program for children, youth and adults in Atlantis. Both these programs are affiliated to local leagues.
Members are referred to the club through various channels for rehabilitation or simply to give them an option out of high risk circumstances.
The organisation has experienced councillors who contribute towards the rehabilitation process for the kids. The club teaches life skills, self control and conflict management and allows them to participate in sport with all the other benefits that it provides.BEAUFORT WEST ADVICE OFFICE
The Beaufort West Advice Office has been running since February 2002 in the township of Kwa-Mandlenkosi, in Beaufort West.
The advice office serves an area of approximately 38 000 people and assists with the following:
-Social service grants – procedures to apply, types of grants and how to lodge a complaint
-Evictions on farms – assisting farmworkers & working with farmers and the Dept of Labour
-Human Rights – support with refugee rights and gay and lesbian rights
-ESTA
-Consumer rights cases
BEYOND EXPECTATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT
The project was started by Lindela Mjenxane who is a guide on the luxury Hoerikwagga table mountain trail for Sanparks. He decided that he wanted youth from his community to be able to experience the beauty of nature and Table mountain.
He has started taking groups of roughly 25 youth from Gugulethu and Phillipi on a 2 day overnight weekend hike up Table mountain.
The project uses the hike to talk to the youth about environmental issues such as water conservation and littering and later as relationships grow they focus on topics such as HIV awareness, abuse, dreams.
After the hike a few youth are chosen to lead the clubs in their school with the idea of growing environmental awareness.BONNE ESPERANCE REFUGEE PROJECT
Bonne Esperance is a home for newly arrived refugee women and children (girls and boys aged 12 and under) in Cape Town. The project prepares the women for social integration into South Africa and ensures that the children are integrated into the school system.
Women and children are included in a database when they arrive and an assessment is done on their medical, social, vocational & materials needs. Referrals and other provisions are given based on the assessment. All women receive a personal profile and a cv at the end of their stay at Bonne Esperance.
The shelter has 40 beds. Women are from countries such as Burundi, DRC, Rwanda, Uganda, Somalia and Zimbabwe
The services that Bonne Esperance offer include:
-Shelter for women and children (including food, welcome packs, toiletries and clothing)
-Needs assessment
-Training & workshops for women (monthly)
-Schooling (crèche) and school needs for refugee children
-Women’s empowerment programme (parenting, hygiene, reproductive health, healing of memories)
-Women and children are allowed to stay for up to 6 months at Bonne Esperance.CAPE TOWN REFUGEE CENTRE
The Cape Town Refugee Centre (CTRC) supports vulnerable refugees and asylum seekers in the Western Cape.
CTRC services include:
-Psycho-social Intervention ( vulnerable and needy clients are assisted with accommodation, food stamps, counselling and other needs)
-Education for children (helps children of school going age with school fees, uniform and stationery so that they can attend school)
-Empowerment and Self-reliance programme (clients are exposed to practical and technical skills and those who are business oriented are engaged in income generating ventures by offering them small loans)
-Integrated awareness and community education programme
MAGI has funded the Integrated awareness and community education programme.FIKELELA AIDS PROJECT
Fikelela is a centre for abandoned and orphaned children to be nursed back to health and then to be placed in a suitable foster homes in the community, in Khayelitsha.
Foster parents are recruited from the community and are screened by the Nat Assoc of child care workers, and the children are introduced gradually to the foster parents (days, then weekends, then full time). Foster parents of HIV+ children receive thorough training by their nurse. Foster care placement of all children is monitored on a regular basis by the centres auxiliary social worker and foster carers undergo continued training. They are also supported with food and clothing parcels until the foster grant is received.
The project was started in 2001 and currently has 27 children at the centre and 42 children in supported foster care. 50 Children will pass through the centre in 2007.
Activities provided for the children include art and music therapy as well as a pre-school for 3-5 year olds.
