St Mungo’s Diepsloot Community Action

St Mungo’s Diepsloot Community Action mandate is to uplift and empower the community through Education, Vocational Training, and Enterprise Development (SMMEs and Co-operatives), help the community to develop life skills and income, address hunger and extreme poverty and address the ravages of HIV/AIDS, drugs and alcohol, crime and violence.

The AVI Community Trust has partnered with St Mungo’s over the years on projects that allows disadvantaged youths over the age of 18 years who have not achieved their matric to achieve a matric equivalent education and skills. In addition this enables them to become employable or self-employed through the Adult Basic Education and Training, carpentry and sewing programs. A new project commenced in January 2017 with the opening of an Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD) – Khulani (meaning ‘grow’), which has two classes, Grade 00 (aged 4-5 years old) and Grade 000 (aged 3- 4 years old).

Find out more: https://www.nsri.org.za/

National Sea Rescue Institute

The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) is a charity staffed by volunteers who are on call, at all hours, every day of the year.  The goal of NSRI is to prevent drowning through education, through preventative measures and through rescue.

The support by the AVI Community Trust for the period has fund 19 000 children from disadvantaged communities to participate in the School Drowning Prevention program. The School Drowning Prevention Programme aims to educate children specifically in recognising and reacting appropriately to the threat posed by open bodies of water to avoid drowning and to assist in helping those in a potential life threatening situation. The course is a proactive approach to ensuring a child, adolescent and adult are at lower risk of drowning should they accidentally and unexpectedly find themselves in a dangerous situation in water.

Find out more: https://www.nsri.org.za/

Learn to Earn

The vision of Learn to Earn is to eradicate poverty and other legacies of injustice in South Africa and Africa.  Learn to Earn provides market-relevant skills training across  3 training venues in the Western Cape with their mission being to develop people, especially unemployed people economically, emotionally, socially and spiritually. Through programmes that give a ‘hand up not a hand out’ Learn to Earn restores hope, dignity and self-respect of unemployed people, empowering them to provide from themselves and their families.

The students receive core skills training with supplementary life skills, basic computer skills, office administration, sewing and hospitality & barista programmes.  In addition to up skilling their learners, they also facilitate access to further education and economic opportunities.

The funding provided by the AVI Community Trust for the period was allocated in full to sponsoring 39 unemployed individuals for a Bake for Profit course in Khayelitsha (17 students), Barista training in Claremont (12 students) and a Home Management course at the Hermanus campus (10 students).

Find out more: https://learntoearn.org.za/