Little Eden

Little Eden cares for children and adults with profound intellectual disability. Most are provided with 24 hour nursing care, medicines and therapy to keep them comfortable – as well as food, clothing and shelter. Through multiple caring, medical, therapeutic and supportive programmes the beneficiaries are able to reach their own unique potential, in a dignified, respectful, warm and loving environment that is their permanent home.

The AVI Community Trust continues to support the 5 Little Eden residents adopted and they participate and benefit from medical care and therapy.

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

Look Good Feel Better Foundation

The Look Good Feel Better programme offers free two-hour skincare and make-up workshops to groups of cancer patients. The programme is specially designed to assist women in active cancer treatment to address their appearance, improve mental health and related side effects of their treatment thus helping them to regain the self-confidence they need to face the world and fight the disease.

The programme supported by the AVI Community Trust reaches 480 patients in the Groote Schuur Hospital in Western Cape and Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Gauteng.

Find out more: https://lookgoodfeelbetter.org/

Unjani Clinics

Unjani Clinic is an Enterprise Development initiative aimed at empowering Black Woman Professional Nurses, creating Permanent Jobs; and perfecting a Sustainable Clinic Model for providing primary healthcare. The clinics serve the “bottom of the pyramid” and under-served markets; ensuring an affordable, quality primary healthcare service and the supply of quality medicines to the people of South Africa.

The clinics are based directly in the communities ensuring that the service is delivered at the point of need. The focus is on the employed uninsured population of South Africa, this constitutes a portion of the population is able to afford to pay something towards their healthcare needs, but are unable to afford private medical aid or private GP/healthcare practitioner rates.

The AVI Community Trust has fully funded the set-up of an Unjani Clinic in Gansbaai to provide the community and surrounding areas with an affordable alternative to quality healthcare. For the employed, uninsured population of Gansbaai and the surrounding areas, the only affordable health facility is the Gansbaai Clinic. The Gansbaai Clinic needs to service the healthcare needs of approximately 8 000 to 10 000 people, which can introduce and increase challenges faced in public health facilities that cater to a large population such as long queues, staff shortages and medicine shortages.

Find out more: https://www.unjaniclinic.co.za/

Red Cross Children’s Hospital

The Children’s Hospital Trust is an independent non-profit organisation established in 1994 to raise funds to support specific projects and programmes to help advance child healthcare through the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital

For the period the AVI Community Trust contributed towards the Emergency Centre upgrade and expansion at Red Cross Children’s Hospital. The Emergency Centre is the only dedicated children’s emergency unit in South Africa. Operating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, the primary function of this area is to provide high quality, evidence based medical, surgical, nursing and paramedical services to the thousands of children needing access to emergency and acute services. A child and user-friendly environment is critical to maintaining the high standard of care needed to minimise hospitalisation and facilitate the child’s early return to their family.

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

Heart-Work

Heart-Work’s mission is to reach prisoners who have never been exposed to personal therapy, or have never been afforded the opportunity to learn about their personal emotions in a controlled and secure environment.

The Sub-Objective of this organisation is to curb the re-admittance rate that most prisoners experience after they get released from prison. Therefore, the Heart-Work programme does not only focus on a healthier way to combat the current regressed emotions whilst the participant are incarcerated, but also with coping mechanisms and integration skills to equip them to re-join society and better chance to access economic opportunities.

The AVI Community Trust’s financial support has been towards the following centres where the programme is implemented:

  • Leeuwkop men
  • Boksburg men
  • Groenpunt men
  • Krugersdorp men
  • Zonderwater maximum centre – Men
  • Zonderwater medium centre – Men

Find out more: http://www.heartwork.org.za/

Whale Coast Conservation

The Whale Coast Conservation Trust (WCCT) was established in 2002 with the mission to unify, coordinate and promote environmentally sustainable living in the Cape Whale Coast region of the Western Cape.  The major focus of the organisation is community development through environmental education, to understand and appreciate the unique Whale Coast environment. The programme educates through schools Expos, nature excursions, citizen-science research and conservation projects, as well as community projects.

The AVI Community Trust has partnered with the WCCT to inspire environmental learning and an understanding of one-planet/sustainable lifestyles by sponsoring a series of Expos to Gansbaai schools. The purpose is to promote and make children aware of the critical ecological role that estuaries play in the Whale Coast area.

Find out more: http://whalecoastconservation.org.za/

St Mary’s Outreach Programme

St Mary’s Outreach Programme operates in the rural areas of Marianhill in KwaZulu-Natal and caters for destitute, unemployed, youth, women and children. St Mary’s Outreach Programme was started due to the HIV/Aids pandemic that was sweeping South Africa. The initial focus was only on training community care givers to provide home based care.  Assisting with medication, bathing, changing, wound dressing and feeding.  St Mary’s Outreach Programme has since progressed and presently offers home Drop-In Centre that caters for orphan and vulnerable children, school psycho-social counselling, integrated school health programme, community based organisation development, income generation projects and gardening projects

The AVI Community Trust continues to support St Mary’s Outreach Programme with its core service offerings to service the community of Marianhill.

Afrika Tikkun

Afrika Tikkun focuses on education, personal development, career development, nutrition, health, family support, skills development and ultimately work placement. Afrika Tikkun is dedicated to driving youth employment in South Africa through the Career Development Programme (CDP) is the concluding phase of the Cradle to Career Model.

The programme focuses on skilling and placing young people between the ages of 18 and 29. The goal is to ensure that young graduates from the skills programmes enjoy a better quality of life through accessing employment or self-employment. The programme provides general ICT training, career guidance, job readiness training, specialised training (Retail, Hospitality and IT (coding) and access to learnerships, job placement and bursaries for further learning).

The funding from the AVI Community Trust enables Afrika Tikkun to empower young people in Diepsloot with work readiness and specialised skills training. It has also enabled young people to be placed into jobs.

Find out more: https://afrikatikkun.org/

Two Oceans Education Foundation

The Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation places a strong emphasis on marine science literacy, for the benefit of future generations of South African children, and the ocean at large. Efforts of the Education Foundation include environmental education outreach programmes, free courses via the Marine Sciences Academy, and thousands of lessons for school learners.

To support the Two Oceans effort, the AVI Community Trust made a contribution towards the Junior Biologist, Marine Science and Oceanography.

Find out more: https://www.aquarium.co.za/content/page/education-foundation

Theo Jackson Scholarship Fund

The Theo Jackson Scholarship Fund provides scholarships at Jeppe High School for Boys.

It takes a great investment in time and effort to unearth the hidden beauty of a rough diamond, transforming it into a precious gem and through the AVI Community Trust funding, 4 boys are being funded at the school, the fund specifically targets disadvantaged boys who are either orphaned, or come from single parent which aims to uncover the talents of boys.

Find out more: http://www.theojacksonfund.org.za/