Sectors

Through their support of numerous, diverse projects, our clients seek to create and strengthen a community safety net for vulnerable people across South Africa, restore human dignity by addressing human rights violations, and offer support for the enhancement of self-reliance and optimal social functioning.

Community care and welfare is just the first step in a process that ideally moves from community care to community development and then to sustainable livelihoods.

The support for this sector offered by the Anglo American Chairman’s Fund targets homes, shelters and outreach programmes that provide quality care at the statutory and aftercare levels of service delivery.  Focus areas are women and girls, poverty alleviation and communities in labour-sending areas.

Please note that De Beers supports community care projects primarily in communities surrounding its operations, namely in the municipalities of Siyanda, Ga-Segonyana, Taung, Frances Baard, Letsemeng, Nama Khoi, Kamiesberg and Richtersveld (Northern Cape), and Musina and Blouberg (Limpopo).

The FNB Community Care Programme supports primarily prevention and early intervention in youth, child welfare and gender-based violence projects.  This focus aims to strengthen and build the self-reliance of the needy, then make use of developmental and therapeutic programmes to ensure that those at risk have access to assistance before they require statutory services.

The FirstRand Fund supports the Community Care sector through its Strategic Partners programme, which enables the Foundation to enter into meaningful funding relationships with a select number of partners on behalf of its group of member funds, in order to best effect the development and empowerment of South African communities on a national scale.

Supportive Funds