Ikamva Labantu
Mission
To build the capacity of affiliated Community Based Organisations to achieve effective and efficient delivery of Ikamva Labantu’s four core services, which are:
- Primary Health Interventions
- Education & Skills Development
- Food Security & Enterprise Development
- Land & Buildings
Founders
Ikamva Labantu’s founder, Helen Lieberman began her work over 40 years ago assisting women in the impoverished townships around Cape Town. It was officially launched as a Non-Profit Organization in 1992.
The Story behind It
Ikamva Labantu (‘the Future of our Nation’) is a South African non-profit, non-governmental organisation. It traces its roots back to the days of apartheid, when Helen Lieberman started working with women in the poverty-stricken townships around Cape Town. These compassionate beginnings led to a movement of social development that has grown into the organisation it is today: an umbrella body with a network of over 1,000 projects working with and assisting various sectors of the population — children, youth, families, seniors and those physically challenged. These projects improve the daily lives of tens of thousands of the neediest people in South Africa.
Today Ikamva Labantu is a massive organisation that helps thousands of people in need in South Africa. It builds and supports creches, schools, senior and youth centres, programmes for the disabled, skills training and building initiatives.
It employs social workers, occupational therapists, community fieldworkers, nurses and teams of volunteers.
Ikamva Labantu develops solutions by South Africans for South Africans, building step by step, and person by person.
Uniquely, this charity works from the inside out, rather than from the outside in. In this way we maintain community ownership and direction.