Solidariteit
Helpende Hand
Solidariteit Helpende Hand is a non-profit organisation in South Africa focused on the sustainable development of communities. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have also been providing comprehensive support to families within their respective communities.
SOLIDARITEIT HELPENDE HAND
Solidariteit Helpende Hand is a non-profit organisation in South Africa focused on the sustainable development of communities. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have also been providing comprehensive support to families within their respective communities.
- Empowering Communities through Sustainable Development
Solidariteit Helpende Hand strives to foster the personal growth of individuals in their communities and the overall development of the community through community-based social development initiatives. We want to achieve this by means of sustainable development programmes and projects, training, the building of networks and the use of resources so that the person is guided by his or her community into a developed, independent, self-reliant and optimally functioning person. This will have healthy, functioning communities as a result. Our emphasis and operational strategies are rooted in thorough research.
Some of Solidarity Helping Hand’s main projects include:
StopHunger
Every night there are preschoolers in our community who go to bed hungry.
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Their parents simply cannot afford to provide food. The #StopHunger Project aims to ensure that all the children participating in Solidarity Helping Hand’s feeding programme get a plate of nutritious food. At the moment, more than 8 000 preschoolers participate in this feeding programme. The project focuses on supporting indigent nursery schools by making vouchers available to them to buy food. To ensure that these preschoolers are adequately fed, Helping Hand needs to provide 1,5 million meals a year.
Interest-free study loans
The Study Trust facilitates partially interest-free study loans for tertiary studies at any accredited South African institution.
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In the 1960’s the Mineworkers’ Union, the forerunner of the present-day Solidarity, decided to establish a sustainable study fund precisely because so many impoverished Afrikaans young people could not afford studies at the time. Solidarity, and specifically Solidarity Helping Hand, continues this initiative through the Solidarity Helping Hand’s Study Trust which has granted more than 12 000 study loans worth R272 million to 6 388 students in need over the past 15 years.
Ons Plek (Our Place)
Solidarity Helping Hand’s Ons Plek is an educational community project that is regulation compliant.
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The emphasis is on providing care and quality teaching in Afrikaans to children to enable them to reach their full potential. This support includes the services of a nursery school and after-school services in a safe environment. Ons Plek is a community project serving children from the Afrikaner cultural community. It is based on Christian values and community members contribute to the sustainability of the service to help ensure the prosperity of each child.
Our nationwide activities encompass the following:
- 168 staff members
- 14 regions with at least one regional organiser, social worker and customer service officer in each region
- 158 branches with 1227 active supporting branch members
- 50 town representatives
- 208 points of contact with towns and cities
For more information about Solidarity Helpende Hand’s other projects, please click the link below.