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Mossel Bay Care Centre
Run various outreach programs feeding, educating, and empowering the youth in impoverished areas.
Located in Mossel Bay, the Mossel Bay Care Centre is a non-profit foundation that provides meals for 160 underprivileged children on a daily basis. For most of these children, this meal they get at school is the only meal they have for the day.
They also buy school clothes and shoes for those who require them. They take them on outings throughout the year of which their Christmas parties are the highlight.
Food parcels are given to 12 households once a month. They prepare and distribute food parcels to underprivileged and sick pensioners whose only means of income is a small Government pension.
They run an aftercare centre in Powertown, a rural development in Mosselbay. Here they help Grades 1 to 12 (30+ kids) with their homework and give them a healthy home-cooked meal every day.
Be My Arms and Hands
Focus: “Creating a safe educational space where children can be children without worrying about where their next meal will come from.”
Located in Oudtshoorn, the Lighthouse is a non-profit foundation born out of a need to empower local communities and leave the next generation with a cleaner, brighter, and more sustainable future. The facility is a community center for children, supplying a safe space for playing, studying, and daily meals. Currently, the project provides meals for over 150 kids per day, but the need is far greater and they hope to expand that to be able to feed 1,000+ children daily within this safe and secure space.
The Surfer Kids (Non-Profit)
THE SURFER KIDS CORE SURF PROGRAMME has been offering free surf lessons to the marginalised youths in the Southern Cape of South Africa since November 2010. Our Core Surfing Programme is based at Diaz Beach in Mossel Bay. The primary focus of our CORE SURF PROGRAMME is introducing young children to surfing. Surfing isn't otherwise normally practised in Friemersheim, or any of the other surrounding marginalised communities. The children are introduced to surfing as a healthy way of having fun!
As the children grow within the programme they are encouraged to progress. To paddle to the back-line and surf bigger and better waves. This is no easy task, as anyone who's ever tried surfing will know. Learning to paddle and catch waves takes a lot of hard work. But the reward of riding waves is one of the best feelings a human being can experience! This allows for the unique medium of surfing to teach one of the most fundamental and empowering life skills of all: Life may be full of limitations, but, by working towards a goal, with commitment, one can accomplish incredible things.
Despite our limitations, whatever they may be, as long as we have great goals, if we're prepared to work for it, we can achieve what we've only ever dreamt of. And more, this is the message of hope and empowerment around which we structure our entire programme.
Join Bands Not Gangs (Non-Profit)
Founded in 2018 by Berklee College of Music graduate Karien de Waal, the organization aims to prove our hypothesis - that if a small percentage of the Youth in a neighborhood can become actively involved in constructive activities like music, we can help reduce gangsterism and therefore reduce crime.
We also believe we can help rehabilitate active street gangsters before they end up in the criminal justice system, using music lessons as a point of contact.
Kids for Kids
This is an initiative where businesses and organizations come together to raise support to feed as many children from vulnerable communities as possible.
Kids for Kids is an initiative shared by Chef Emile Nel, Be My Arms And Hands, and Eden Protocol Foundation.
Eden Protocol Foundation is the administrative organization tasked to secure and redistribute funding raised by the Kids for Kids charity events.
Bitcoin Ekasi
Bitcoin Ekasi (Mossel Bay, South Africa) is inspired by Bitcoin Beach (El Zonte, El Salvador).
Bitcoin Ekasi is an extension of The Surfer Kids Non-Profit. The NPO is 100% donation-based and works to create youth empowerment in an impoverished South African township.
Similar to what Bitcoin Beach did in El Zonte, El Salvador, Bitcoin Ekasi aims to use a well-established community platform (The Surfer Kids NPO) to create a Bitcoin economy in the township already serviced by that non-profit organization.
The Surfer Kids’ existing program operates 5 days a week, all year round, and is run by coaches from the same township community.
Bitcoin Ekasi pays these coaches’ salaries with Bitcoin, while simultaneously onboarding township vendors to accept Bitcoin as payment. This allows the coaches to spend their SATs buying groceries in the township, thereby introducing Bitcoin into the township economy.
All of this happens over the Lightning Network. Bitcoin’s layer-two scaling solution, designed to expand the transaction throughput of the Bitcoin network to a truly global scale.