Project Highlights

  • Tab Image Yard by Yard Project An asset based community development program transforming communities one yard at a time
  • Tab Image Child-headed Households Holistic and sustainable support to orphaned and vulnerable children.
  • Tab Image African Soul enabling people to become economically active through skills development, bridging school and micro-business.
  • Tab Image iKhaya Lomusa orphanage providing residential care and a nurturing foundation for children in Alex.
  • Tab Image Banekekeleni hospice facility providing palliative care to those with AIDS and other terminal illnesses
  • Tab Image Home-Based Care provides comfort and basic health-care to the sick and dying in their own homes
  • Tab Image Granny Support Groups for bereaved grand-mothers left to raise their orphaned grandchildren on meagre state pensions.
  • Tab Image Teen Pregnancy encouragement, training and support for pregnant high-school girls.
  • Tab Image Rose-Act Saturday School providing supplementary tuition to learners from challenged schooling environments in Alex.
  • Tab Image Ukukhanya daycare training centre designed to equip the care-givers of pre-school children to adequately prepare children for school readiness.
  • Tab Image African Soul Bridging School - moving the currently unemployable into jobs through simple skill training.
  • Tab Image Rays of Hope Tertiary Education Fund providing loans and mentoring students enabling them to gain a tertiary education.
  • Tab Image Matla A Bana skills training for police officers. Reduction fo secondary abuse for victims of family violence and sexual offenses.
  • Tab Image Yard By Yard fostering security through community development
  • Tab Image African Soul providing the unemployed with skills training and a means to earn a living
  • Tab Image Life-Skills Support to high school staff and students in Alex

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Upcoming Events & Activities

Designer Crochet Class
10am – 11:30am, 21 May 2012 | African Soul
Skill Training: Designer Crochet class with Colleen Chapman
Saturday School
8am - 12pm, 26 May 2012 | Alex School
Tutoring for grades 5 - 12 learners from Alexandra Township.

Current Opportunities

  • Gardening
    WHEN: Ad Hoc | WHERE: Hotel Hope (Melville)
    Garden at children’s home – grass to be leveled and more grass to be planted
  • Tutoring
    WHEN: Weekly, any day | WHERE: Alexandra
    Help children one-on-one who are battling at school, subject and career guidance and mentoring

Inspiring Stories

Pastor Charles Mokoena - A man with a passion for Alex
By Catherine Murray | Date: 25 April 2012

Rays of Hope is extremely fortunate to have had Pastor Charles Mokoena join their team in January this year, providing pastoral support for all their projects....

David Learns to Read and Write
By Steph Dawson and Vanessa Vermaak | Date: 21 April 2012

David was a troubled 17 year old boy when I met him at Ikhaya Lomusa Children’s Home. Communicating with him was challenging since he could not speak English....

Psalm 82 - Reaching out to the those in the darkness
By Bertha Maringa and Kona Brown | Date: 9 February 2012

Early one morning our field worker – Bertha, was woken up by a sms from Zanele (name has been changed to protect privacy) and it read, “I need someone to talk to...

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