The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is a broad alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa. These include: African farmers’ organizations, African NGO networks, specialist African NGOs, consumer movements in Africa, international organizations which support the stance of AFSA, and individuals. Its members represent smallholder farmers, pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, indigenous peoples; faith based institutions, and environmentalists from across Africa. It is a network of networks and currently with 30 active members.

A Spring of Hope is a community development organization in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces of South Africa.
At local schools, we install sustainable water and sanitation facilities, support school gardens, and fund student health and wellness programs. We provide a range of services and programs designed to promote self-sufficiency and mutual aid, including small-enterprise mentorship, organizing spaces, a robust community garden, and afterschool programs.

By promoting food security, access to clean water, and community development, ASOH seeks to empower rural South Africans to pave their own path into the future. Will you help us continue our fight for a more resilient South Africa?

A grassroots climate justice movement in Africa where youth are equipped with Afrocentric socio-environmental education to act, advocate and achieve climate justice in their communities.

Africa Climate Reality Project (ACRP) was founded in 2014 and is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The branch supports and works with designated volunteer Regional Coordinators in East, South, Central and West Africa, who organise local activities and days of action. We work with African climate leaders, governments, NGOs, and scientists across the continent to create tools and resources to support a network of active citizens who mobilise communities from Algeria to South Africa to find solutions to climate change and call on world leaders for more ambitious action.

The African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI) was established in 2011 by the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town as a strategic initiative, to “facilitate and substantially extend climate change research and education at UCT with the specific context of addressing the development challenges of Africa from an African perspective”.

Carel du Toit Centre is where children with hearing impairment learn spoken language through the use of hearing technology, natural learning experiences and parental guidance.

The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, is an internationally recognised university-based institution combining academic excellence and effective activism to advance human rights, particularly in Africa. It aims to contribute to advancing human rights, through education, research and advocacy.

Christel House transforms the lives of children experiencing poverty around the world. A robust RR–12 education and a strong character development program are supported by regular healthcare, nutritious meals, guidance counseling, career planning, family assistance and College & Careers support.

The Climate Justice Charter emerges out of six years of campaigning, during the worst drought in South Africa’s history, by the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign and the Cooperative and Policy Alternative Centre. It has been informed by grassroots input from water stressed communities, the media, labour, faith based communities, youth, climate scientists, academics, women’s organisations, environmental and social justice organisations, as well as, think pieces by leading activists. A conference held in November 2019 consolidated a draft which was then placed online for public comment. A final round of public input was provided at a Climate Justice Assembly held on 16 June 2020. The final charter was launched on 28 August and on 16 October 2020 the charter, climate science document and demands from communities were handed over parliament and the Climate Justice Charter Movement was launched. We have demanded that parliament adopt the Climate Justice Charter as per section 234 of the South African Constitution, which provides for charters to be adopted. Moreover, we will use the CJC as a basis for deep just transitions to be initiated in communities and workplaces.

To ensure Africa is not locked-in fossil gas production, we join with movements across Africa in demanding an end to fossil gas and other dirty, dangerous, obsolete and inappropriate energy systems.

Earthlife Africa’s Johannesburg (Jhb) branch was founded in 1988 to mobilise civil society around environmental issues in relation to people. The organisation has since grown to include branches in Cape Town, eThekwini (formerly Durban), as well as in Windhoek, Namibia.

FAN is a Non-Profit Company that addresses gender-based violence, crime and fatherlessness by restoring and equipping men to be nation-builders, fathers and role models. We teach men to use their strength to love, serve, protect and provide and to be activists against any form of abuse.

Food & Trees for Africa (FTFA) is a leading Section 21 Non-Profit Organisation that addresses food security, environmental sustainability, and greening. Our core purpose is to improve lives and landscapes towards healthy people on a healthier planet. We have a large and diverse programme portfolio with programmes active across South Africa since 1990.

Established in 2009 to address widespread hunger in South Africa, FoodForward SA connects a world of excess to a world of need by recovering quality edible surplus food from the consumer goods supply chain and distributing it to community organisations that serve the poor. More than 80% of the food recovered is nutritious food. During the 2022/2023 financial year, we distributed 88 million meals and reached 985,000 people daily through a network of 2,750 beneficiary organisations, across South Africa. We achieved this at a cost per meal of only R0,56, due to the tremendous support from our donors, partners and volunteers.

ForAfrika is the largest African humanitarian and development organisation.

