ABANG AFRICA TRUST® AND PROJECTS

Abang Africa Trust, a non profit organisation (No: IT 9139/06), has been set up to coordinate visits and volunteering work, provide support and handle donations for tourism related projects in southern Africa.

Most projects can be visited and a selection of the projects can be supported by volunteers. Tasks depend on the volunteer’s skills and needs of the project.

Loose your heart and Soul in Africa; meet and share with Africa’s people. Choose to visit and experience projects of your interest on a tour of your choice. Enrich your vacation with knowledge and insights acquired locally.

Benefit the local rural and urban communities directly; see what they are doing to advance themselves. Be inspired and uplifted after visiting an orphanage or HIV-Aids project. Participate in the upgrading of a ghost mine town.

Support a local soccer team, visit an amazing craft or pottery project and enjoy an African dance performance by street children. Learn about the art of winemaking and tasting on a Fairtrade farm. The choice is yours.

Share your suggestions and ideas and support a project of your choice (download support form)

Supporting these various tourism related projects is part of our responsible tourism policy. We relay the feedback and ideas to the project leaders with the aim of improving the tours and the projects as a whole. Abang Africa Travel redistributes a share of its profit and commissions back to the Abang Africa Trust, the liaised projects and their communities.

Contact Abang Africa Travel for further information regarding the Abang Africa Trust and the liaised projects.

 Lofdal Community Projects
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Associated Tours:
Cape Cuisine & Garden Route
Cape, Karoo & Garden Route
Sondela - Come Closer Tour

Visitors are welcome Monday till Fridays. Please give notice of your visit on forehand. The hotel is open every day, for bookings please contact Abang Africa Travel

Volunteers are welcome from one day up to as long as you want!
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PROJECT INFORMATION
Lofdal Christian Academy (LCA)  is a project that was launched by Lofdal Community Projects, a registered Non- Profit Organisation. LCA is an independent mission school, registered with the Department of Education. When LCA opened its doors in 1998 it did so with an intake of 50 learners. Today there are approximately 300 learners up to grade 5.

To ensure the continued success of LCA, we have identified the following goals that we aim to achieve in the near future

Our future goals include:
• The establishment of sport and recreation as well as arts and culture programmes/facilities for learners.
• A parenting skills course to equip parents with the requisite skills to face the challenges that present themselves in their everyday lives.
• Our main goal is, however to obtain donations to fund the building of a bigger school facility

With the financial support  of Stichting Goede Mensen,  facilitated via Abang Africa Trust, in 2009 the building of 3 classrooms, 2 toilet facilities, 2 blackboards, storage rooms, fencing and lockable gate with burglar bars has been finalized.

Lofdal Nutritional Feeding Project  has identified the nutritional needs of children and people struck by poverty in surrounding communities and have initiated a feeding project to fight the ever- increasing malnutrition statistics. We are currently feeding more than 45 000 individuals a month and are aiming to feed between 100 000 and 120 000 persons in the five (5) different impoverished communities that we have identified. These communities include: Bloekombos, Wallacedene, Parow, Franschoek and Maitland.

Our future goals include:
• Providing food to children and adults on a daily basis; and
• Obtaining donations to fund the purchase of a farm to serve as a job creation project and to produce fresh fruit and vegetables to supply the feeding project.

Lofdal House of Safety is yet another project, that has several projects running in different communities, making a difference and impacting the lives of people in dire need. This project focuses on orphan children in the Western Cape, particularly those from impoverished communities. We have successfully remodeled a building and established a house of safety, where we are currently caring for more than 19 orphaned and high risk children between the ages of 5 months and 13 years. We provide them with the love they need and a place where they can feel safe. In this way we are creating a loving home environment where they can dream and pursue a future much brighter than their past.

Our future goals include:
• In the long term: to obtain funding to build a children’s village.
• In the short term: to collect donations to fund the building of a bigger House of Safety that will allow us to make a difference and care of 65 children, including children with HIV/AIDS.

The Hadassah Boutique Hotel is a new venture that has been launched under Lofdal Community Projects.  This facility was previously an old hotel that has been revamped and refurbished with unique pieces of art, making it the perfect venue for a wedding, conference or special meeting. This beauty is home to15 individually designed rooms, including en-suite bathrooms, as well as a honeymoon suite.
Hadassah Boutique Hotel also includes facilities such as a Coffee Shop, Bistro, Main Auditorium, conference rooms and different lounges. It is our belief that whatever we do, we endeavor to be different so that the memories of your visit will be everlasting, offering a unique and pleasant stay to all visitors from around the world.  Hadassah Boutique Hotel is also the proud benefactor of some of the initiatives of Lofdal Community Projects.

