As a Cape Town based Destination Management Company, we are only too aware of the circumstances of many who live in poverty in our country.For girl children, growing up in a township presents many risks and challenges. Unfortunately, this can result in girls under-performing at school, further disadvantaging them in life.
We are proud members of Pack for a Purpose, an initiative that allows travelers like you to make a lasting impact in the community at your travel destination. If you save just a few kilos of space in your suitcase and take supplies for the projects we support in need, you’ll make a priceless impact in the lives of our local children and families.
Please click here to see what supplies are needed for our project/projects.
Call For Travellers To Donate Clothes
In 2019 Into Africa started an initiative where we encourage groups of travellers to bring donations of second-hand clothing when coming to South Africa.
These clothes are then sold in support of Dassenberg Rescue’s outreach project which assists vulnerable youths.
Sales Are Pitched To A Diverse Market
In the spirit of giving, the clothes are then sensitively priced, to reach and attract people from all walks of life.
The beauty of this system is that it also helps women from disadvantaged areas, giving them access to good quality clothing, boosting their confidence and self-esteem.
Reaching Vulnerable Youths
Members of our team volunteer at the Dassenberg Rescue and are integrally involved in setting up and running this programme which seeks to reach youths that have experienced stress and trauma.
The programme makes use of therapists, teachers and social workers who volunteer their time. They use play to teach important life skills and try to fill the gaps, where kids aren’t given the necessary help and support at home.
We believe that by reaching these youths at this critical stage of their lives, the programme helps them turn their lives around and start to perform better in school.
Rescue Animals Are The Heroes Of Our Story
We absolutely love the fact that there is a mutual benefit for their rescue animals, who themselves have been neglected.
The animals enjoy the human contact they receive from these youths and the necessary training they undertake to perform this important role makes them very adoptable.
By participating in this programme these rescue animals go from being victims themselves to being the real heroes of our story.
If you’d like to find out more about the programme and this organization that is ‘With Heart And Soul For Children And Animals, please visit their website on www.dassenbergrescue.org.
Our team is excited to support an initiative that works on so many levels. The cherry on top is the knowledge that donated clothing becomes a sort of ‘carbon off-set’
for travellers to South Africa.
If you would like to participate in this programme please feel free to contact me directly on frances@intoafrica.co.za.
INTO AFRICA’S INVOLVEMENT
CASE STUDIES
This aspect of travel has become as important to the Business Events side of our business as it is to our leisure travel division.
We take social responsibility seriously in the causes we support as a business and as individuals. We are delighted when this extends to the inclusion of our clients and we can facilitate their needs whether on an individual or a corporate level.
Hout Bay Music Project
An easy way of adding a CSI element to an event is to offer an NGO an entertainment contract. We did this very successfully with a UK Banking Incentive where we contracted the Hout Bay Music Project to play at our gala dinner. The kids were so well received that guests spontaneously started collecting money when they heard of the transport challenges the children had faced to get to the event. In total enough money was raised to buy the project a minibus, which is still in use today.
To find out more about this amazing organization please visit their website: http://www.houtbaymusic.org/
Borehole in Kenya
One of our incentive groups chose to raise money for the community they visited in the Masaai Mara. The $50 000, some of which they contributed themselves, was used to build a bore-hole. Access to clean water has had a massive impact on the community, especially the children who no longer have to walk for hours each day to collect water. Their health has also improved dramatically and the local school is now doing so well they are planning a boarding school to further support the children.
Planting trees, decorating classrooms, painting walls for Baphumelele
We were asked to identify a suitable CSR project in Cape Town by a leading international pharmaceutical company. The top executives of the company, accompanied by their partners, met in Cape Town early in 2012. They requested a project which would both be a worthy recipient of various donations including hands on labour and commitment from the executives and their partners.
Baphumelele is run by an incredible lady called Rosie. She has been helping street children in Khayelitsha for over 20 years. Bampumelele is a registered orphanage taking care of 106 orphans and approximately another 100 community children through their day care centre. Assistance was needed to uplift the environment in which these children spend their days. Various building, decorating and tree planting needs were identified. The preparation work was carried out by a local Khayetisha builder through the funding of the pharmaceutical company. The executives and their partners were able to plant trees, decorate classrooms, paint walls and build cupboards in what, for them, proved to be a most fulfilling day. Importantly they were also able to meet with Rosie and the children – hugely deserving recipients of this generous CSR project. Unfortunately there is no shortage of CSR projects to invest in, in Africa. CSR Projects have, however, proved time and again to be an incredible, moving experience for participants attending conferences and incentives programmes. Reaching out to communities in need is very rewarding.
It is important to identify the right projects for both the donor company and the communities -. projects which have longevity and improve the lives of all concerned. Identifying and facilitating such projects is an important aspect of who we are and what we do at Into Africa.
Baphumelele – CSR Project
We were asked to identify a suitable CSR project in Cape Town by a leading international pharmaceutical company. The top executives of the company, accompanied by their partners, met in Cape Town early in 2012. They requested a project which would both be a worthy recipient of various donations including hands on labour and commitment from the executives and their partners.
Baphumelele is run by an incredible lady called Rosie. She has been helping street children in Khayelitsha for over 20 years. Bampumelele is a registered orphanage taking care of 106 orphans and approximately another 100 community children through their day care centre. Assistance was needed to uplift the environment in which these children spend their days.
Various building, decorating and tree planting needs were identified. The preparation work was carried out by a local Khayetisha builder through the funding of the pharmaceutical company. The executives and their partners were able to plant trees, decorate classrooms, paint walls and build cupboards in what, for them, proved to be a most fulfilling day. Importantly they were also able to meet with Rosie and the children – hugely deserving recipients of this generous CSR project.
Unfortunately there is no shortage of CSR projects to invest in, in Africa. CSR Projects have, however, proved time and again to be an incredible, moving experience for participants attending conferences and incentives programmes. Reaching out to communities in need is very rewarding.
It is important to identify the right projects for both the donor company and the communities -. projects which have longevity and improve the lives of all concerned. Identifying and facilitating such projects is an important aspect of who we are and what we do at Into Africa.
GET INVOLVED
There are several ways individuals may choose to get involved while visiting Southern Africa. This could include a simple township tour by bike (which benefits the local community) to participating in a wildlife tagging project while on Safari. Here is a list of suggested activities.
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