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The success stories below are examples of these processes that happen daily, but which one tends not to "see."
 | Whittlesea: The Qhayisa Active Learning Library |
| Cradock: The Cradock After School Care Development Forum |
| Queenstown: The Ubuntu Soap-Making Project |
The Qhayisa Active Learning Library in Whittlesea
Qhayisa is a unique resource in the rural community of SADA and Whittlesea. It offers the following:
| Educational materials and equipment for children from 6 to 18 years. |
| The educational materials include fabric paints, sewing machines, computers and printers. |
| Human rights workshops for children and youth are also offered. |
| Support workshops for after school facilitators are regularly provided. |
| Entrepreneurial development opportunities are also available. |
The resource is managed entirely by the local community through HASCO - the Hewu After School Care Organisation in partnership with PASCaP. The resource was established in 2003.
Cradock After School Care Development Forum - CRASDEF
With the establishment of 6 after school care centres in Cradock in 2004, the association uniting the 6 centres has increasingly focused on developing the sustainability of these centres. Apart from developing competency in human rights work amongst children and youth, it has recently embarked on an micro-entrepreneurship project in order to enhance their own sustainability and also to offer a wider range of skills training opportunities to the vast number of unemployed youth.
Also locally managed in partnership with PASCaP, the CRASDEF micro-entrepreneurship project has achieved the following:
| delivered a number of skills training programmes to local unemployed youth |
| successfully initiated a household detergent income-generating business |
| started a second-hand shop and low-priced clothing shop |
| started a sewing business where garments and other small items are made on order. |
The group is also in the process of developing their own capacity in:
| counselling those living with HIV/AIDS - as many of those attending the after school centre activities are affected |
| computer skills - in order to train others and also to enhance their own business competency. |
The Ubuntu Soap-Making Project, Queenstown
This project is managed by a social work student, Nina Tanggaard, who conducted her practical work at PASCaP in 2005. With the training in soap-making received at PASCaP, the Ubuntu project was launched in Queenstown with the aim of enhancing the sustainability of the 5 after school centres initiated in Queenstown, Lady Frere and Ezibeleni.
Nina Tanggaard took the initiative to raise the seed finance for the project in her native country of Norway, and returned to South Africa after completing her social work degree. Thereafter, work on Ubuntu began in earnest. In May 2006, the Ubuntu project opened their first shop in Queenstown. This is a major achievement and demonstrates that by working together, the sustainability process may be effectively managed. PASCaP supports the Ubuntu Soap-Making business by providing training to the group in product manufacture, and by facilitating the supply chain of raw materials.
To read more about the Ubuntu project, please go to their website: www.ubuntuprosjektet.com