Tshepang is a programme for orphaned and vulnerable children. Currently  a team of 27 workers is taking care of 230 children. Meals are provided and small economic activities are initiated, such as a sewing atelier and a vegetable garden.
Baboon Matters is a baboon monitoring project on the Cape Peninsula. Baboon Matters developed the 'Walking with the Baboon' project to bridge the gap between the wild world of the Baboons and the civilised world of their human cousins.
Colleens Place of Hope is an orphanage for abused, homeless and neglected children in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. Vistors, donations and volunteers are welcomed. For more information please contact Abang Africa Trust.
All over the world sport is connecting people.  Underpriviledged football teams in South Africa are now looking for your help to open their world and make their dreams reality. Get your ball rolling and make a real difference!
The Bush School & Wildlife Orphanage is a registered non-profit organisation located in the Limpopo Province, close to the town of Hoedspruit in South Africa.

Join an African mama in her kitchen and try your hand on a cook-up on this alternative wine tour. End off your excursion with an overnight stay in the cultural homestays, if you so wish.

Explore the Big 5 in a private game reserve, in the Eastern Cape, malaria-free area. Participate in the combination of conservation and community development programmes.

The Sport Coaching project is set on the beautiful Cape Peninsula; there is amazing talent waiting to be discovered amongst the underprivileged children in the shanty township of Imizano Yetho.
Visit the first wine farm in the world to receive Fairtrade accreditation - Established in Elgin in 1995, Thandi’s aim is to empower previously disadvantaged farming communities.

The community run Nodumo Creche is located in the rural area of KwaMthethwa; Kwa-Zulu Natal. Most of the children at the creche have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS.
Based in Kraaifontein, Western Cape, the Lofdalproject has established several support systems for the local communities in need. A school, a hospice etc. Come and visit or volunteer and become part of the amazing work done.
Original T-Bag Design CC is a small company, situated in Hout Bay, near Cape Town, providing employment for previously unemployed residents in the local Shanty Town.
Phaphama Initiative is situated in Johannesburg. It is a training organisation teaching people about how they can improve human relationship skills. They also offer home stays where you can experience what if feels like to live as an 'Urban African' in South Africa.

The “Recycle Swop Shop for Kids” was intitiated in 2003 in response to the bitter reality that many children in the Kwasa Kwasa area of Zwelihle Township near Hermanus didn't have basic needs. 

The Siphosabadletshe High School is a project aimed at those children who have been affected by HIV/AIDS. Many are orphans due to their parents and other family members dying of HIV/AIDS.

 

With this programme we actively help save priority species. The programme is responsible for some of most important wildlife research monitoring projects in southern Africa.

The UNCEDO Pottery Project trains unemployed young women and youth to make wonderful pottery works.

VukAfrica is a socially consious, self empowering, cultural tour company, located in the Valley of 1000 Hills, on the western outskirts of Durban.

Based in Cape Town, Streetwires is a business with a social mission that is tackling the problems of unemployment and poverty in South Africa.

The Philani Weaving Project is part of the Philani Nutrition and Development Project, based in Kayelitsha, Western Cape.  

The Endangered Species Centre & Kapama Cheetah Breeding Project, are located in Hoedspruit near Kruger National Park.

The Threatened Species Project is based in Swaziland the 60,000 ha Lubombo Conservancy which contains lion, rhino, elephant, leopard, giraffe and a whole host of other big game.

Beautiful Gate has centres located in Muizenberg and Cross Roads; suburbs near Cape Town. 

Mdantsane Arts Centre is located in Mdantsane, a suburb near East London, Eastern Cape.

The Normandy project is a special psycholgy project, situated in the little village of Normandy, Limpopo.

This cooperative of small-scale rooibos farners in the Northern Cape, produce and market a fine quality, organic and fairtrade certified rooibos tea.   
Hop on and enjoy a donkey cart ride to explore the area and have a picnic on one of the farms along the way. De Rust, situated near Route 62, the longest wine route in the world!

The women’s project Penduka alone is a good enough reason for a visit to Katutura, the typically African suburb of the capital city, Windhoek in Namibia. 

The Christine Revell Children’s Home, running since September 1975, is based in Athlone, a suburb 5 minutes drive from Cape Town City Bowl, Western Cape.
Masibonisane Day Care Centre is located in Ngxingxolo Village, near East Londen in the Eastern Cape.

Thušanang  is a capacity building Non Profit Organisation, working in the deep rural areas of Limpopo (Northern Province) within a 100km radius of Haenertsburg.

Madi a Thavha, meaning “water from the mountains”, is a mountain farm, situated in the Soutpansberg mountains in the Limpopo province.
 
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