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Projects

 Our projects offer experiences in the following areas:

  • Children’s  Sport and Education
  • Agriculture, Horticulture and Life Skills
  • Conservation and Tourism
  • IT/Marketing
Children’s Sport and Education
This programme is run in collaboration with the Football Foundation of South Africa (www.football-foundation.com). It entails a community development project that uses the power of sport to address important social issues, promote integration, improve physical and mental health, and create environmental awareness.  Football, netball, hockey and athletics coaching form part of the programme, along with education programmes in computers, HIV/AIDS and the environment. The Foundation also assists at the local crèche, and coaches in surrounding communities Stanford and Hermanus.
 
The project was developed due to various social challenges and the lack of sporting facilities and educational programmes for children in the area.
 

 

Activities and duties: Children’s coaching, education and Life Skills

Coaching football, netball, hockey or athletics

Delivering educational & awareness sessions

Evaluating and monitoring activities and projects using performance indicators

Training, supporting and developing coaches and volunteer staff

Assisting with environmental education

Organizing tournaments & coaching clinics

Working in partnership with schools to encourage participation in sport and organise parental involvement

Maintaining records, taking photographs and producing written reports

Working in partnership with appropriate organisations to deliver a programme of activities

Identifying potential opportunities for external funding

Offering coaching and supervision when appropriate

Coordinating, delivering and promoting relevant activities, classes and events

Assisting at the crèche

Supporting local coaches & facilitators

 

Green Futures
Green Futures Horticulture and Life Skills College is a one year, accredited training programme in Horticulture and gardening for unskilled people from local communities. The course entails a theoretical, practical and life skills component, and aims to give students the necessary skills to find employment upon completion of the course. The course is provided at no cost to the students and has a self-sustainable business model through landscaping services and a nursery.
 
The course was developed as a possible solution to the very high unemployment rate in South Africa, as well as a severe shortage of people with the practical and theoretical experience to develop indigenous private or public gardens.
 
Growing the Future
Growing the Future is a one year, accredited training programme in food production and sustainable harvesting for unskilled women from the local communities. The course entails a theoretical, practical and life skills component and aims to give women the skills to develop and maintain vegetable gardens. The women are trained in the growing of vegetables and fruit, beekeeping and the principles of successful animal husbandry. Similar to Green Futures, the course is free of charge and is self-sustainable through the selling of the food products.
The aim of the course is to empower women to be able to provide for their families, find employment or start their own business.
 

 

Activities and duties: Horticulture, Agriculture and Life Skills

Training, supporting and developing students

Delivering computer lessons, bookkeeping and basic personal finance lessons

Assisting with exhibitions

Supporting the Permaculture team

Making compost

Teaching English and literacy

Pruning & maintaining gardens

Assisting with hard landscaping

Landscaping

Assisting with nursery work

Cataloguing, mounting and filing of Herbarium specimens

Identifying potential opportunities for external funding

Assisting with plant deliveries

Sustainable flower harvesting

Taking care of and feeding farm animals

Working with the students to plant, harvest and weed

 

Further duties in all projects and within the Foundation can include:
Conservation and Tourism

 

Activities and duties

Alien vegetation control

Laying out of trails & trail maintenance

Plant surveys

Propagation of plants

Tree planting

Management plan execution

GIS/mapping

Forest restoration

Promoting eco-tourism and responsible tourism

 

 

IT/Marketing

 

Activities and duties

Writing blogs and documenting events and activities at the Foundation

Assisting in the social networking for the Foundation

Assisting in compilation of newsletters and news flash sending

Building relationships online with potential brand ambassadors

Teaching basic computer lessons and Microsoft Office

Designing Foundation adverts, posters and brochures

Taking pictures and videos of projects