CHOSA alumnus named new Fundraising Coordinator

Hello CHOSA family! I am excited to be joining the CHOSA staff as the new Fundraising Coordinator. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, I studied Sociology & Social Justice at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Upon graduating in 2010, I spent a year volunteering with Hands at Work, an NGO supporting community-based efforts to serve orphans and [...]

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CHOSA book launch and fundraiser at Diesel Bookstore in Los Angeles

CHOSA will be hosting a second book launch and fundraiser on July 6th, 2011 at 7pm at Diesel Bookstore in Santa Monica. The book is called “No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way” and it is written and edited by the Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers featuring a forward by best-selling author and [...]

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CHOSA fundraiser and book launch in Santa Barbara

CHOSA is hosting a book launch and fundraiser on June 20th, 2011 at Tecolote Bookstore in Montecito. The book is called “No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way“.  It is written and edited by the Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers and features a forward by best-selling author and activist Raj Patel.  This unique [...]

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Part-time Fundraising Coordinator: Children of South Africa (CHOSA)

Children of South Africa (CHOSA) is a US-registered non-profit organization formed in 2004 to support grassroots community-driven children s projects in South Africa, primarily in Cape Town s impoverished townships. CHOSA strongly supports self-organization within communities and therefore provides unrestricted funding to the projects it supports. This approach is made possible through our grassroots funding [...]

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CHOSA-Supported Day-Care Center Destroyed by Fire: 500 People Left Homeless!

A terrible tragedy struck the community of QQ Section, Khayelitsha on the night of 7th December, 2010. A fire swept through the settlement in a matter of minutes, wiping out some 100 shacks and completely destroying the QQ Community Creche (Day Care Center) that CHOSA had assisted the community to build and operate. According to [...]

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From the Desk of the Regional Director

Dear CHOSA Friends and Supporters,  As we open the New Year of 2011  – I’d like to look back on our work in 2010 – a historic year for both CHOSA and South Africa – and look ahead to CHOSA in the coming year and beyond. Before I begin, I want to welcome our new [...]

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JOIN US FOR UPCOMING CHOSA EVENTS – DC AND SAN FRANCISCO!

CHEERS FOR CHOSA – SAN FRANCISCO, JANUARY 6, 2011 There are events for all seasons, and events for all reasons, and what better reason could there be to meet up with friends and CHOSA family members for drinks in San Francisco than to round off the holiday season with a drink to the children? CHOSA Alumni [...]

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One More Day to Support the Children in 2010!

Dear CHOSA Supporters & Family Members! Warm Festive Greetings! It’s that time of year again when we are all celebrating important family holidays and working hard to finish whatever the current year still requires of us, while preparing our hopes, dreams and plans for the coming New Year. A few months ago we wrote to [...]

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On Connecting and Re-Connecting with Our Hopes for South Africa

Dear CHOSA Volunteers and Graduate Volunteers; We have not yet met, but I already know that we have something very important in common: we all went to South Africa at some point intending to spend a limited time learning as much as we could about a country in the throes of an exciting political and [...]

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Molweni iitshomi! (hi friends!) –> CHOSA Fundraiser

Accessed from a CHOSA Volunteer’s Blog: LX in Africa Molweni iitshomi! (hi friends!) I miss you all, but am absolutely loving my semester in Cape Town. A very special part of my experience is my volunteer work with an organization called Children of South Africa (CHOSA), which was started by American semester abroad students. I [...]

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