All information about the projects is provided by the project co-ordinators.

1. CYT - Certificate of Youth project
2. Jikeleza
3. Ethical leadership project
4. Artscape
5. Brawam-Siswam (Brother-Sister) project at UWC
6. Travelling Exhibition: "Face the people"
7. Agri-Renaissance Partnership

The CYT (Certificate of Youth) project is being nurtured in a focus area of the Novalis Ubuntu Institute, in Wynberg. This is a civil society organisation (CSO) committed to building a vibrant civil society with high ideals for raising awareness around social issues. This includes the need for quality creative education and youth empowerment and to challenge, change and make a significant difference for the betterment of all in the country and beyond its borders.

Read the detail on the CYT website: http://www.cyt.org.za

The project is a private initiative but partnerships have been established with Cape Town City Ballet, La Rosa Spanish Dance Theatre, Jazzart Dance Company, Artscape and Hout Bay Music Project

Dancers from the Jikeleza Project

The project was started in 2002 and is on-going.

Jikeleza (Xhosa for "pirouette" or "turn around") was established By Edmund Thwaites and Atholl Hay in 2002 and currently teaches African, Spanish, contemporary dance, classical ballet and music to children from the historically disadvantaged communities of Hout Bay, in Nyanga and at the Learn-to-Live program for street youth in Green Point.

Jikeleza reaches approximately 200 children every week and adopts a holistic approach to children's development, with foster-care placement, supplementary literacy classes and counseling being included in the program.

Jikeleza ballerinas: Jo-Anne Abrahams, Lauren Phillips, Robyn, Lu

Talented students are given the opportunity to prepare for a possible career in the performing arts.

Regular performances have enabled the project to achieve a high level of self-sustainability in a relatively short time.

Jikeleza was awarded a Western Cape Arts & Culture Award for its contribution to the performing arts in 2005.

The project uses music and dance to integrate youth and children from historically separate communities, building bridges between these communities and is a great source of pride for these communities.

Wherever possible, jobs are created for members of the communities (driving, studio maintenance, wardrobe maintenance, child-care, feeding).

The project uses dance as a medium to teach life-skills and to provide children with safe, creative and healthy extra-mural activities. The project also uses dance to raise awareness around issue such as HIV/Aids, child-abuse and substance abuse.

Four trainee teachers have been appointed from within the communities to ensure the long-term sustainability of the program. One of these trainee teachers is currently enrolled for her dance teacher's diploma at the University of Cape Town and another is undergoing formal music training.Jikeleza provides employment for an additional 6 part-time dance teachers.

To date, 4 former street children have been placed in foster care through the project.

Atholl Hay/ Edmund Thwaites

Tel/fax: 021 434 3100
Email: jikeleza@ananzi.co.za
Website: www.jikeleza.co.za

• Cape Town City Ballet
• National Arts Council
• Lions Club International
• City of Cape Town
• Arts & Culture Trust
• Chance4All Foundation (Netherlands)
• Nussbaum Foundation
• Stella & Lorenzo Chiappini Ballet Trust
• National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund
• the Joan St Leger Lindbergh Trust
• Artscape
• Western Cape Department of Social Development.

This document is available in word and pdf describing the vision and objectives of the project. Contact details are also available in the document.

The Artscape Resource Centre aims to strengthen cultural life through innovative empowerment initiatives. It offers accessible services to the arts community of the Western Cape with the focus on empowering young artists by transferring knowledge, building networks and promoting collaboration.

The emphasis is on youth and young emerging artists with a holistic approach, where artistic, business and life skills are merged into one. The Resource Centre seeks to nurture entrepreneurial development by providing supportive services which meet the basic needs of emerging artists. The Resource Centre is primarily appreciated and utilised by previously disadvantaged artists, cultural entrepreneurs and performers and plays an invaluable role in servicing the artistic community. In addition, a rural outreach initiative seeks to create opportunities for disadvantaged young talent to gain access to valuable skills and learning opportunities.

The Artscape Resource Centre aims to engage young and emerging artists in an internship/mentoring project in a variety of disciplines and around various aspects of the industry. The project aims to develop skills and knowledge of artists in arts management.

It further aims to strengthen and support urban and rural arts projects to enable them to continue to provide a creative outlet for youth in disadvantaged communities such as Manenberg, Beaufort West, Vredendal and Bredasdorp.

Interns are placed in a number of different departments within Artscape. Interns are further also placed in community based arts organisations that are affiliated to the Resource centre providing an invaluable support to these organisations and an incredible learning opportunity to interns

• Guga Sithebe - Langa
• Novalis Ubuntu Centre - Wynberg
• Dance For All - Claremont
• Mamela - Manenberg
• Nyanga Arts Centre- Nyanga
• Alliance Francaise Mitchell's Plain
• Manenberg High School Steelband Project

The duration of the project is June 2006- February 2007

The project brings together a diverse group of artists -they vary in age, background education, level of work experience, different experience in the industry, but all have a passion for the arts and believe in the power of the arts to change lives and build communities.

It also brings a number of its affiliate organisations into a network to share, collaborate and collectively provide creative outlets in communities.

