PROJECTS AT A GLANCE
Every day we grow, incorporating and implementing numerous intermediate and large projects within communities. Every impact is meaningful, every project makes a difference.
2012
icon-check Conflict mediation
icon-check Peacebuilding seminars with gang leaders
icon-check Reconciliation meals
icon-check Art therapy
icon-check Community reconciliation interventions (Mini-Truth Commissions)
2013
icon-check Primary school resilience building interventions
icon-check Mother-Child (ECD) – Teen pregnancy support (school-based programme)
icon-check Juvenile offender rehabilitation programme
icon-check Long-term therapy for gang leaders
icon-check Job creation interventions
icon-check Primary school youth resilience training
2014
icon-check Pelikan Park interventions
icon-check Planting of hydroponic gardens
icon-check Liaising with home owners associations
icon-check Ongoing long-term therapy for gang leaders
icon-check Liaison and advising government departments regarding youth-at-risk interventions
icon-check Advising on community-wide reconciliation
icon-check Facilitation of Kimberly 2 land and identity dialogue between 1000 indigenous leaders
2015
icon-check GLAS ENNIE DRAAD anti-gangsterism theatre production
icon-check Unity and reconciliation summits within the community
icon-check Arranged for 500 women from Pelikan Park to participate in the 2015 Woman’s Humanitarian Arts Festival critical dialogue on gangsterism, and the Woman’s March
icon-check Concluded the Poverty Stop Light pilot study in Pelikan Park
icon-check Poverty Gap Analysis – Pelikan Park
icon-check Social cohesion interventions with community leaders
2016
icon-check Policy conference in Belgium
icon-check Participation in the Tunisian Truth and Dignity Commission
icon-check Narcotics Anonymous
icon-check Heritage Day Healing seminar
icon-check Cultural Genocide Conference – Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
icon-check SEFSA Facilitation
2017
icon-check RRF coordinates the establishment of the first-ever Live Khoisan Museum – a living
exhibition – on display at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
icon-check Poverty Gap Analysis
icon-check RRF profile enhancement: Dr Richards appointed as visiting scholar to Texas Christian
University, USA
icon-check RRF hosts leadership conference on Khoe-San history and identity
icon-check Anger Management program delivered to juveniles in a ‘lockup facility’ (i.e. junior prison)
icon-check Launch of Bastaards or Humans book at Castle of Good Hope
icon-check RRF hosts various groups of international CEO’s through London Business School. CEO’s
visit RRF township projects
icon-check Girls-in-Gangs program initiated – Start-Up meeting in London
icon-check Community-building ‘Social Cohesion’ and Therapeutic Support
icon-check Policy Roundtable Discussions
2018
icon-check Western Cape Education department endorses book, Bastaards or Humans, as alternative history book of South Africa
icon-check RRF donates 400 books to High Schools in Western Cape (one per school)
icon-check Anger Management program delivered to youth-at-risk in a safe house in Parkwood Township
icon-check Leadership development program for religious leaders: Rebuilding broken communities
icon-check Girls-in-Gangs program continues in Lavender Hill
icon-check RRF facilitates Human Rights in Vulnerable Communities conference
icon-check RRF interacts with international partners in Columbia regarding Girls-in-Gangs program
2019
icon-check British Airways, major sponsor of Comic Relief, visit RRF
icon-check Centre for African Studies of University of Cape Town co-launches Bastaards or Humans (vol 2) with RRF
icon-check Anger Management program delivered to young women at risk in a safe house in Philipi Farming District
icon-check Global Leadership Encounter training program takes place on Robben Island in partnership with the Robben Island Museum. Curriculum drawn from BOH books.
2020
icon-check Covid-19 response: Project Orange – 6.8 Million oranges distributed to vulnerable communities in Covid-19 hotspots
icon-check Khoisan Identity, Transformation and Human Rights seminars conducted for rural farm workers at Namakwaland Sitrus in Clanwilliam. Sponsored by Embassy of Netherlands in Pretoria.
2021
Gender Based Violence (GBV)
icon-check Developed curriculum for men on how to remedy GBV
icon-check Facilitated GBV workshops for men in rural farmlands
Project Orange
icon-check Distributed oranges (Vitamin C) to vulnerable women groups and early childhood development centres
2022
Gender Based Violence (GBV)
icon-check Facilitated workshop for Religious Leaders
icon-check Delivered Keynote speech at Reconciliation meeting where a police person abused and killed family members
Women’s Health
icon-check Supplying (and testing) washable sanitary pads for teenagers in underprivileged communities in rural areas
Community Development
icon-check Sponsored local rugby team
icon-check Beautification of towns – Contributed and participated in a CLEAN TOWN initiative (Skip Bin project)
Feeding Program
icon-check Providing 2500 meals per month to early childhood development centres in rural farmland areas
Youth education & development / employment creation
icon-check Training up local youth to produce and perform in a local movie about the challenges facing mothers in rural farming areas
2023
Education & Literacy development
icon-check Donated books on various subjects to high schools in underprivileged areas
icon-check Bursary – provided sponsorship for a youth studying at college
Feeding program
icon-check Provided packages of meals for a family of six – just add water.
icon-check Providing 2500 meals per month to ECD learners
Health & Safety
icon-check Provided sanitary pads for teenagers at primary and high school
icon-check Developed a child safety program to help prevent rape and abuse
Community Development
icon-check Joined local business chamber every third Saturday to pick up garbage in the community
icon-check Assisted in the rebuilding (replanting) and beautification of the municipal indigenous wild flower garden
2024
Forthcoming
Public Health
icon-check Will volunteer at community medical centres via one of our Trustees who is a medical doctor
Movie “Skuld”
icon-check Launch of Movie “SKULD” (English GUILT) made in rural farm lands (see 2022 youth program)
Capital Raising
Approximately R218 million [USD 12m] needed for a range of project including:
icon-check YOUTH EMPLOYMENT – Project Bicycle – a job readiness intervention focussing on youth skills development (R40m over four years)
icon-check CHILD SAFETY – to teach and empower 7000 school children in rural farming areas with life skills and body awareness to prevent sexual and physical abuse (R12m over two years )
icon-check GENDER BASED VIOLENCE – GBV Restoration centre – build GBV centre on a farm (R50m (once off) to build facility and R10m per annum operating capital)
icon-check ECD NUTRITION – Expand Early Childhood Development feeding program to provide 7000 meals per month – 84 000 meals per annum (R 2 million over two years)
icon-check WOMEN’S HEALTH – A mobile Health Clinic focussing on Women’s Health in Rural Area – Acquire a mobile clinic to reach far-flung rural areas with Health Care Services in partnership with public health department (R50m over three years)
icon-check YOUTH AT RISK – Drug and violence prevention among youth – Public viewings and debriefing with youth using the locally made movie “SKULD” performed and produced by local youth (R2m over two years).
icon-check PROJECT ORANGE – Distribute seven million oranges to poor and vulnerable communities during winter (R7 million per annum)
icon-check MOVIE MAKING YOUTH EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVE – linked to indigenous Khoisan history – Build a stunt school and make a Hollywood block buster movie based on two books approved for inclusion in history curriculum of high school learners (R55m [USD 3m] movie making budget).