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
UPCOMING: Build a Restoration Centre and ECD centre for survivors of Gender-based Violence and their children
UPCOMING: Job creation for 100 survivors of Gender-based Violence on a vegetable farm outside Clanwilliam in a town called Graafwater.