aRe Bapaleng Partners

aRe Bapaleng´s working model and successful implementation is founded on a strong partnership approach. We work in close collaboration with a network of organisations in order to strengthen the local ECD ecosystem in vulnerable communities. This approach enables us to reach our target communities and provide them with a holistic interactive learning experience

Akhona Teens Leadership Foundation was founded by Ruth Mthabine. At a time when government social programs are losing ground in combating growing problems in the area of poverty, crime, education, and violence there is as emerging recognition of the faith community’s potential to offer successful solutions. This foundation presents an opportunity to preserve Akhona’s legacy by providing support to under privileged teens who are navigating through life with unanswered questions. The Foundation is founded on Christian principles and exists to give hope to underserved teenagers through providing them with educational resources and workshops to prepare them for successful navigation of the adolescent years.

Founded in 2013 by a group of women entrepreneurs in East London, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, dedicated to finding new strategies for dealing with challenges rural communities face in South Africa. They strive to strengthen communities and offer unique opportunities to individuals through a variety of programmes with a focus on Early Childhood Development, food security and the youth. Visit their website here: https://rfcza.org/

Sikulasonke Development Agency (Sikulasonke) is a non-profit organisation with a mission to facilitate development programmes that break the inter-generational cycle of poverty. The organisation believes that education is a powerful weapon which can be used to eradicate the current issues of inequality and socio-economic challenges within the African society. Education and empowerment of communities are crucial to its work. Sikulasonke empowers communities to value education, to have better health and to live healthy lives, as well as to protect their livelihoods – these are realized through its three programme pillars i.e., Education, Health, and Livelihoods programmes.

Economic Urban Farming (EUF) is an Agriculture and Community Support Non-Profit working in Bela-Bela. The organisation was established in 2020 and is proud to announce a current participant count of 375 individuals. The project’s baseline is ensuring food security and stabilising the internal community economy. While growing vegetables is our main activity, our long-term objective is to create a stable food economy to the advantage of the community members. Successful implementation would make it possible to apply methods to similar areas in the Waterberg and eventually Limpopo and into South Africa.

A nonprofit organisation based in Modimolle, Limpopo, South Africa. It was established on the 3rd of November 2011 and registered as a legal entity on the 4th of July 2013. OHO advocates for the development of youth and their participation on redressing the wrongs of the past and addressing the persistent challenges to youth development on the African continent. Visit their website here: https://organisationhandson.org/about-us/

Tlou Tlou’s was established in 2014 by a group of unemployed youth in Makgofe outside Seshego. The organization’s main purpose is ensuring that health, gender balanced, prosperous and a productive society lives in a conducive environment where youth, people living with disability and women are empowered. Tlou Tlou aims to build social cohesion, fight poverty, the scourge of teenage pregnancy, crime and create employment for many unemployed graduates and youth in the community.

The Ngangezwe Foundation is a non-profit organization and an approved Public Benefit Organization (PBO) committed to cultivating and nurturing personal agency in young people through education, sports, art, and skills development programmes and initiatives. Ngangezwe Foundation runs youth development programmes that are aimed at capacitating young people with leadership and soft skills (#IamNgangezwe Leadership Programme), support out of school young by exposing them to various opportunities (#Ilizwe’Lam), as well as supporting ECD centers to become centers of excellence and provide quality ECD programmes (ALPHA Growth). Through their programmes, they hope to impact the education system and impact communities at large.