The Gift of the Givers Foundation is the largest disaster response non-governmental organisation of African origin on the African continent. The essence of our presence is to bring hope and restore dignity to the most vulnerable.

We work at the interface between business, government and academia in order to identify and remove barriers to economically viable green economy infrastructure solutions in developing countries, thereby catalysing their replicable and large-scale uptake to enable each country and its citizens to prosper.

Greenpop is an award-winning registered non-profit organisation headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.

We work to restore ecosystems and empower environmental stewards through forest restoration, urban greening, food gardening, and environmental awareness projects across Sub- Saharan Africa. Founded in 2010, we have planted over 200,000 trees and inspired over 356,000 active citizens across South Africa, Zambia, Malawi, and Tanzania.

Since 2005, Home from Home has successfully provided supported, family-style foster care to orphaned, abused, neglected and vulnerable children.

Since 2010, we've provided global opportunities to engage and educate ocean-users with the world beneath the waves in order to understand their personal opportunity to protect the planet.
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I AM WATER gives visibility to the fact that humankind cannot survive without nature and nature cannot survive unless we radically change our behaviour.

IkamvaYouth provides a safe space for learners to be after class ends, where they receive help with their homework and a host of other services and support to ensure they succeed. Since our humble beginnings, we have grown from one branch to more than fifteen and support over 5,000 learners per year through our various programmes.

Kusini Water is a social enterprise that builds water treatment systems from nanotechnology and locally sourced macadamia nut shells.
Our systems bring clean, safe drinking water to people in rural, peri-urban and informal settlements throughout the African continent.

We are an independent, non-profit, non-governmental human rights organisation, started by a group of activist lawyers in 1979.

Our programmes do strategic work in six areas of human rights law. Specialist legal practitioners and activists staff each programme.
LHR employs a holistic approach to social justice and human rights enforcement that includes strategic litigation, advocacy, law reform, human rights education, and community mobilisation and support.

Little Eden is a registered non-profit organisation and PBO providing life-long care to 300 children and adults with profound intellectual disability in two custom designed residential facilities – Domitilla and Danny Hyams Home in Edenvale, and Elvira Rota Village, in Bapsfontein.

Manger Care Centre (MCC) creates an environment to positively uplift and empower vulnerable and destitute beneficiaries through its various initiatives. We achieve these goals through various programmes that provide feeding, clothing, skills development, stay & pay opportunities, 12 Step Recovery programme, Mental Health support service (South African Depression and Anxiety Group) and housing for these beneficiaries.

Memeza is a Social Enterprise, founded in 2012 by victims of Gender Based Violence, with the goal to create a safer South Africa.

Memeza works through Private and Public partnerships to target the most vulnerable communities, which enables us to deploy a variety of unique community based solutions, services and technology, specifically designed to create healthier, empowered and flourishing communities.

Nal’ibali (isiXhosa for “here’s the story”) is a national reading-for-enjoyment campaign. It seeks to spark and embed a culture of reading in children from birth to 12 years of age, across South Africa, through cultivating, enticing reading content in all South African languages. Nal'ibali promotes the use of home languages in nurturing and strengthening reading culture in children as home language is transparent, easy to learn and is the first language that children connect with, in order to socialise and make sense of the world around them.

National Mentorship Movement is a non-profit organisation aimed at building a movement that allows every South African to prosper and grow through Mentorship – the Power of Two.

We connect volunteer mentors, who have experience and a willingness to contribute, with mentees who have a desire to thrive. Once we have matched a mentee with a suitable mentor, we help them foster a relationship of mutual trust through combining their skills and experience to transform the life of the mentee and, often, that of the mentor as well.

A children's home in Jhb with a focus on getting kids adopted into forever families.

The Oranjezicht City Farm (OZCF) is an educational non-profit project in Cape Town, South Africa, celebrating local food, culture and community through urban agriculture. It is part of the SA Urban Food & Farming Trust, which works through food and farming to strengthen South Africa’s urban communities and the ecosystems that sustain them.

Project 90 by 2030 is a social and environmental justice organisation inspiring and mobilising South African society towards a sustainably developed and equitable low-carbon future by means of a Just Energy Transition.

Protect the West Coast (PTWC) is a not-for-profit organisation (NPO) established in 2020 by a group of concerned citizens who wanted to put a stop to the illegal and destructive mining activities which are running rampant on South Africa’s West Coast.

A non-profit that gives bicycles to people in return for work done to improve their environment or community (e.g. collecting recyclable materials or growing indigenous tree seedlings), or their academic results (kids use the bikes to improve their school attendance).

