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Our mission is to promote a better quality of life by offering psychosocial support to children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS, including those who are orphaned or made vulnerable by poverty, neglect, or abuse in the community of Refilwe, Tshwane.

Background & Context: The Johannesburg Children's Home (JCH), established in 1892, is Gauteng's oldest residential care facility for children. For 133 years, we have provided a safe, nurturing environment for children aged 3 to 21 who have experienced severe trauma-ranging from abuse to abandonment. Our holistic care model includes education, emotional support, and therapeutic services within a cluster-style village environment. Motivation for Innovation: Healing the emotional wounds of 64 traumatised children and preparing them for independent life is a significant and complex challenge. Many arrive at JCH with disrupted schooling, developmental delays, and deeply rooted trauma. Our goal is to ensure that when they leave our care, they do so as resilient, capable individuals with the emotional, academic, and practical skills to thrive in society. To achieve this, traditional models of care and education are no longer sufficient-we must innovate. Why This Innovation Is Needed: Youth aging out of residential care often struggle with employability, self-esteem, and independence. Many lack access to targeted psychosocial support and real-world learning pathways. The need for structured life skills, mentorship, digital readiness, and career alignment is critical to break the cycle of vulnerability. What Makes Our Approach Different: Therapeutic Life Readiness Programme: We integrate emotional healing with practical skill development through trauma-informed life skills training, digital literacy, and mentorship. Tailored Pathways for Youth (15-21): Each young person receives an individualised development plan that includes tutoring, vocational exposure, and transition support. Multi-disciplinary Model: Social workers, youth workers, educators, and therapists collaborate to offer consistent, wraparound support. Safe-to-Independent Pipeline: We are building structured pathways from residential care to semi-independent living and employment, with mentorship and aftercare. Experience in the Field: JCH brings over 133 years of experience in residential childcare and child protection. Over the past decade, we have significantly advanced our psychosocial and education support offerings. We have strong partnerships with schools, training providers, and community organisations, ensuring a well-integrated support network for our youth. Proposed Location for Implementation: The innovation will be implemented at The Johannesburg Children's Home (JCH), located in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. As a long-established residential facility, JCH provides a stable and secure environment for vulnerable children and youth in the heart of the city. Targeted Demographics: The programme specifically targets youth aged 15 to 21 years, currently in care at JCH or transitioning out of care. These young people have experienced severe trauma-such as abuse, neglect, and abandonment-and require structured support to develop life, educational, and employment skills. Youth Pathway: Our innovation directly engages young people through a Therapeutic Life Readiness Programme designed to support them in three core areas: 1. Emotional resilience: Trauma-informed therapy and peer support groups. 2. Educational recovery and upskilling: Individualised tutoring, digital literacy training, and vocational guidance. 3. Transition to independence: Mentorship, job shadowing, internships, and preparation for semi-independent living. Each youth follows a personalised development plan supported by our multidisciplinary team, ensuring that their voices, goals, and growth are central to the process. Relationship with the Community: JCH has deep, long-standing ties with the Johannesburg community, including schools, mental health professionals, NGOs, and local businesses. We have served hundreds of children from surrounding communities over the past 133 years and work closely with government departments, families, and community partners to ensure holistic, culturally sensitive care. Our approach is grounded in trust, transparency, and consistent engagement with stakeholders. Experience in Continuous Learning, Innovation, Sustainable Impact, and Systemic Change: Continuous Learning: Our team undergoes regular training in trauma-informed care, child development, and youth empowerment. We constantly evaluate our programmes to ensure relevance and effectiveness. Innovation: We are evolving from traditional residential care to a proactive youth development model that integrates mental health, education, and employability-tailored for post-care independence. Sustainable Impact: By equipping youth with essential life and vocational skills, we reduce their long-term reliance on social systems and increase their ability to contribute meaningfully to society. Systemic Change: Our work challenges and redefines how child and youth care is delivered in South Africa, shifting from custodial care to development-focused models that empower youth as agents of their own future.

To empower communities, especially women and youth, to grow food, improve nutrition, and build sustainable livelihoods through accessible, education-based gardening solutions. We work to combat food insecurity by making gardening simple, dignified, and scalable. We promote agricultural education through school and household-based programs. Thereafter, we create pathways to income generation through community training, mentorship, and micro-enterprise support.

Our Vision is to contribute to a world where communities thrive, empowered with the resources and support necessary to achieve optimum well-being and a better quality of life. Our mission is to drive health and social transformation by implementing community-based programs that empower families, strengthen resilience, and promote the sexual and reproductive health and rights of adolescents and youth.

TO SUPPORT OUR LEARNERS THROUGH QUALITY TEACHING, LEARNING, PSYCHOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT.

