• 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

5. The Masikhulisane Trust
   (Poverty alleviation through job creation)
   
   Perspective
   
   Poverty and unemployment affect some 22 million South Africans. Unemployment is particularly rife in the Eastern Cape around Grahamstown.

   The Masikhulisane Trust
   Based in Grahamstown, is a group of volunteers active in creating jobs and alleviating poverty in the Grahamstown area.During the past year the South African Revenues Tax Exempt Unit, after a long wait, registered the Trust as a Public Benefit Organisation.This has tax benefits for South African donors and is an important step forward for Masikhulisane.

   Funds donated by Thembisa enabled Masikhulisane to raise matching grants from South African individuals and trusts. As Masikhulisane does not charge an admin fee, the consolidated funds were allocated in full to the recipients, three projects administered by Grahamstown
   nongovernmental organizations:

   • Bursaries for children from impoverished families to attend preschool (Centre for Social Development)
   
   
   • Purchase of materials for a literacy programme (Grahamstown and Area Distress Relief Association) for functionally illiterate Grade 8 learners
   
   
   • Short-term employment of two men to help prepare the site of a nursery for indigenous medicinal plants and trees (Umthathi Agriculture).

   Chris Mann, the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of Masikhulisane, sent his thanks to Thembisa and also sent us a greeting in Xhosa: ‘Ungadinwa nangomso!’ which means, ‘Don’t get tired tomorrow’.