This project will run for 9 months during which participants will be engaged in a structured learning process. This process includes training and mentoring where the individual is paired with a senior, experienced colleague in her/his discipline who acts as both a support (imparting skills and knowledge) and a challenge. Each participant will produce a portfolio of evidence at the end of the process.

Training will include personal development and the development of arts management skills deemed necessary.

Rural support will mainly be done through providing training towards a specific event or performance. An initial information gathering exercise took place in Vredendal during April. This coincided with a production staged by Artscape. This is part of Artscape's mission to bring theatre the people and to build rural communities through the arts. The interest was excellent and local organisations are eager to forge a partnership with Artscape. The Resource Centre is currently developing its plans for training in Vredendal.

Marlene le Roux
Director: Audience Development and Education - Artscape
marlenel@artscape.co.za

Amanda Barnes
Project Manager: Artscape Internship Project
mandybarnes@iafrica.com

Any other remarks, comments or input for the webpage are welcome!!

As Marlene Le Roux, director for Audience Development and Education the department responsible for the implementation of the internship at Artscape says:"As Artscape we believe that the Youth of 1976 has given their lives for skills development, access to opportunities and It was a cry for knowledge that is why June 16 is not just a celebration IT MUST BE WHAT ARE WE EQUIPING OUR YOUTH WITH."

The "Brawam-Siswam" (Brother-Sister) partnership project is a collaborative initiative between the Western Cape Provincial Department of Social Development, the Western Cape Education Department, and the University of the Western Cape

Brawam-Siswam is a pilot programme in which 200 students from the University of the Western Cape mentor 400 grade 9 high school learners from 24 different schools in the areas of Manenberg, Mitchell's Plain, Khayelitsha and Gugulethu. The University of the Western Cape selected and trained 200 students to participate as mentors and coaches in this mutually beneficial life skills programme.

The exhibition of photographs, portraits, stories and audio-visual material launched on 22 April 2006 at Langa could be viewed as a tool that could be utilised in many different ways. To date the collaboration between the Social Capital Project and the Metro District Health Committee Forum has resulted in the selection of nominees, the painting of portraits, conducting & recording of interviews as well as the photographing of the work of the nominees. These processes have culminated in the launch of the "Face the People" Exhibition and of the Social Capital Project attended by almost 300 people.

The initial phases of the Project were steered and controlled by the Social Capital Project office in Woodstock with support from the executive of the District Health Committee Forum. The next phases, when the exhibition will travel to the sub-districts will be co-ordinated by the executive of the District Health Committee Forum with support from the Social Capital Project office.

• Phase One: Project definition including identifying criteria against whom we would like to honour people, selection of Nominees
• Phase Two: Portrait painting, recording of photographs
• Phase Three : Launch of Exhibition & Exhibition travels to different venues within the METRO and beyond.
• Travelling exhibition as a tool:

The opening of the exhibition in each district takes the form of a public meeting during which key stakeholders working and living in the district are invited to a meeting hosted by the specific district health forum. At this particular meeting the members of the forum are introduced to the public, the roles and functions of the HCS & DHCF are clarified and the vision and future plans discussed. This is an opportunity to build the profile of these structures.

The exhibition is to remain at each venue for at least one month, during this time a series of meetings, workshops and discussions could be held in the space Schools are invited to organise tours to the venue to view the exhibition.

A number of opportunities exist during the exhibition for the communities to engage the HCS & HCF. An active HC could ensure that a range of stakeholders visit the exhibition on a regular basis.

Travelling Exhibition as a tool to strengthen governance structures within health:

In coming together and organising the travelling exhibition, the partnership between the MDHS and HCFS on the one hand and between the health committees and the sub-district health forum on the other hand could be strengthened.

Travelling Exhibition could also be seen as a tool to extend cultural activities and build on the honouring of community health workers through communities conducting their own social history projects about people who have contributed significantly to social capital formation in their communities.

If you would like to have the DVD or would like to know more about the project

Contact: Rita Edwards
riedward@pgwc.gov.za

Have a look what Premier Rasool said about the project and social capital.

A project for the regeneration of small farms in the Cape Winelands District Municipality

The initiators of this partnership realised that the revival and success of resource-poor small farm operations are dependent on access to inputs, technology and markets. This partnership began to establish and grow organically among a group of committed people, who pool and network their individual knowledge and project resources to prepare and assist small farmer initiatives in the Cape Winelands District Municipality (CWDM) of the Western Cape Province.

Projects

Kylemore Organic Food Farming Project

This organic food garden project driven as a community initiative is located next to a primary school in the heart of the Dwars River Valley. Land preparation work started September 2005, which comprised a land survey to assess natural storm water drainage, leveling of land and ploughing of soil using a digger loader and tractor. Twenty-two people from the community received training, with specific objectives of soil preparation and organic planting methods. Activities key to the daily operation of the food garden, include:

• Operation and maintenance of the borehole and irrigation system and watering of vegetable beds.
• Composting, mulching, plantings of seedlings, pest control, weedingand general garden maintenance.
• Operation of a nursery to maintain ongoing supply of seedlings
• Cultivation of herbs and medicinal plants
• Arranging open days for sale of the organic produce in the community, supplying produce for the soup kitchens at the schools and clinic

For more information:

Mr Martin Albertus
Tel: 021 888 5808
Email: albertus@bolanddm.co.za

Reducing Chemical Inputs and Costs for Vegetable-Producing Small Farmers.

