WESSA (Wildlife and Environment Society of South Africa)
WESSA -is a national, environmental, membership-based non-government organisation that works to ensure environmental sustainability for current and future South African generations by building society’s environmental sensitivity and competence.
Food & Trees for Africa is South Africa's national greening social enterprise that started in 1990 to address global warming, and now develops, manages and promotes greening, climate change action, sustainable natural resource management and food security programmes.
The Sešego Cares team is guided by the premise of “Ubuntu” which transcends the potential and promise that cooperation and willingness to pursue a common goal delivers
Since 2000 MSF has been working in South Africa, primarily in response to the HIV epidemic. In Khayelitsha, the largest township in the Western Cape, MSF has worked with the provincial authorities to pioneer comprehensive HIV treatment, including antiretroviral (ARV) medicines, at a primary care level. Today, these clinics support over 10,000 people on ARV therapy.
The National Council of SPCAs (NSPCA) works nationally to uplift the welfare of all animals. This includes the sometimes forgotten ones such as working donkeys, animals in research laboratories, animals being transported, animals being auctioned or “production” or “food” animals.
The organization is also involved in community-based conservation projects, environmental education, the training of bird guides, the management of bird-watching routes,and the organization of events (such as the Sasol Birds & Birding Fair and the Sappi BirdLife South Africa Birding Big Day).
The Amy Biehl Foundation is a NPO working towards township youth development in the Western Cape and named after Amy Biehl, a humanitarian, researcher & academic who helped create a new democracy but who died in South Africa in 1993 - a victim of apartheid's racial tension.
The South African Guide-Dogs Association for the Blind (SAGA)
Gladys Evans and her Guide dog Sheena founded the South African Guide-dogs Association for the Blind (SAGA) in 1953. All puppies are bred from specially selected stock, very often from dogs already bred by us. Every attempt is made to ensure that all breeding stock is free from any hereditary diseases. The dogs used are the Labrador and Golden Retrievers.
SANCCOB aims to protect and conserve southern Africa's coastal birds, especially threatened species, for the benefit of present and future generations.
The Children's Hospital Trust, the fundraising arm of the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and is dedicated to supporting the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital in serving the children of Africa by promoting the Hospital as a centre of paediatric excellence and by raising capital for selected needs.
The NSRI is a non-profit organisation that saves lives on South African waters.
Sea Rescue is run by 840 highly skilled volunteers who are on standby day and night throughout the year. Donations and sponsorships cover the annual running cost of R15m.
Imagine being diagnosed with leukemia? For many this is just unthinkable, but each year thousands of South Africans (mostly children and teenagers) have to face this terrifying reality.
Fulfilling the dreams of children with life-threatening illnesses.Reach For A Dream is a non-profit organisation which fulfils the dreams of children between the ages of 3 and 18 who have been diagnosed with living with life-threatening illnesses.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust was established in 1973 and is registered as a Non-profit Organisation. The Trust's first fundraising effort was also its founding moment. Clive Walker was inspired to paint a watercolour of a Cheetah, to sell 250 signed, numbered copies, and to use this money to help conserve the Cheetah that was, and in some places still is, shot as vermin.
The SOS Children's Villages South Africa is a private, charitable, social development organisation. It is politically and denominationally independent, and is an affiliated member of SOS-Kinderdorf International.
Noah (Nurturing Orphans of AIDS for Humanity) is a registered not-for-profit organisation with the sole focus of building the capacity of communities to care for their orphaned and vulnerable children.
Starfish Greathearts Foundation is an international development charity, aiming to bring life, hope and opportunity to orphaned and vulnerable children in South Africa. We believe that everyone can make a very real difference to the lives of these children.
It should be established at the outset that The Society for Animals in Distress (SAID) is not a 'homing' organization. And only by visiting our special farm is one able to appreciate the uniqueness of our dynamic Society. As a major non-profit provider of professional veterinary services since 1958, we strive to create a safe and healthy environment for all animals within educated and prosperous communities north- and north-east of Johannesburg.
The Council can be described as a network of organisations who collaborate towards the prevention of blindness in order to secure the full participation and inclusion of blind and partially sighted people in all aspects of a diverse South African society.
CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation is a country wide voluntary organisation. It brings together the parents of children who suffer from all varieties of cancer or life threatening blood disorders.
Childline is an effective non-profit organisation that works collectively to protect children from all forms of violence and to create a culture of children's rights in South Africa.
One doesn't have to be an activist to proclaim that open space, bio-diversity and natural ecological systems are being squeezed into dysfunction in our modern society. And if such crucial features of our planet are being brutalised by the rush and expansion of civilisation, what are we to do about it?