Featured Funder's Corner
How your funding changes lives...Government Partners
Department of Health
The Department of Health (South Africa) partnership spans many years with the intention of implementation of HIV youth prevention interventions, including peer educators through Ground Breakers and Mphinthi’s and the live Chat Groups to facilitate dialogues and information sharing among youth.
Department of Sports, Arts & Culture
The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture collaboration with LoveLife is in accordance with the District Development Model (DDM) throughout all the nine provinces. The partnership with the department allows loveLife messaging to be shared at sport and recreation events, thereby allowing loveLife access to a large audience of young people due to the popularity of sport events – but also, it allows for sport to play an important role in social change and youth leadership development.
Corporate Sponsors
ACWA Power
loveLife launched a new YCenter in the Northern Cape, a project funded by ACWA Power Solafrica Bokpoort Concentrated Solar Plant based outside Groblershoop. The! Kheis Local Municipality donated land to loveLife for the construction of the Y Centre. The construct of the Y Centre is part of a long term Social Economic Development Strategy by ACWA Power Solafrica Bokpoort CSP as part of their CSI to address specific social economic challenges in the community of !Kheis.
Anglo American
Kumba Iron Ore - Sishen MineAnglo-American’s three global pillars of Thriving Communities, Trusted Corporate Leader and Healthy Environment – have been the main thrust in partnering with loveLife in various initiatives ranging from youth centres, recreational parks, cultural and learning centers. In tandem, their generosity has enhanced and accelerated the provision of comprehensive HIV/Aids services in government clinics in partnership with loveLife.
KURISANI
Boshoff, Southpan Solar Power & WitkopKurisani Youth Development Trust continued partnership to build and sustain the Bochum community together with local youth and a number of key stakeholders, including the Mayor of Blouberg Municipality, officially launched the Love Life Youth Services Centre.
Otraco Southern Africa (Pty) Ltd
Otraco remains a valued and appreciated partner funder of loveLife!
Volkswagen
(South Africa)Volkswagen Group South Africa (VWSA) continues to be a valued partener funder of the loveLife Youth Centre in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage was unveiled on Friday, 30 November 2012.The KwaNobuhle loveLife Y-Centre opening coincided with World Aids Day on 1 December. The aim of the centre is to give the young people of KwaNobuhle and the greater Uitenhage area a safe haven where they can play sport and interact with their peers and adults, thereby developing long term supportive relationships.
Foundations, Funds & Trust Funders
Sishen Iron Ore Corporation
Community Development TrustThe beneficiary communities around the Sishen Iron Ore Company operations are located in some of the most underdeveloped regions of South Africa.
They range from urban and rural settlements with vast distances between each location. This increases the difficulty in creating sustainable opportunities to ensure valuable contribution to the upliftment of these communities.
Terre Des Hommes Schweiz
Terre Des Hommes protects the world’s most vulnerable children, particularly those exposed to the risks of migration, subject to exploitation and in conflict with the law.
Old Mutual Foundation
(South Africa)At Old Mutual we’re committed to creating the kind of change that has a positive, sustainable impact across South Africa. The aim of the Foundation is to empower people and communities through skills development, education, socio-economic transformation and job creation.
Our aim is to integrate marginalised South Africans into the mainstream economy by providing skills training, jobs and empowering young people through education.
United Nations Population Fund
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) delivers a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe, every young person’s potential is fulfilled.
UNFPA partners with governments, other agencies and civil society to advance its mission.
UNICEF
UNICEF, originally called the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children’s Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.