At the start of this project, funded by the CWDM, Local Economic Development department, we tried to understand some of the general and relevant needs of community garden and small farmer endeavour's in the district. From November 2005 to February 2006 the project leader identified with the relevant stakeholders the following important needs in relation to the objectives of the project:

• For pest control they need assistance with the correct identification of pests and how to control it with environmental friendly inputs
• Soil fertility analysis and recommendations for organic soil building inputs
• Irrigation infrastructure and water saving practices.
• Access to affordable and high quality seeds and seedlings.
• Some small farmers have insufficient funds to optimis e their inputs and to cover labour cost

This project eventually assisted vegetable garden and small farm operations in the CWDM as follow:

• Distribution of information pamphlets and advice on the management of problematic vegetable insect pests as well as bacterial and fungal diseases
• Installation of a portable sprinkler irrigation system with filter.
• Cattle and poultry manure as well as green manure seeds for soil building
• Supply of vegetable seeds and seedlings
• Herbal and medicinal plants for community and school gardens as well as the labour inputs to establish the gardens
• Weed control and liquid fertilizer applications in essential oil crops

For more information:
Dr Jeremy Klaasen
Tel: 021 959 3030
Email: jklaasen@uwc.ac.za

Household Garden Competition

The Matie Community Services, Adult Basic Education and Training programme accommodate domestic workers, employees of companies, jobless people and farm workers in the Stellenbosch area as learners. In order to encourage the learners in the programme to grow their own food they were given the opportunity to participate in a garden competition. The first home gardens of workers located primarily on commercial farms and land of the National Department of Agriculture were evaluated for awards in December 2005.

For more information:

Mrs Linda Jacobs
Tel: 883 8871
Email: jjja@sun.ac.za

Agri-Renaissance Partnership: Building Networks

Through experience we found that with local government funded projects you need to inform the participants about the processes andprocedures of the procurement system.

Well-behaved andconsistent interaction with the finance staff could bear good fruits for thefinance of the project and its future. Even at this level outsiders to the government systems need to commit time to patiently engage in building trust and even assist in removing barriers of communication amongst staff in different departments. It is also important to consider the need of providing these officials with feed back on the progress made due to their support and to acknowledge their assistance.

• Local government officials, councillors and municipal delegates from local and neighbouring towns and districts, members of the public and private sector are encouraged to visit the sites to observe the progress, successes and challenges of the projects.
• Participants in projects and members of the informal network are informed of workshop and training opportunities especially via e-mail and cell phone communication technologies. It seems to be important that when working with community groups, conscious efforts are made to be transparent as extensive as possible, using especially written means of communications and formal and informal meetings.
• Pictures of the progress and successes and reports of the challenges inprojects are communicated to the government officials at the operational as well as strategic level on a regular basis.
• In the area of farm production inputs (e.g. manure, mulch, seeds or seedlings) the participants in the network make enquiries about service providers and quantities required in the different projects to ensure bulk buying, lower prices and to create examples of sharing resources amongst different community initiatives.
• It is important that the scope of the project provides the linkage to Integrated Development (IDP) needs in term of health, social development, local economic development and job creation where possible. We have developed a network of SMME service providers that participate in the procurement opportunities that local government offer. Interact with local market agents that provide access to fresh produce market in Epping and local organic farmers market.

School garden - before and after: pics

STAKEHOLDERS

• Farmers:
• Food security gardens on farms
• schools and clinic yards
• Community gardens
• Small holder farms
• Stellenbosch Small Farm Holding Trust
• Stellenbosch Empowerment Trust
• Kylemore Organic Food Garden
• Government:
• Cape Winelands District Municipality
• LED
• Stellenbosch Municipality
Health Services
• Western Cape Department of Education
• Provincial Department of Agriculture, National Department of Agriculture.
• SMME's:
• Kylemore community Nursery
• PLE Irrigation Services
• Premier Attraction 773
• KC Phyto Enterprises
• Edges Garden Services
• Gen & Joe
• Flower and Cleaning Services
• Uhlobo Construction
• Other
• Kylemore Community Craft Centre
• Imbali Visual Literacy Project
• University of the Western Cape
• University of Stellenbosch.

Outlook

The Agri-Renaissance Partnership will increase its interaction and skill sharing by individuals that are forming a network within networks. We are committed to ensure that the Western Cape small and emergent farmer is sustained, economically viable and well supported at the local level.

• Increase our efforts for access to government small farm and food security programmes, resources and decision-making bodies.
• Support efforts to increase and preserve small farmer land ownership, and to remove barriers to land access for food production.
• Promote community, clinic and school garden programmes.
• Support the participation of SMME's in food production, environmental protection and conservation projects.
• Increase efforts of networking with the public and private sector to establish export market opportunities for essential oils and herbs