HELPING HANDS HIV SUPPORT
Founded in 2003 the project is involved in HIV/AIDS work in Nyanga and does the following:
-Support groups (weekly for around 40-60) people
-One on one counseling (Fridays for around 30-40 people) (occasionally supported by a qualified counsellor)
-Home based care (daily) 90 people
-Soup kitchens for sick (Monday to Friday for 90 people)HESA (Health Empowerment & Social Development for AIDS)
The project is involved in HIV work in Elsies River in the Western Cape, with the following:
-Trains and manages carers of OVC’s. Training in parental and financial skills.
-The project does a needs analysis and assessment of the foster parents and provides support where needed through food packs, training, assistance in getting registered for the foster parent grant.
-This includes ‘sponsor an orphan’ programme which provides R180 a month to carers (under strict conditions) as a stop gap until they are registered for the foster care grant. This funding is received from a number of individuals and is mobilized through the Warehouse.
-Runs OVC programmes (including camps) and a weekly girls meeting with life skills training
-The project provides support for people with HIV/AIDS through weekly support groups and treatment supporters (for anti-retrovirals). Support includes life skills, crafts and counselling.
HOUT BAY MUSIC PROJECT
Founded in 2003 the project teaches music to children from the communities of Imizamo Yethu and Hangberg in Hout Bay. The project teaches mostly string instruments and drumming and has a lifeskills component.
The project aims to provide a platform for the natural and meaningful interaction of children from diverse backgrounds and over 100 children will benefit from the project.
The life skills program is run by Ikamva Youth and covers issues like relationships, goal setting, sexuality, HIV Aids, Self Awareness, substance abuse, crime & team building.
Activities of the project include:
-Violin project (5 times a week)
-Cello project (4 times a week)
-Drumming, life skills, theory (weekly)
-Senior and junior performing ensemble (3 times a week)
-Monthly exposure to professional theatre
-Regular income producing performance (3 times a month)INGQAYI EDUCATIONAL THEATRE PROJECT
The project was founded in Sep 2005 and creates theatre productions with dance, music and drama as well as running theatre development workshops in Nyanga.
Performances are often based on community issues and themes such as HIV/AIDSJANSENVILLE ADVICE OFFICE
Jansenville Advice Office has been running since 1998 in Jansenville, a small rural town in the Eastern Cape.
The advice office serves an area of approximately 10 000 people and assists with the following:
-Social service grants – procedures to apply, types of grants and how to lodge a complaint
-Evictions on farms – assisting farmworkers & working with farmers and the Dept of Labour
-Workshops around HIV/AIDS, labour rights.JIKELEZA DANCE PROJECT
Founded in 2002 the project teaches dance and life skills to children from Imizamo Yethu and Hangberg in Hout Bay, Nyanga and the Learn-to-live street children project from the CBD.
Over 200 children receive high quality dance and music training as well as the opportunity to perform.KHUMBULANI CENTRE
Khumbulani centre was founded in 2000 and:
-Provides a support group for 20 HIV/AIDS people (meet twice a week) The support group is made up of 6 men and 14 women
-Provides a day care and after school services for HIV/AIDS affected and infected children and others. There are 120 children from age of 0-5
-Has a vegetable garden and soup kitchen for those on ARV’s (fed twice a week)KLIPPLAAT ADVICE OFFICE
Klipplaat Advice Office has been running since 1999 in the ‘ghost town’ of Klipplaat in the rural Eastern Cape. This town used to be a thriving railway junction with 2 banks, 3 butcheries and a few clothing stores amongst other shops and industry. The railway line was diverted in 1992 & almost all residents who had options of work somewhere else, left the town. Almost all industry in the town disappeared. The advice office serves an area including 1200 sites (or houses) and around 7500 people. The office assists with the following:
-Social service grants – procedures to apply, types of grants and how to lodge a complaint
-Domestic & family violence – work with SAPS to inform victims of steps to take to prosecute offenders
-Evictions on farms – assisting farmworkers, working with the Dept of Labour
-Consumer law – assisting customers with unfair business practices
-Workshops around HIV/AIDS, ESTA and domestic violence
LAMBERTS BAY AIDS NETWORK
The Lamberts Bay AIDS network was founded in 2003 in Lamberts Bay and is involved in implementation of community based care and support programmes for children, youth and families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS. The project does the following:
· To provide Food parcels to families infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
· To provide material support to children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
· Networking with local community structures.