OUR MISSION We're on a mission to drive tangible environmental restoration and inspire collective action for a thriving planet. Our work is diverse. We provide technical and financial support for reforestation and urban greening projects. We craft creative eco-education curriculums and awareness campaigns. We run engaging nature-based events and experiences. From getting our hands dirty running local projects to consulting for global organisations, we turn ideas into impact. Greenpop was founded in 2010 and has since worked across Sub-Saharan Africa and empowered thousands of people around the world to get active (not anxious) about the future of our planet. Optimistic Environmentalism - Our Guiding Philosophy: At Greenpop, we believe in tackling environmental challenges with a mindset of hope, creativity, and tangible impact. Our work is deeply rooted in the powerful theoretical framework of Optimistic Environmentalism. This philosophy isn't just an idea; it guides every project, every partnership, and every decision we make, shaping how we contribute to a thriving planet. We interpret this framework through four primary stances: Pro-Nature We champion the conservation and restoration of nature because it holds inherent value and is absolutely essential for a habitable planet. Our projects are designed to heal and enhance ecosystems, recognising nature's vital role in our collective well-being and the balance of life on Earth. Pro-People We are committed to ensuring equality of access to nature and its benefits for all people, both today and for future generations. Creating a just world means prioritising communities, empowering diverse voices, and ensuring environmental solutions genuinely uplift and benefit everyone, especially marginalised groups. Pro-Innovation We embrace creativity, new technology, and innovative design as crucial tools for solving complex environmental challenges. We constantly seek smarter, more effective ways to make a lasting positive impact, fostering a culture of continuous learning, adaptation, and bold thinking. Pro-Action We believe that swift, meaningful environmental action is essential, not just in policy or grand initiatives, but in every sphere - personal, economic, and legislative. We activate individuals and communities to become active participants, turning concern into tangible positive change and inspiring widespread joyful engagement. These four stances form the bedrock of Greenpop's approach, demonstrating our belief that a sustainable future is not only possible but achievable through an empowered, connected, and proactive humanity. It's the philosophy that fuels our mission to drive tangible environmental restoration and inspire collective action for a thriving planet.

Provide a superior early childhood development opportunity, in poorer communities; so that the children attending Ubunye will graduate with the skills necessary to excel in their future education.

Al Baaz Al Ashab's primary mission is to alleviate hunger and poverty by directly distributing food items and relief packages to lower income households so that they can focus on livelihood promotion goals. We aim to accomplish this by mobilizing available resources efficiently combined with voluntary community engagement. How we mobilize our resources efficiently is by buying raw materials in large quantities at wholesale prices thereby taking advantages of economies of scale, in addition to relying on our generous donors for supplies. We then create employment by hiring our own staff to make large quantities of the food and we then distribute it for free. What this does is it allows us to get the most out of our rand as we possibly can. Using this strategy, we distribute cooked meals 6 days a week. In conclusion, our mission is to lead the fight against hunger in Ladysmith by feeding the poor and adding value to society.

Zahana in Madagascar is dedicated to participatory rural development, education, revitalization of traditional Malagasy medicine, reforestation, and sustainable agriculture. It is Zahana's philosophy that participatory development must be based on local needs and solutions proposed by local people. It means asking communities what they need and working with them collaboratively so they can achieve their goals. Each community's own needs are unique and require a tailor -made response

Our Mission: Missionvale Care Centre is an interdenominational, non-profit organization committed to providing quality care and support to improve the lives of the people of Missionvale through love, consultation, participation and self-development. We respond to the many needs of the people in the circumstances in which they live. Our Vision: To enter into the lives of the poor in their pain, loneliness and despair. To recognise that we have done nothing to deserve our prosperity, as they have done nothing to deserve their deprivation. To reach out a hand of solidarity, compassion and love, filled not with empty platitudes, but with food, medicine, learning and hope. To learn from the sick and the vulnerable, the great lessons of humility and simplicity. To learn from ourselves the limits of our charity and the boundaries of our selflessness. To know and believe that a Care Centre, within our city and within our hearts, is only the beginning, but a beginning where anything is possible. Our Objectives: To provide an essential health, social and spiritual service. To provide primary and pre-primary school education and other forms of educational development. To promote a stable and harmonious home and community environment. To develop a sense of pride and ownership in the people of Missionvale. To concentrate on the development of children, especially those orphaned and vulnerable. To use all the resources of the Care Centre to treat, alleviate and most importantly, prevent the scourge of HIV/AIDS. To consolidate the achievements of the last 24 years by becoming self-sustaining.

Oxfam is a global movement of people who share the belief that, in a world rich in resources, poverty isn't inevitable. It's an injustice which can, and must, be overcome. We're dedicated to building a just and safer world focusing on people's rights. We're passionate about ending poverty and helping to rebuild the lives affected by it. It's an enormous undertaking but we also have people on our side - talented and committed partners, volunteers, supporters and staff who share the same values. We aim to save lives by responding quickly with aid and protection during emergencies, empower people to work their own way out of poverty and campaign for lasting change. We have been saving and changing lives for seventy years now and know that tackling poverty is only possible when we are helping people to secure their fundamental human rights - the right to life and security, the right to a sustainable livelihood, the right to essential services, the right to be heard and the right to equity (in particular, the rights of women). We work at all levels - global and local, with international governments and global institutions, local communities and individuals - to make sure that these rights are protected and that the best solutions to people's suffering are implemented. Our values as an organisation are founded upon our experiences. We know that poverty can only be overcome once the fundamental human rights of impoverished others are secured and our three main values as an organisation - empowerment, accountability, inclusiveness - reflect this. Empowerment - our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen. Accountability - our purpose driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable; we believe that others should also be held accountable for their actions. Inclusiveness - we are open to everyone and embrace diversity; we believe everyone has a contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences.

WAFA's mission is to acknowledge, certify and share sustainable water, air, and food solutions worldwide. At WAF Awards we believe that addressing the world's most acute problems, like ending hunger, preserving clean air and bringing water to every human being, starts with acknowledging people who develop solutions that are proven to work. We strive to identify exceptional pioneers in sustainability initiatives and share their stories across multiple platforms, aiming for global reach. We celebrate them in a magnificent Awards event at a different location each year, giving them the visibility they deserve to inspire change and gather support to scale and replicate their solutions. WAFA's goal is to become a mainstream platform that mobilizes the global public in the selection of Award winners. Together, we bring to light the good deeds in the world and spread a genuine message of hope.