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Help us get a community relief shuttle to Keep Hope Alive in Disadvantaged Communities

We help fight key issues affecting disadvantaged communities in South Africa – and we need your help to Keep Hope Alive! Right now, we support communities across Cape Town battling extreme problems and are working to end the cycle of poverty, hunger and violence in disadvantaged communities.  We need your donations to help us continue

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Importance of Creating Food Sovereignty & Food Sustainability in South Africa

In South Africa, we suffer from a severe lack of access to food. The South African National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2016 found that nearly 25% of South Africans were being deprived of food, while another 25% faced the risk of going hungry in the near future. Some of the major causes of

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How does Gender-based violence affect South African Townships?

South Africa is, sadly, severely affected by Gender-based violence and according to the WHO, has one of the highest rates of GBV.  In a country with an Apartheid history and continued high-levels of poverty, this issue affects the whole nation, however, poverty increases the risk of Gender-based violence. In poorer communities , violence can be

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Cape Town Soup Kitchen Partnership to Fight Africa’s Hunger Crisis

South Africa has a huge hunger crisis. In 2019, 11% of the South African population (6.5 million people) were suffering from hunger according to Stats SA.  In July of 2020 a report was handed in to the Western Cape government, looking at the worsening hunger crisis in the city. The report took feedback from NGOs

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