"The Talana Creative Cluster presently offers a group of ladies the opportunity to create their beading and weaving crafts on site at the museum, and sell their products from the curio shop. Visitors can watch the 'working arts', interact with the ladies ...

To be the provider of affordable, accessible and quality financial services, to low-cincome people who live principally in rural and small town Southern Africa and make a positive contribution to those communities where we do business.

Our policy is to employ and empower people from the local community and to support as many local enterprises and suppliers as possible.   The Elephant House makes use of all the local markets, employs, and empowers people from the local communities ...

Handouts and charity are NOT the solution for poverty and other problems in Africa - that's been proven over and over.   What Africa really needs is education and enterprise that transforms communities so that they believe in themselves and thrive ...

Knysna is a microcosm of the economic conundrum facing South Africa i.e. the widening gap between the rich and the poor. The tremendous influx of wealth brought in to Knysna from international tourism and developments does not filter down into the local d ...

To promote youth economic development by assisting un- or underemployed youth to start or expand businesses through the provision of enterprise finance

The New Basket Workshop is a section 21, not-for-profit, company the aim of which is to provide design and product assistance to basket producers in Southern Africa. Through its activities The New Basket Workshop seeks to improve the livelihoods of basket ...

The Peech is a Fair Trade in Tourism certified hotel. This acknowledges establishments that adhere to specific criteria including fair wages and working conditions, fair distribution of benefits, ethical business practice, and respect for human rights, cu ...

The Phantom Forest project was started in 1997, with the concept of conservation funded by limited sympathetic development. Set within a private nature reserve of 147 ha., consisting of three biospheres of Afromontane Forest, Cape Coastal Fynbos and Estua ...

The Weaver's Hut shop is situated in Howick and supports and promotes crafters from local communities. The Weaver's Hut is a weaving project that was started in the 1980's with the aim to provide skills and job opportunities for the local women in the imp ...

Background - Tiisha Finance Enterprises (Tiisha) is a Section 21 Company established in 1998 and started disbursement of funds in November the same year. Khula has funded the organisation since its inception. The aim of the organisation is to provide micr ...

To give disadvantaged communities access to loans in the Eastern Cape. Tlholo would like to see 90% of microbusinesses owned by women and make sure that they participate in local economic development.   Background and Main Challenges: In September ...

ToughStuff's mission is to bring affordable energy products to people without access to electricity thereby helping to increase living standards, improve health, enhance the environment, and build enterprise and employment.   ToughStuff has developed ...

Recycled craft with social benefits. The Original Electric Oil-can Guitars are manufactured by hand to exacting musical standards. Made from selected oil cans and a combination of hard woods. The guitars are based on traditional African instruments having ...

What began as a conversation with women in the townships around Cape Town has become a unique social enterprise in the fashion industry. In 1987 Nicole-Marie Iresch, an Algerian-born executive with Air France, traveled from Paris to Cape Town on holiday. ...

Toy Project is a skills development and social project for disadvantaged women in the beautiful rural areas of the Klein Karoo and Garden Route in South Africa. Over the past 3 years our members have been trained to make 100% handmade Shweshwe soft toys ...

Founded in 1998, Tshikululu Social Investments has a philosophy of supporting organisations that show passion and determination. Our desire to back social champions is shared by our clients.   As a result, we have been entrusted with the allocation ...

The camp offers traditional, cultural huts for accommodation. The camp was started in 1998 many natural tourist attractions in the surrounding area. These include potholes and waterfalls as well as the holy forest. Visitors can also see indigenous plants ...

The Ubuntu Institute is a leading social enterprise in Southern Africa with both nonprofit and for-profit divisions. The nonprofit arm focuses on five of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG's); Education, HIV / AIDS, Gender Equality and E ...

Training and research on African Philosophy, especially Ubuntu.