Qhubeka also trains up bicycle mechanics to ensure the bikes they distribute get maintained, which also helps create new jobs.

Rays of Hope is a Non-Profit Company (NPC) and a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO), which manages a large number of social outreach programmes in Alexandra Township (Alex) in northern Johannesburg. The organisation focuses on children and their families to improve all aspects of their lives, journeying with them from vulnerability to independence. This creates a lasting impact on the broader Alex community.

The first core objective of Regreening Africa is to scale-up evergreen agriculture, using locally appropriate techniques including Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration, tree planting and other forms of agroforestry and complementary sustainable land management interventions.

The second core objective of the program focuses on strategic decision making for scaling which entails working across the eight countries to collect and apply evidence in multi-stakeholder engagement and policy processes. Through these engagement processes and technical advisory, we aim to equip eight countries with the surveillance and analytical tools for land degradation that support strategic decision-making and monitoring.

Rise Against Hunger Africa primarily engages volunteers in meal packaging events across South Africa, where groups come together to assemble nutritious meals that are then distributed to Early Childhood Development centres and communities in need. These events are a way for individuals and businesses to make a tangible impact in the fight against hunger in Africa.

Rise Against Hunger Africa operates their own distribution network alongside partnering with local organisations to distribute meals, facilitate sustainable farming projects and coordinating disaster relief activities.

The SANParks Honorary Rangers volunteer organisation is open to people with a passion for nature and a dedication to support the South African National Parks. We facilitate various activities through which the public can become involved in support of SANParks and enjoy the wonder of our natural heritage.

Established in 1969, South Africa Tourism Services Association (SATSA) is a non-profit membership-based tourism industry association, currently representing over 1,100 inbound tourism products across Southern Africa offering a wide range of services and products across the tourism value chain.

Born from the vision of the National Science and Technology Forum of South Africa (NSTF) it encourages children of all ages to pursue STEM-related subjects and careers. The STEMulator is designed to operate on several platforms and devices to reach even the most remote areas – and the most sophisticated.

Develops and supports children in five programme areas:

1. Holistic Early Childhood Care and Development Programme: Giving young children under five a safe, stimulating and quality early living and learning environment.
2. Health and Nutrition Programme: Ensuring that no child under the age of five dies from preventable disease, and all children in South Africa will grow healthily and have long-term good health.
3. Education Programme: Improving education so every child in South Africa receives a quality basic education.
4. Child Protection Programme: Working to make sure all children in South Africa thrive in a safe environment free from violence.
5. Children’s Rights Governance Programme: Advocating so that all children will benefit from a strengthened child-rights system that advances and monitors the realisation of their rights."

Soil for Life provide training and support to individuals that want to grow food at home as well as to groups of gardeners involved in school and community food growing projects. All of the gardening methods we teach centre on building healthy, fertile soil that is packed with microbial life and able to give high yields of the best quality food – even from the smallest of spaces.

AfriCGE is a non-profit multi-disciplinary research and advisory think tank working towards a green economy.

We provide research and advisory, green enterprise development and investments services to government, business and civil society.

The Living Link is a non-profit organisation that caters for the intellectually disabled and learning challenged community regardless of race, gender and religious background. It aims to encourage, enhance and support the development of intellectually disabled adults, helping them attain a high quality of life. We have training centers in both Johannesburg and Cape Town.

The National Council of and for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) has played an integral role in shaping South Africa into a country where persons with disabilities have access to equal opportunities and rights. For eight and a half decades we have run awareness programmes, influenced government policies, promoted physical and social access, and facilitated economic participation for and with persons with disabilities.

The Sporting Chance Foundation inspires South African children to develop a lifelong passion for exercise and sport and to enjoy a healthy and positive lifestyle. The Foundation is committed to identifying and nurturing natural and raw sports talent among South African children.

Through the Foundation South African children from impoverished communities are provided the opportunity to play sport in a safe and structured environment while simultaneously receiving an education on important life skills. The Foundation focuses on fostering the upliftment of children by teaching them to prioritise their education and to steer away from social evils.

The Sporting Chance Foundation was officially registered as an NPO in 2009, although the team had been rolling out community development interventions and programmes since Sporting Chance was launched in 1990.

The Winnie Mabaso Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded by British Filmmaker, Lisa Ashton, in honour and support of Mama Winnie Mabaso, who was dedicated to empowering orphans and vulnerable children in the community of Finetown.