Women’s Month 2019

This month 63 years ago, on August 9, 1956,  over 20,000 women of all races and ages from every corner of South Africa marched together towards the Union Buildings in Pretoria. These brave women marched in protest against the proposed passport systems that would enact further restrictions on women’s freedom of movement. With strict regulations already in place across South…

2019 April Networking Event

On the 06 of April 2019 , CHOSA held their first of four Annual Networking events. This event took place at one of CHOSA’s partner projects, QQ Community Creche. The focus of this event was on Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) which is a concept that seeks to highlight and motivate the power of communities…

Community Driven Solutions for Change

2018 has gotten off to a soaring start for Children of South Africa. With the beginning of a new school year here in South Africa, we have new children enrolled at our partner preschools, an additional school we are supporting by way of the Thope Foundation, and a children’s home making progress on purchasing a…

We are hiring!

Call for Applications: Project Coordinator/Office Administrator CHOSA (Children of South Africa) is calling for applications for the position of Project Coordinator/Office Administrator. She/he will split time between the office and various townships in Cape Town to further CHOSA’s mission, which is to identify and support communities and community-based organisations (CBOs) that reach out and take care…

Memoirs of a CHOSA Volunteer

This week we have a guest blogger: Nikki Carenza! She is one of our recent volunteers who was with us in Cape Town for two months. Read below to get a feel for what it is like to be a CHOSA volunteer, and don’t hesitate to reach out to us at info@chosa.org if you are…

Women’s Month (Ft. Nomsa from Blessings Educare)

CHOSA’s last featured woman to wrap up women’s month is Nomsa. She is the founder and principal of Blessings Educare, a creche (preschool) located in Delft. Her passion and drive for creating a safe space for children to learn and grow is what drove her to start Blessings. Nomsa says that the name for her…

Women’s Month (Ft. Evelyn and Noluyolo from Abaphumeleli Home of Safety)

Our featured women of CHOSA for women’s month are Evelyn and Noluyolo from Abaphumeleli Home of Safety (Abaph). Evelyn is the founder of the home, which was established in 2003, and Noluyolo is the daughter-in-law who manages the Abaph throughout the week. Abaphumeleli is home to +/- 30 children at any given time throughout the…

Women’s Month (Ft. Ritsie from Thope Foundation)

As August marks Women’s Month here in South Africa, CHOSA wants to highlight the many amazing women that are a part of the work that we support in local Cape Town communities. This post will act as the first of many to share a little more about the strong women founders/directors/principals of some of our…

Motivating Change

Whenever visitors or volunteers arrive at CHOSA, the staff comes together to share our organisations mission and vision with these individuals, giving them an idea of what kind of work we do and why. From this initial meeting we then take them around to our various partner organisations to show them where the real work…

Where Success Starts

These past two weeks, I have had the great pleasure of meeting a few “graduates” of a children’s home that CHOSA used to support. Identified as success stories from the organisation, I scheduled appointments to speak with them and learn about their past, how they came to live at the children’s home, what their aspirations…