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The Community Chest of The Western Cape was founded in 1928. That year 7914 pounds was raised and distributed to 15 member organisations. By 1938 the Community Chest was an accepted part of the Cape Town community and an unqualified success and has therefore, been in existence for the past 80 years. Today the Community Chest supports more than 520 social welfare and development organisations with an annual spend of close to R 20 million.

The Princess Project was started by the late Helga Leurs and Erica Pienaar in 1996. Helga was quoted saying “I’m still not sure what contributed to the fact that an extraordinary idea entered my mind without routing to my brain and just inspired me to spread the word. So what’s this all about: Checking my e-mails a few weeks later, I realized that I received over 300 responses from the initial e-mail. What an overwhelming

As dynamic and complicated the issue of sexual and reproductive health is, the HIV/AIDS era has brought many challenges for sexual and reproductive health interventions. These challenges include the lack of access to targeted and reliable information on what works and what does not, limited access to evidence based approaches and tools, duplication of efforts, costly implementation of ineffective programmes and few opportunities to scale up successful approaches and strategies. Secondly it has become blatantly

Introduction The Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS) have been combating dangerous and often deadly runaway fires since being baptised through the devastating fires in 1999 and 2000 in Cape Town. With approximately 180 members at three stations (Newlands, Jonkershoek and the newly developing South Peninsula Station), the VWS is now a highly organised Section 21 Company that is gaining in reputation every year passing. The VWS has assisted the Table Mountain National Park and CapeNature as

Facts We care for about 800 patients on any one day More than a quarter of our patients are between the ages of 20 and 35 40% of our patients have AIDS 60% of our patients have cancer We have 12 community hospices spread throughout Cape Town We have almost 200 staff We have more than 650 volunteers Most of our patients are cared for in their own homes We have 2 wards, one in