• 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. WARMTH
   Feeding / entrepreneurship scheme
4. The Masikhulisane Trust
   Poverty alleviation, job creation
5. Bonginkosi Preschool
   Preschool for children from extremely deprived families
6. GADRA visually impaired project
   Helping visually impaired people
7. Eluxolweni shelter
   Shelter for street children
8. Bonginkosi blanket project
   Income generation
9. The Alexandria Haven
   Orphanage
10. Preschool places, Grahamstown
    
11. Khazimula children’s project, Howick
    Description coming soon
12. Chishiwasha Orphans’ Project, Zimbabwe
    Description coming soon
    

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
3. Sakhumzi
   Orphanage
4. Sinethemba shelter
   Shelter for abused women and children

10. Preschool places for needy children in the Grahamstown area
    
    Poverty and AIDS mean that the number of orphans and vulnerable children in South Africa is increasing. Early childhood stimulation plays a key role in developing people’s full potential, but the government cannot provide all the funding needed. Registered community preschools receive some subsidy but still have to charge fees to cover their costs. The fees are only about R100 (£8) per month, but are still of reach of many families - especially because the mother is often either terminally ill or has died, the father is absent and the grandmother or another relative is taking care of the child.
    The Centre for Social Development (CSD), attached to Rhodes University in Grahamstown, promotes early childhood development and community development in disadvantaged areas. The CSD has established preschools, which it supports by training Community Development practitioners and channelling donations. These preschools provide educational stimulation, socialisation benefits, and physical benefits, as the children receive two nutritious meals per day.
    The children who would benefit most from attending preschools are identified by staff of the Grahamstown Hospice, which works with children affected by HIV/AIDS and terminal illnesses in their families, and by the CSD’s own Community Development practitioners, who are based in particular communities and know the children and families well.
    The annual cost to fund each place at a preschool is about £125, including all the administration costs. This project was the focus of Thembisa’s fund-rasing in 2010. We raised £2500, which benefitted about 25 children at the prevailing costs. For 2011 we are again aiming to raise a minimum of £2500, in order to benefit a minimum of 20 children.