• 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

3. Sakhumzi
   
   Perspective
   
   HIV/AIDS poses the single greatest threat to Africa's efforts to achieve its full potential. South Africa is amongst the countries hardest hit. The number of Aids orphans spirals.
   
   AIDS kills those on whom society relies to grow the crops, work in the mines and factories, run the schools and hospitals and govern countries... It creates new pockets of poverty when parents and breadwinners die and children leave school earlier to support the remaining children.
   
   Nelson Mandela
   
   Sakhumzi
   
   Sakhumzi was started by an energetic and impressive lady named Amelia, who - without any formal funding support - took into her own home orphans who had nowhere else to go. The premises have expanded and she now also looks after children who would otherwise have no care during the day.
   
   Mike Low, (former chairman) visited Sakhumzi at the end of 2001. At that time 150 children were being cared for at her home, 75 were day-care children.
   
   Amelia puts all her energy and love into her project. She wishes to give as many children as possible a life in dignity and a hope for the future. Every day new children join, yet she is incapable of rejecting any one of them. "What shall I do? If I do not give them a home, these children will be lost for all times." Amelia is constantly dreaming up ways in which these children can be better cared for. Funds are needed to fulfil these hopes and plans, and for the day-to-day running of the home. Thembisa can continue to make a significant contribution.
   
   A German group has set up a website. At the time of writing it is not up to date but provides more information. www.amelia.de/english/index.html