· Provide capacity building programmes to peer educators
· Various awareness programmes directed at children, youth and families
· Organizational and management training and development
MAGI has funded the programme in a number of towns in the Cedarberg to create awareness around HIV/AIDs and encourage people to get counselled and tested.LUVUYOLWETHU
The project was started in 2001 as a community response to HIV/AIDS in Nyanga.
The project provides:
-Home Based Care – Luvuyolwethu has 12 fulltime volunteer HBC workers and support up to 126 people with HIV/AIDS. They provide weekly food parcels for 52 people.
-Support group for people living with HIV/AIDS, including a beadwork project, counselling & food when possible
-Workshops – Luvuyolwethu leads 3 workshops per month for people in the community. They use a local hall for these workshops and they are normally facilitated by the project co-ordinator.
MBEKWENI COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
Situated in Mbewkeni, on the outskirts of Paarl the project aims to contribute to the improvement of health care in the community. This includes:
· practical training and awareness raising: train the trainer, peer educators, workshops etc
· providing information: on health issues, HIV/AIDS, nutrition & domestic violence
· referrals
· The project also runs a number of advocacy events including World AIDS day, Condom week, World TB day
MUSIC IN THE ORCHARDS
Music in the Orchards is a project to provide music opportunities to children from rural schools around Elgin and Grabouw in the Western Cape.
Music interventions take place at schools thus bringing music to classrooms. Learners are taught music appreciation, music theory, song and dance movements.
PATCH / HELDERBURG CHILD ABUSE CENTRE
PATCH has 8 offices in the Helderburg region.
They support between 330-350 victims of sexual abuse each year with:
· Therapy
· Medication
· court preparation
The organisations reaches around 8000 youth per year through it's awareness programmes in High Schools.
MAGI has funded the project to run programmes on farms in the Helderburg region. The programme would use the Sara series books (UNICEF) and dvd's in creating awareness and informing youth around child abuse and HIV/AIDS.
THE PATH OUT OF POVERTY PROGRAMME
The project consists of a number of anti poverty projects for farmworkers and their children namely:
· Documentation – a community worker employed to visit farms and help farmworkers get documentation in order to access social grants.
· A crèche and pre-school & After school support for children
· Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) workshops for pregnant women & Parenting training skills
· A community centre for farmworkers & youth centre
· A bursary system for vulnerable children and AIDS orphans
· Home Based Care – 15 trained carers
· Organic vegetable gardening training
· Sport clubs – netball and rugby (90 members)
· Job creation projects
MAGI has funded the project to train members of the community to conduct an enumeration survey in the villages of Riebeek West and Riebeek Kasteel in the Swartland. The purpose of the study is to identify community needs to be able to provide leverage in discussions with service providers and local authorities.
PHAKAMA COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT
Founded in 2000 the project is involved in HIV/AIDS work in Nyanga and does the following:
-Support groups (weekly) 24 people
-Orphans programme – Saturday entertainment & meals
-Home based care (daily) – 5 HB Carers at present.
-Soup kitchens (daily) – 45 children & 24 adults
-Women support group – 28 women meet twice a week
-HIV awareness through dance, workshops & educational talksSANPARKS TRADITIONAL HEALERS GROUP
The project consists of a group of traditional healers who have been granted the use of a piece of land on the slopes of Table Mountain and are currently undergoing training in plant productionSCALABRINI CENTRE – SUPPORT FOR REFUGEE CHILDREN
The Scalabrini Centre runs 2 homes for abandoned refugee children. Lawrence House (20 primary school children) and Ale’s house (7 high school children)
MAGI is funding support for a free time and extra mural programme for the children.
Each child participates in at least 1 extra mural activity. Activities include ballet and hip hop, swimming lessons, karate, singing, art, basketball and soccer.
