Stepping Stones Day Care Center

Located in downtown Cape Town, sharing space with the District Six Museum in the Old Slave Church, Stepping Stones day care children are an exuberant bunch who sing songs in multiple languages. They come from locations throughout the city, the Cape Flats and the townships. <more>

The Mustadafin Foundation

The Mustadafin Foundation, a social welfare organization based in Cape Town, South Africa was established in 1986 in order to empower the needy, the destitute and the deprived so that they may participate in the running of their own affairs. The vision harnesses empowerment mechanisms for the deprived, destitute, indigent and disadvantaged. The Foundation creates support structures to develop a sense of empowerment which results in independence. The motto is "And they feed, for the love of Allah, the indigent, the orphan and the captive (saying), 'we feed you for the sake of Allah alone no reward do we desire from you, nor thanks" (Quran 76:8,9). <more>

Chris Hani Independent School

Located in Langa, the oldest township in Cape Town, Chris Hani was started by Principal Maureen Jacobs and her staff of volunteers in a set of shipping crates. When unemployment is rife and children play in squalor it makes sense that people moved by their humanity would volunteer to organize these children to prepare for their future. However, the act is one of sheer bravery and the challenges are enormous when structures are nonexistent. <more>

The Apartheid Museum

In the Apartheid Museum you will feel that you were in the townships in the '70s and '80s, dodging police bullets or teargas canisters, or marching and toyi-toyiing with thousands of school children, or carrying the body of a comrade into a nearby house. This extraordinarily powerful museum, certain to become one of Johannesburg's most important tourist attractions, has become an obligatory stop for tourists and residents alike. <more>

Observatory Junior School

Located in the suburb of observatory, at the foot of Devils Peak across from Groote Schuur Hospital where the first Heart Transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Chris Barnard, the school strives to be a modern learning environment. <more>

Lesedi Cultural Village

Lesedi Cultural Village, less than an hour's drive from Johannesburg. Developed in 1995 as a tourist attraction, Lesedi - a seSotho word meaning "light" - now features five traditional homesteads, each representing a different culture: Pedi, Zulu, Xhosa, Basotho and Ndebele. <more>