“The journey of empowerment starts with us
Stimulating a passion for learning and the growth of skills, Afrika Tikkun inspires youth in South Africa to reach their true potential. Our interventions help to build sustainable communities where diversity, equality and families thrive.
Join us as we work to overcome the interconnected challenges of unemployment, poverty and educational and social inequalities.
Afrika Tikkun, where development means empowerment.
Afrika Tikkun is your partner in transformative development. We grow, nurture and establish young lives from cradle to career with sustainable opportunities that really do matter. Our focus is to empower young people through trusted partner contributions – and our promise is to nourish our partnerships for the greater well being of our young people. We believe in kindness. We believe in impact. We believe in true empowerment.
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Your support can uplift our youth
Every child and youth has the right to a better life. Your partnership supports our mission of combating poor living and education standards. Your contribution provides access to mentorship, advanced schooling facilities, clean and healthy living environments and career opportunities. Afrika Tikkun places youth development at the centre of our service, offering Cradle to Career developmental programmes and our fully integrated 360º Social Services programme. Together, we can impact lives.
Over 100 000 youth impacted and 15 000 youth accessing Afrika Tikkun centres each year
8419 Young people reached
3359 Families supported
71 000 Emergency & Covid-19 relief food parcels delivered
1319 youth placed
99 Bursaries awarded
3132 Youth trained in demand driven skills and 1790 equipped with work readiness skills
1598 Placed in employment and 412 in learnerships
5000 Youth in Alumni network
How you can get involved
Corporate sponsorship
We partner with businesses that choose to matter. Whether you’re an SME or large corporate, you can choose to donate funds to the value of your choice and support any one of our Afrika Tikkun Core and 360º programmes or any of our public campaign initiatives.
Fundraise
We help build your CSI status. As a business, fundraisers are an impactful way to build your corporate responsibility status, your industry reputation and your community upliftment. Afrika Tikkun invites you to access our collaborative fundraising opportunities through our GoFundMe channel. Your fundraising initiative extensively supports our youth development programmes while benefiting your company BEE status and Tax benefits.
Lead a campaign
Want to build your own kindness campaign? Let us partner with you from start to finish and support your unique public initiative with a customised campaign, engineered on our platform and branded by you. Leave the fuss to us while we collaborate with your ideas, guide you effectively and handle all the logistics.
Sindi's story
Sindi age 5 – a beautiful little girl who lives with her mother and 3 other siblings near Afrika Tikkun’s Mfuleni centre. Little Sindi was diagnosed with a lung condition that requires her to use a breathing aid 24/7. When Sindi joined our Afrika Tikkun ECD programme, our Empowerment Case Administrators encouraged her family to join the support group for parents of children with disabilities.
Some legacies are built on a Tuesday
A story forged on a Tuesday. That’s how it started. Two visionaries after the same rainbow – Nelson Mandela and Bertie Lubner, founder of Afrika Tikkun – met on the second Tuesday of every other month to discuss the love they both shared for their country, South Africa. What transpired was a deep seated friendship,
