People
The Trust intends assisting the people of Africa in general, and Southern Africa in particular. Careful consideration has gone into the selection of the beneficiaries listed below.
Key Beneficiary: Breadline Africa
Breadline Africa is a group of passionate and experienced people working to ‘break the cycle’ of poverty by supporting poverty alleviation projects in Southern Africa.
We support projects that intervene to bring new hope to situations of poverty & hopelessness.
We work for those who view their donations, not just as charitable give-away’s, but rather as life changing investments.
Breadline Africa has a track record of:
• Over R70 million in grants
• to over 150 projects
• in eight countries in southern Africa
• for over 10 years
• with experience in monitoring and reporting on small and large grants.
Breadline Africa supports many specialised community charity projects that are run at ground-level, trying to make a difference. These charity projects try to establish a level of self-sustainability within the community, thus weaning the community off of the need for welfare. The projects supported include skills development, agriculture, health care, education as well as other area specific projects designed to meet direct needs.
Other Beneficiaries:
1.House of Judah community
The House of Judah community near Knysna was established in 1993 and over the last 15 years they have worked hard to uplift the lives of those in and around their community. The area has already benefited from the crèche that they run to serve the community, as well the Khayalethu nature trail that has been proclaimed a conservation area by government as a direct result of the House of Judah's input and vision. They are involved in skills provision through the Sinethemba community centre and they have begun their own health garden to help address the issue of malnourishment that prevails in the area as a whole. They are also in the process of building a B+B to accommodate tourists, who they are planning on integrating into the community's development initiatives.
2. Ngwavuma Mpontshini School & HIV/AIDS Orphan Care
Hlengiwe Mthembu lives in the town of Ngwavuma situated in Northern Zululand between Josini damn and Swaziland. She is an inspiration to many and a foster mother to a growing number of HIV AIDS orphans. She has established a small garden catering for the needs of her 400 pupils, and the approximately 20 adopted orphans. The school has built accommodation for these 20 orphans in this AIDS stricken area, and Hlengiwe has been able to build a laundry, library, kitchen and dining area. The garden, which she constantly seeks to expand, gives much needed nutrition for the children, and for many of them the only meal they receive is from this school. The area desperately needs support as the HIV infection rate is close on 70%, which leaves many households to be run by children, many of whom have to walk up to seven kilometres to get educated and fed at the Mpontshini school.
Places
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The Trust wishes to protect and revive the magnificent open spaces of Africa.
Key Beneficiary: The African Wildlife Foundation
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is an African-led, African-based conservation organization focused solely on the African continent. To ensure the vast and varied landscapes of Africa provide a home and livelihoods for Africa's people, while maintaining sustainable forests, fisheries, rangelands and populations of wildlife, AWF implements a multi-faceted approach to conservation, which includes:
- Development of trans-boundary conservation areas
- Capacity-building for and management of protected areas.
- Conservation of wetlands and waterways.
- Forest conservation
- Financing of community-owned conservation tourism ventures
Empowering Africans
Who better to protect their land and resources than Africans themselves? Living on the land we strive to protect, Africans are in touch with both its potential and its challenges. They have witnessed the draw of tourists to their land. And, they have come face-to-face with the sometimes destructive consequences of sharing land with Africa’s wildlife.
Empowering Africans to be Africa’s stewards is at the core of our strategy. And, we begin right here at AWF. Approximately 80 percent of our staff are African.
Other Beneficiaries:
1. Gwexintaba Community
This community in the heart of the Wildcoast lies in an area of un-spoilt natural beauty. However, as the ever growing population in the area places increased pressure on the natural resources, action needs to be taken by the community to improve their agricultural practises to reduce erosion, inhibit damage to the soil and improve productivity. The community is also tapping into its tourism potential by starting a local campsite and is hoping that this and improved skill levels, such as skills being taught at the leather making workshop run by Louie Fourie, will increase income levels and improve the standard of living.
2. Sodwana Recycling Project
Sodwana is famous for its diving and great fishing, but visitors bring their waste! The Sodwana Recycling Project seeks to address the problem of irresponsible waste management by establishing a depot with easy access for local communities. The project is bringing together members of the uMkhayekude community, government and other local roleplayers, such as members of the hospitality sector, to assist in the removal of the estimated 300 tons of recycleable waste in the greater iSimangaliso wetland park area which includes the lake St Lucia world heritage site. An estimated 20 tons of glass and 5 tons of tins will be removed monthly from Sodwana, which to date has been buried or burned! With the Nomad African trusts help Sodwana will be able to keep it's reputation for unspoilt beauty.
Animals
Where would Africa be, now and in the future, without its magnificent and unique wildlife. The Trust intends ensuring that this wildlife is around for future generations.
Key Beneficiary: The Jane Goodall Institute-Chimp Eden
The Jane Goodall Institute of South Africa is a non-profit organisation set up by world-renowned scientist and humanitarian Dr Jane Goodall in 1996.
The vision of JGI–SA is to develop and implement effective environmental, scientific and humanitarian awareness programmes by means of:
- A chimpanzee sanctuary and education centre.
- Environmental and humanitarian education projects (Roots & Shoots).
- Sound governance, leadership and organisation.
- Creating awareness through effective branding and marketing.
- Raising adequate funds to be self-sufficient.
JGI SA’s mission is to care for and protect Chimpanzees as a continuation of Jane Goodall’s work. Chimps are very much like human beings, they differ from us by only one percent of DNA and are more closely related to humans then they are to gorillas, but at present rates they will be extinct in the wild in ten years . Part of JGI SA’s work in saving Chimpanzees is to create awareness of the illegal logging.
The Jane Goodall Sanctuary in South Africa (Chimpanzee Eden) was started in March 2006 and is situated on a 1000 hectare game reserve 15 kilometres out of Nelspruit in Mpumalanga. It is the first and only chimpanzee sanctuary in South Africa. The main mission of the sanctuary is to rescue and take care of chimpanzees in need of refuge; providing the chimpanzees with a home to live out their lives with the necessary attention to recover from the trauma they have experienced.
Other Beneficiaries:
1.The Machabeng conservation and development project.
The Machabeng Project takes its name from the plateau upon which it is situated in the Soutpansberg mountains. The project aims to create a sustainable reserve in an area in which the land is presently being used for cattle and where there is a very high level of poaching, so predator numbers (Leopard, Brown Hyena, and Caracal) are decreasing rapidly. The area is home to unique flora, fauna and rock art which we aim to help preserve by educating the locals, establishing a fenced camp and re-introducing game so that the community can begin to gather the benefits of an area rich in bio-diversity through tourism. The project also aims to assist in the identification of new species as the area is one of the last incompletely catalogued bio-diversity zones in Southern Africa.
2. The Green Revolution- Aerial Surveys
The Eden aerial survey project is being developed to facilitate game counts in inaccessible areas by combining computer analysis and thermal cameras to determine species identification. The completed project will make use of aircraft that can spend large amounts of time in the air at very low cost, such as Motorized gliders which have been used by several research projects located in America, Australia and here in South Africa. The gliders will have forward mounted infra-red cameras that will assist in conservation by improving information relating to species numbers and migration habits.