Through the help of 24 student volunteers, Masifundisane provides environmental awareness, biology and geography skills for 40 grade 11&12 learners in Khayelitsha. Masifundisane aims at creating environmentally aware students, who are aiming to improve the situation around us; to try better their community and the world as a whole. It further aims to create educated students with the skills to pass matric and the skills to better themselves in the future.

The learners will be educated through core-skills focused on the biology and geography curriculum. Also Masifundisane creates environmental awareness through practical applications of environmental concepts including skills based talks and hands-on projects. A main focus will be to look at addressing current environmental issues in Khayelithsa as well as in society. Participants also go on 3 outings and a camp alongside being involved in SHAWCO Wetland activities, such as litter clean ups.

If you would like to know further information please contact the Projetc leader for 2008 Lesley Connolly at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   

Masizame is a project of SHAWCO Education which services children's homes in the Cape Metropolitan area. The three homes visited weekly in the late afternoons and early evenings include SOS, St Georges and Leliebloem with participants ranging from age 3 to 20. The curriculum is focused on core academic subjects such as english and maths as well as life orientation sessions.

 If you would like any further details please contact the project laeder for 2008, Thandile Gwabeni at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Masizikhulise(let us grow together) aims to provide and empower participants with the skills, knowledge and motivation to become more economically productive members of the South African society, which they accomplish by starting their own businesses, getting meaningful jobs, honing and applying their IT skills, as well as being socially responsible and active members of their communities. In 2008, Masizikhulise will seek to consolidate the existing project in Nyanga as well as expanding to Khayelitsha with the same project goals and aspirations.

With the help of 25 dedicated student volunteers at each center, Masizikhulise provides 50-60 unemployed young adults between the ages of 18 and 35 years with an intensive six month programme offering the four sub-projects of business entrepreneurship, employment search skills, IT and breaking-in. Entrepreneurship provides participants with operational business skills/opportunities to formalise their entrepreneurial ideas and aspirations. Employment Search Skills equips participants with appropriate tools to seek out and secure employment opportunities. IT empowers participants with relevant IT skills vital for succeeding in the modern business environment. And lastly, Breaking In produces socially responsible participants that are able to educate and empower their communities.

Along with the weekly sessions of 2 hours roughly per sub-project, Masizikhulise will also organise business events, guest speakers and graduation days.

If you would like any further information please contact the Project Leader for 2008 Vitaliy Voronkov @ This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

SHAWCO Sports is an exciting, dynamic project that reaches out to the participants in the best way possible...FUN! Participation in a variety of 5 different sports (hockey, cricket, soccer, netball and rugby), both the volunteers and participants are able to develop leadership, discipline, team-work and many other critical life skills that are often neglected. Sports operate with learners from grade 4 to 7 in Khayelitsha, Mannenberg and Nyanga. The sports project has been running for 3 years now and the amount of growth experiences has only been surpassed by hte amount of fun.

If you would like any further information please contac the project leader for 2008 Taybah Jaffer at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   

 SHAWCO Sports is an exciting dynamic project that reaches out to the participants in the best way possible…FUN! Through participating in the 5 sports that the project offers (hockey, cricket, soccer, netball and rugby) both the volunteers and participants are able to develop leadership, discipline, team-work and many other critical life skills that are often neglected and not taught early enough in society. In the 3 years that SHAWCO Sports has been running, the amount of growth experienced has only been surpassed by the amount of fun