3 Micro-bakeries for rural women in South Africa

We would like to express our gratitude for your contributions towards Brendon and his wife Anthea, who founded an organisation called The Community Program in Nababeep, Northern Cape. 

The Community Program organisation is committed to transforming their community through five programmes, GBV programme, Life Skills programme, Climate change programme, Sky12 programme, and the recently added Youth programme. 

The latest donation received was utilised to fundraise for their Youth programme, the fundraising event took place in Steinkopf at one of the youth’s houses as it was perfectly located to ensure maximum foot traffic to gain sales. The fundraiser was organized to raise funds for the upcoming annual exchange program with a German Youth Group. The exchange is already confirmed and The Community Program will be hosting the youth from Germany in October 2026. The money raised is to go towards activity costs during the hosting of the exchange. 

The youth from The Community Program were actively involved and on the day they sold traditional roosterbrood (a South African toasted roll with fillings which is cooked on a braai - or barbeque) with sausage and relish, accompanied by a cooldrink. The donation received through the GlobalGiving platform enabled the organisation to purchase all the ingredients needed to be able to successfully run the fundraiser. 

The event has given the youth a good start financially towards the exchange programme activities. The youth will be organising more events in the coming months and are very excited about the cultural exchange happening in later this year giving them invaluable exposure to different experiences and cultures that they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Thank you for your support and contribution towards sustaining vital organisations like The Community Program in communities that depend on their services to thrive.

We would like to express our gratitude for your contributions towards Elize, a community worker for Bergsig Ondeursteunings Groep (BOG) in Bersig, Sprinkbok, Northern Cape. The organisation offers a basket of services to their community including HIV/AIDS support, life skills, awareness raising, psychosocial support and more.

Elize and her organisation previously received a Mama Mimi oven through funding RDSP received, and have since been receiving vouchers thanks to the generous donations received through GlobalGiving.

The organisation as they are fortunate enough to have an annual contract with the Goegap Nature Reserve but they did not have the funds to fulfil their commitments there, therefore the voucher received from RDSP was perfectly timed to assist them in launching their contract. Every year the organisation is invited to run the kiosk and curio shop at the nature reserve in their peak time. At the kiosk they sell food which serves as an income generation activity for the organisation and within each season they can serve between 500 and 1000 individuals. People visit the nature reserve to see the flowers as well as to hike and attend sports events. This year they used the voucher to buy ingredients to make sausage rolls and sold 200, generating enough income to fund the remainder of the contract’s cooking. This contract gives the organisation not only income from the food sales but also great exposure and marketing.

For example, following the contract this year they were asked to cater for another group of ecotourists in October. They were able to use the Mama Mimi oven to provide pizzas for the groups which were very well received.

Elize explained that without the voucher which enabled them to buy the ingredients they needed to make the sausage rolls in the beginning of the contract they would not have been able to provide the food and they would not have made the contacts for the further catering opportunity either. Elize indicated that she was extremely grateful for the voucher and the timing.

Thank you for your support which enables these much needed services to continue in our communities.