Project Highlights

  • Tab Image Yard by Yard Project An asset based community development program transforming communities one yard at a time
  • Tab Image Child-headed Households Holistic and sustainable support to orphaned and vulnerable children.
  • Tab Image African Soul enabling people to become economically active through skills development, bridging school and micro-business.
  • Tab Image iKhaya Lomusa orphanage providing residential care and a nurturing foundation for children in Alex.
  • Tab Image Banekekeleni hospice facility providing palliative care to those with AIDS and other terminal illnesses
  • Tab Image Home-Based Care provides comfort and basic health-care to the sick and dying in their own homes
  • Tab Image Granny Support Groups for bereaved grand-mothers left to raise their orphaned grandchildren on meagre state pensions.
  • Tab Image Teen Pregnancy encouragement, training and support for pregnant high-school girls.
  • Tab Image Rose-Act Saturday School providing supplementary tuition to learners from challenged schooling environments in Alex.
  • Tab Image Ukukhanya daycare training centre designed to equip the care-givers of pre-school children to adequately prepare children for school readiness.
  • Tab Image African Soul Bridging School - moving the currently unemployable into jobs through simple skill training.
  • Tab Image Rays of Hope Tertiary Education Fund providing loans and mentoring students enabling them to gain a tertiary education.
  • Tab Image Matla A Bana skills training for police officers. Reduction fo secondary abuse for victims of family violence and sexual offenses.
  • Tab Image Yard By Yard fostering security through community development
  • Tab Image African Soul providing the unemployed with skills training and a means to earn a living
  • Tab Image Life-Skills Support to high school staff and students in Alex

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Upcoming Events & Activities

Cycle Tour of Hope 2013
, 21 May 2013 | Clarens to Johannesburg
Pedal for a Purpose! Slip on your cleats, strap down your helmet and flex those muscles for a ride that will change a life. Rays of Hope needs YOU to pedal for change and bring hope to people who have none. Get ready to join a select few intrepid adventurers to grind and sweat your way from Clarens to Johannesburg and accept the challenge to transform Alex and Jozi. Cycle from Clarens to Joburg to raise support for these three projects Child-Headed Households: Assisting households of children raising children in Alexandra Township. Many of these children have been orphaned by AIDS and are identified as the most vulnerable in society. Our aim is to help the children to break out of the victim cycle by leading, teaching, mentoring, helping and assisting through a 10 step programme. Matla-A-Bana: One of Rays of Hope’s partner projects aiming to address the high incidence of child abuse/rape on a national level by implementing appropriate reporting, support, intervention and community-driven programmes. Africa Works Africa Works is a skills development and income generating project in Alex. We aim to develop people holistically to give them the right to look after themselves and their families.
Cycle Tour of Hope 2013
, 22 May 2013 | Clarens to Johannesburg
Pedal for a Purpose! Slip on your cleats, strap down your helmet and flex those muscles for a ride that will change a life. Rays of Hope needs YOU to pedal for change and bring hope to people who have none. Get ready to join a select few intrepid adventurers to grind and sweat your way from Clarens to Johannesburg and accept the challenge to transform Alex and Jozi. Cycle from Clarens to Joburg to raise support for these three projects Child-Headed Households: Assisting households of children raising children in Alexandra Township. Many of these children have been orphaned by AIDS and are identified as the most vulnerable in society. Our aim is to help the children to break out of the victim cycle by leading, teaching, mentoring, helping and assisting through a 10 step programme. Matla-A-Bana: One of Rays of Hope’s partner projects aiming to address the high incidence of child abuse/rape on a national level by implementing appropriate reporting, support, intervention and community-driven programmes. Africa Works Africa Works is a skills development and income generating project in Alex. We aim to develop people holistically to give them the right to look after themselves and their families.

Current Opportunities

  • Fundraising and Marketing/PR
    WHEN: In your own time | WHERE: Around JHB
    Doing fundraising, marketing and/or public relations for our various projects and needs.
  • Sales Representative
    WHEN: Weekly - 6 hours | WHERE: Locally
    Selling and promoting all Africa Works products.

Inspiring Stories

Newsletter April 2013
Vanessa Vermaak | Date: 25 April 2013
Newsletter - January 2013
Vanessa Vermaak | Date: 17 January 2013

The Cycle Tour of Hope was a huge success raising over R160 000. The Santa Shoebox project distributed over almost 900 gifts to seven of our projects...

Newsletter July 2012
Vanessa Vermaak | Date: 8 August 2012

Africa Works has recently celebrated its first anniversary and has so much to be proud of! It is a place where lives have been impacted.

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