Welcome to Handz-on Learning – providing you access to books and resources on deafness and related fields.
You have come to the right place if you are a parent of a Deaf or Hard OF Hearing child, a teacher of the Deaf, or a professional working in the field of deafness (Sign Language Interpreter, Speech Therapist, Audiologist or Psychologist etc).
Search our categories and products, as we are sure that everyone will find something to meet their specific need.
Handz-on Learning was founded by Claudine Storbeck, who has been working within the field of Deafness since 1992.
In her years as Teacher of the Deaf, community interpreter, researcher, parent advisor and consultant she has battled to access the materials she has needed to fulfill her various roles. To overcome this challenge Claudine founded HOL in 2005 in order to provide access to resources and books on Deafness to the greater Deaf and Hard of Hearing community and their families within South and Southern Africa.
www.handzonlearning.co.za
 

Breadline Africa is an internationally registered South African-based charity that aims to break the cycle of poverty – by helping communities to help themselves. At Breadline Africa we believe that children and young people hold the future in their hands.
We have our highly successful Container Programme, converting old shipping containers into vital community structures. The portable, versatile and secure recycled containers are a lifeline to many struggling communities, where they provide instant and vital infrastructure. Since 1993, we have recycled, refurbished and placed more than 175 of these containers in poor communities throughout Southern Africa.
Breadline Africa started when a group of community and social workers living in Africa wanted to bridge the gap between Africa and Europe and raise funds for the poor.
Their experiences in Africa meant that they were able to put the concerns of the communities around them into context and understand the problems that the people of Africa faced on a day-to-day basis. From there they could better identify community projects that could easily succeed with just a little help.
The community and social workers proposed the idea of an alliance to their European friends – one that would prove to benefit their common cause.
Within the year, a board of trustees was established and Breadline Africa was launched in 1993 with a fresh enthusiasm that continues to this day. The special relationship that we have established with Europe has proved to be one of success and substance. We look forward to only improving this relationship in the years to come.
As part of our commitment, Breadline Africa strives to break the cycle of poverty in the lives of individuals and communities in Africa through sustainable, long-term solutions.
We do this through:
Our Container Programme
Special campaigns including food parcels and our annual seaside outing
Our Mandela Container Libraries Project
We carefully select projects staffed and run by local communities, with a reasonable chance of long-term sustainability, that would struggle to find other funding.
http://breadlineafrica.org/

Leliebloem House was founded in 1868 by the Anglican Church in Cape Town. The services changed over the years as per the need in communities. Today it is a registered NGO that operates as a residential child and youth care centre for 84 children from troubled families and backgrounds. The centre offers the least restrictive environment for children who are placed via the children’s courts.
Even though residential care is the core business of Leliebloem, we work intensively within these children’s communities and families to improve the circumstances from which they were removed. Leliebloem has numerous programs that are well implemented and are looked to as “best practice models”. We strive to share our experiences from the piloting and running of these programs with colleagues in the child and youth care field. This is done by not only being available to them for knowledge sharing through site visits and telephonic support, but also by offering training and information sessions.
MISSION: To “improve the quality of life” of formerly deprived children and to provide appropriate services for both children and their families. More importantly is the need to provide them with developmental opportunities best suited to their needs.
VISION: To ensure that every child and family has access to developmentally appropriate and wholesome care, and to ensure that wherever possible children are reunited with family and community in the shortest possible time.
OUR PHILOSOPHY: Leliebloem House upholds a Christian ethos, because the organisation was founded under the auspices of the Anglican Church. However, we do not discriminate against any person’s culture, religion or creed. We accommodate and work with staff & children from all communities, cultures and religions.
We appeal to you for your support. Join us in our efforts to provide the very best second chance for our children, who are being provided with the opportunity of reworking and re-negotiating their developmental stage of their lives.
www.leliebloem.org.za

Barefoot Teacher is a communications development company that assists non-governmental organisations, government departments, public entities, small businesses and individuals to clearly and effectively communicate with their markets, clients and stakeholders.
Barefoot Teacher was founded by Nazeem and Kariema Lowe in 2006. They see Barefoot Teacher as the logical outcome of a lifetime of social activism. As its name implies, Barefoot Teacher is a simple concept: “We help people succeed, sometimes on a grand scale, but more often one organisation, one project, one person, one word at a time”.
Services Barefoot Teacher provides a range of cost-effective publishing, research and fundraising services to government entities, public entities, non-governmental organisations, small businesses and individuals.
Publishing services
– copywriting (media copy, learning materials, websites)
– editing (language & style, rewriting)
– proofreading (print & electronic publications)
– project management
 
Research & consultation
– feasibility studies, project development
– monitoring & evaluation
– academic writing coaching (postgraduate only)
 
Fundraising services
– strategy development and capacity-building
– training courses
– prospect research and funding assessments
– copywriting (proposals, funding letters, concept papers)
– monitoring & evaluation, funding reports
– event management
http://barefootteacher.co.za/

Connect Network is a collaborative network of NPOs and Churches working together with women and children at risk, to see communities transformed in South Africa.
Currently we have more than 115 members, who provide services to more than 310,000 children and women.
Connect Network was founded in 2004 to provide a platform for collaborative action and network support for Christians serving women and children at risk. Connect Network facilitates the networking of NGOs, churches and individuals, to enhance and maximize the response to women and children at risk. NGOs support each other through structured networking, and by harnessing resources for maximum impact. People working with vulnerable children often find themselves isolated, under-resourced and under-trained.
Connect Network has identified a critical need for systematic training and to increase the capacity and quality of service delivery to children at risk. The Connect Network members strengthen and equip themselves, using the Quality Improvement System (QIS), which places children at the centre of attention for building sound structures and systems.
Vision Our vision to see families thriving and communities transformed.
Mission We are a network of Non-Profit Organisations and churches working together with women and children at risk.
Strategy Our strategy defines how we achieve the direction and scope of the network, through the configuration of our resources within a challenging environment, to meet the needs of people working with women and children at risk and to fulfil the collaborative goals of the network. We do this through networking, sharing resources, equipping collaborating and advocating.
Goals
1. To develop nurturing and protective environments for children.
2. To develop opportunities for improved education.
3. To develop resourceful and resilient women.
For more information, go to www.connectnetwork.org.za.