By Salma Seedat | SASIX Administration Manager
The GreaterGood group continues to develop the sector for social change by facilitating the full spectrum of giving and social investment in South Africa and beyond.
In 2010, 17 projects were listed on the South African Social Investment Exchange (SASIX) and 8 were fully funded to an amount of R2,738,833.00.
One of these organisations is the Izzi Trust, whose project, “providing a container library to the Ncemaneni Combined School in Kwa Zulu Natal” commenced activities in March 2010. Since then, the school has selected good quality reading resources in the form of 1,200 new books in English and Zulu. Thanks to this project, 388 children will be accessing a wide variety of specially selected fiction, poetry and grammar books as well as comics and an Encyclopaedia.
Ms. Mhlongo, the school librarian explains: ‘We started selecting books from the first day. Most of the books we selected are written in IsiZulu including collections of poetry, novels and short stories. We also chose some English novels; books on sport, religion, and computer literacy, we also bought a few Maths books.’
One of our listings on Global Living, Mamelani, has also become fully funded. The organisation, which works with communities in the impoverished slums around Cape Town, is already providing community-based health education workshops targeted at health-workers, home-based carers, chronic illness sufferers and their families, enabling them to take responsibility for their own health.
Watch out for our next report to find out comments and pictures from the workshops!
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