MAWO - My Family My Community Fundraising

Itipini in Xhosa translates to “dump”, as in rubbish dump. This is a community of people, located in Mthatha, who live on a dump in their makeshift shacks. There has been a lot of work done with the community through the African Medical Mission. The community consists of approximately 3,500+ residents. Although the South Africa regional, municipal and National government bodies have tried to create a solution for the residents there has not been a successful solution to date. Most of the initiatives included moving the community further out of town and splitting the community up. What the residents would really like is to be able to re-build their community on the land they already occupy.

The land is owned by the Municipal Government of Mthatha and needs to be acquired. We want to support the needs and desires of the community to help them establish a community they can grow within that supports the residents, families and community to support themselves in a sustainable manner and in an environment that meets their needs now and in the future. The plan is to develop skills and begin infrastructure development in tandem and along with the community members to create sustainable skills development and employment within the community.

Design Considerations & Needs Requirements:

The community needs to include:
• Multi-Purpose Centre that includes:

• Health Care Centre
• Networking and Communications
• Child Care facilities
• ECD Centre
• Elderly Meeting Centre
• Micro-Business Training

• Ablution Facilities - community and individual
• Water access - community and individual
• Building of homes to replace shanties
• Community Enterprises

• ECD
• After School
• Community Kitchens & Bakery
• Micro and Community Gardens
• Home building
• Arts & Crafts

• Greening of the community with trees and plants
• Road Access and Community Streets
• Community Lighting
• Drainage
• Recycling & Composting facility
• Refuse Service
• Environmental Considerations

Skills

We want to teach skills to develop:
• Leadership skills

• Community
• Business
• Youth

• Coping Skills
• AIDS/HIV prevention and counseling
• Parenting and Family Skills
• ECD
• Micro-Business
• Community support
• Community participation and involvement
• Caring for the Elderly
• Drug addiction
• Community Violence support

Partners

• manzimvula™ Ventures, Inc.
• The Sustainability Institute
• Champions of the Environment Foundation
• Vital Edge Consulting
• Municipal Government
• Provincial Government
• National Government
• Techomes - Schalk van der Walt