In addition they aim to have 25 weekend outings during the course of the year and provide a drumming, dance and song workshop at the home weekly performed by a group of traditional African musicians.SINETHEMBA
The project provides home based care in the Swartland area to, TB patients, HIV/AIDS patients, elderly and chronically ill.
The project also assists with taking patients to the clinic monthly; HIV/AIDS support groups and is has a HIV/AIDS awareness programme at schools and youth organisations in the areas around Malmesbury.ST MARY MAGDALENE HIV/AIDS TASK TEAM
The task team was started in October 2005 as part of this church in Gugulethu’s response to HIV/AIDS and OVC’s.
The project has 2 focuses:
Orphans – the team supports 150 OVC’s with food parcels (60 receive food parcels), clothing, hygiene packs, holiday clubs, a camp, counselling and a weekly support group. The field worker also evaluates the situation of the the orphans and assists carers to obtain grants for the children.
A support group for people living with HIV/AIDS. 60 people meet twice a week for support and a meal. They also receive food packs, counselling & share skills such as beading and sewing. The group is also part of an 11 module bereavement course.
SWIM FOR LIFE
This project was developed because the Rural primary schools in the area have little or no extramural activities and so children often swim in farm dams, but have no ability to swim themselves or rescue someone.
This results in many farm drownings annually.
This project teaches children water safety and swimming. Children are also taught basic lifesaver techniques.
The pool is situated at the Elgin Learning Foundation which is centrally situated to rural farm schools.
THE TRINITY PROJECT – MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME
The Trinity Project runs a mentorship programme for 30 grade 10 youth from communities across the Cape flats. At present the communities are: Khayelitsha, Mannenburg, Gugulethu & Hanover Park.
The 3 goals (trinity) are:
-To increase awareness of HIV/AIDS and to encourage prevention & treatment.
-To demonstrate the power of the ARTS as an agent of change – to enhance components of health, social well-being and education.
-To demonstrate the reciprocal benefits of collaboration among education, the arts and social & cultural sectors.
The programme is 12 months in length and also offers assistance with recreational, art and academic development.
The programme entails Saturday workshops (every second Sat) and weekly group work with mentors and one on one sessions.
Mentors are older 'young people' from around the Western Cape who want to bring about change.
During the course, learners are exposed to 2 camps and 22 Saturday workshops dealing with issues like: leadership, HIV/AIDS, teamwork, family, peer education etc and includes visits to projects supporting HIV positive people.UMOJA SEWING AND BEADING
The project focuses on sustainable economic development for women through:
-Skills development – training in sewing, beadwork, felt making, ceramic decoration, textile painting, crocheting and basic leatherwork
-Income generating activities – most women that complete the training are employed by the centre.
WHOLE WORLD WOMEN ASSOCIATION
The organisation was founded in 2002 as a self help support group for refugee women in the Western Cape.
The primary purpose of the project is to empower refugee women and improve their self image, self esteem & quality of life. Initiatives include:
-Whole World Women Life Writing Project – writing takes place through occasional workshops and regular meetings. The project is in the process of publishing a book -15 members attended all workshops
-Theatre & cultural group – 9 members who play traditional African instruments & song
-Trauma counselling – the group has 2 trained counselors and 4 lay counselors and intend to start a trauma counseling unit
-Skills Development – the group would like to be able to offer access to established skills development programs (Small Bus Dev, Computers, home based care etc)
-Healing of memories workshops – the group sends members on these workshops at the Institute for the Healing of Memories (up to now they have been mostly paid for by the institute with contributions from members
-Advocacy – lobbying government, private & public institutions on the plight of refugee women
WITZENBERG ADVICE OFFICE
Founded in Ceres in 1994 the project has a HIV office with:
-Support groups – Adult Groups for people living with HIV/AIDS
-Peer educators and school programmes – peer educators make the school HIV friendly, establish support groups, organise awareness campaigns, attend community meetings & make referrals.HIV -Outreach team – this is a group of youth that perform dance. They use the group to attract youth to performances and then use peer educators to meet and talk with the youth. The group is mentored by a well known dancer in the community.
-Advocacy and training
-Parent communication programme
