• Education and training (e.g. leadership development)
  
• Empowerment and income generation (e.g. craftwork, agriculture)
  
• Community projects (e.g. orphanages, food kitchens)

1. African Leadership Development Institute (ALDI)  Leadership Training, Empowerment, Income generation
2. Bethesda Arts Centre              
   Centre for Arts education and health
3. Sakhumzi
   Orphanage
4. WARMTH
   Feeding / entrepreneurship scheme
5. The Masikhulisane Trust
   Poverty alleviation, job creation
6. Bonginkosi Preschool
   Preschool for children from extremely deprived families
7. GADRA visually impaired project
   Helping visually impaired people
8. Sinethemba shelter
   shelter for abused women and children
9. Eluxolweni shelter
   Shelter for street children
10. Bonginkosi blanket project
    Income generation
11. The Alexandria Haven
    Orphanage
12. Preschool places, Grahamstown
    
    

Archive of previously funded projects dating back to 2007

1. Gauteng Peace and Development Foundation
   Empowerment, training and income generation
2. Ingelozi Eyetu
   Craftwork project

1. African Leadership Development Institute (ALDI)
   
   (Education, Training, Empowerment, Income generation)
   
   Perspective - The African context
   
   Africa faces giant and complex problems like mass poverty and unemployment. The AIDS pandemic adds to these and retards economic growth. In 2007 there were an estimated 33.2 million people with HIV/AIDS worldwide. Over three-quarters of the resultant deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. In the last 25 years Africa is the only continent where conditions have got worse and its people have become poorer. It is the only continent where 90% of its products have the price determined by the buyer. Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, said: "Like Europe after a series of devastating wars, the aim should be to build a continent characterised by peace, cooperation, economic progress and rule of law. To bring this about Africa needs inspired leadership and courage." On top of this South Africa has to reverse the legacy of the Apartheid educational system.
   
   African Leadership Development Institute (ALDI)
   
   Various leadership training programmes developed and run by African Enterprise (AE) sit under the ALDI umbrella. AE seeks to serve South Africa through the church, business community, politicians, and educational institutions at all levels. ALDI aims to build up godly leadership. Thembisa currently supports:
   
   
   • The ASCENT Leadership Training Course
     
     The Vision is to see an exponential growth in African leaders demonstrating integrity and ability. ASCENT, an accredited course, achieves this through a two-week-in-residence, four-month-in-the-workplace course. The aim is mentoring—to develop mentors who will develop others.
     
     
     
   • Diploma in Social Empowerment and Development (DSE)
     
     The objective is to train development facilitators for the vast numbers of impoverished communities in South Africa. They are given a broad base of skills and trained to mobilise people in their communities. Hundreds of community workers participate. They are trained how to set up their own businesses in areas like market gardening, furniture making, sewing projects, running a crèche, and to assume ownership of their own community problems, deal with them effectively and thus to restore dignity. The aim is for groups to initiate, take part in, and ultimately control their own development.
     
     Also, see below the Thembisa Project, the Bonginkosi Blanket Project, one of AE’s support programmes for children at risk.
     www.africanenterprise.org.za