CAPE TOWN

Many of PASCaP's programmes are piloted in Cape Town. The first pilot programme in 1992 was the Parkwood After School Care Project which today is an autonomous community-based organisation. This first pilot entailed the development of a poverty-focused approach to child development which was aimed at reducing academic failure and school drop-out. The first pilot was a resounding success with school pass rates increasing from below 50% to over 90% within 3 years.

Since then PASCaP has piloted its various learning and development programmes in Cape Town, thereafter extending operations to the rural areas of the Western Cape and also the Eastern Cape.

Currently, the development projects engaged in are:

project	commmunitie
urban regeneration	New Crossroads
Project Nonkqubela - household and personal care product manufacture, including small business development and support	Philippi Phumlani Red Hill Vrygrond
After School Care Centre Support Project	Khayelitsha Langa Mbekweni, Wellington New Crossroads
Child Protection and Children's Rights	Khayelitsha New Crossroads Langa
Human rights community education	Khayelitsha New Crossroads Langa
Women and Youth Entrepreneurial Project	Mbekweni, Wellington New Crossroads Fish Hoek Site 5 - Masiphumelele
HIV/AIDS Youth Educators	Khayelitsha, Mitchell's Plain
HIV/AIDS community awareness	Mbekweni, Wellington New Crossroads
Youth substance dependence prevention	Mbekweni, Wellington New Crossroads

The new pilot projects planned are:

	Youth IT development project
	child and youth support project (to counter substance abuse and dependence).

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