Frequently asked questions
Partners with After School Care Projects
They are centers for child and youth development operating after school hours aimed at enhancing the educational, social and personal development of children and youth. After school projects applying the PASCaP model are all poverty-focused and based in communities of extreme resource scarcity, socio-economic marginalisation and/or physical isolation.
Currently PASCaP works in 2 provinces in South Africa: the Western and Eastern Cape. In the Western Cape, programmes are offered in the following towns/cities: Cape Town, George, Beaufort West and Wellington. In the Eastern Cape, PASCaP's work base is in Whittlesea, 30km south of Queenstown. The area covered here is vast stretching from Engcobo in the east to SADA south of Queenstown.
PASCaP is based in Southfield, Cape Town. All learning and development programmes are offered on site, that is, in the communities where work is done.
Our main function is facilitating learning programmes in after school development in both rural and urban contexts. The focus group for these programmes are unemployed women, out-of-school youth and unemployed men. We also offer a range of programmes aimed at sustaining after school projects that have been initiated by communities such as Mentorship, Project Management, CBO Governance and the creation of Active Learning Resource Libraries.
Each learning programmes differs depending on the needs of the community that the course is adapted to. However, learning programmes may be as short as 3 days and as long as 1 year. Development projects such as Women and Youth Entrepreneurship may be ongoing.
Although any person is welcome to attend, preference is given to unemployed women and youth, and after school projects that operate in high poverty profile communities.
PASCaP has achieved full accreditation status with the Education, Training and Development Practices (ETDP) Sector Education Training Authority (SETA).