Each month, partners present their work as part of the JICP’s Social Employment Fund programme.
In Round 2 of SEF, the JICP has been working with 10 partners.
Programme Overview: The #PartofMore initiative is a social employment program designed to empower existing NGOs and informal organizations in the Maker’s Valley Community in the eastern part of Johannesburg, specifically in the Bertrams, Judith’s Paarl, Lorentzville, Troyeville, and Bezuidenhout Valley areas. MVP supports activities that encompass all seven reporting themes. A total of 20 organizations and over 300 individuals have received stipends for their change-making activities over the last 18 months.
Locality 1
● 16 Participants: Skills Village, The People’s Pantry, Swyft Labs, Makers Valley Farm.
● SEF theme – Community and Arts, Food Security and Nutrition.
● Activities underway – Facility upkeep, running the soup kitchen, upcycling, farming
● Achievements – New location for The People’s Pantry, began sidewalk tree installation, Youth for Tourism partnership for content creation
Locality 2
● 21 Participants: Hands On Community, Morning Star, Love Our City Clean (LOCK), Balanced Skate
● SEF theme – Community and Arts, Health and Care, Safety and GBV.
● Activities underway – Patrolling and resident support, Elderly Care, Skate
program facilitation, Waste collection and recycling, Placemaking
● Achievements – New location for LOCK, MOU signing with Hofland Park.
Urban Rangers
Locality 3, 11, 14
● 32 Participants: Makers Valley Urban Rangers
● SEF theme – Placemaking, Greening and the Environment.
● Activities underway – Cleaning, Greening (dumping site to garden/farm), community sports, choir, community centre clean ups, community activations.
● Achievements – Upcycling, choir, acting, sports.
Safe Study
Locality 4
● 14 Participants: Safe Study
● SEF theme – Education and ECD
● Activities underway – Educational and recreational program running (Chess, computer literacy, music classes, fashion skills development workshops etc)
● Achievements – continued to support the community youth with after-school program opportunities.
Locality 5
● 28 Participants – Makers Valley Studio, Xquizified, Leratong hub, Quick n Wash, Sobae
● SEF themes – Community and Arts, Greening and the environment, Education and ECD.
● Activities underway – Community programs (Digital literacy, entrepreneurship, Food waste rescue, Water waste awareness, community event facilitation.
● Digital literacy workshop and graduation ceremony with Khurhula Mbetse’s facilitation. Goethe Institute and Engineers without Borders collaboration. BMW support, Project management training with Boston Business College.
Locality 6
● 6 Participants – African Beauty Projects
● SEF theme – Community and Arts
● Activities underway – hosting a Winter Fashion Show that focuses on Pan-African Designs. Whereby Local Designers will be showcasing their Winter Collection, which is more about Networking and Entrepreneurship.
● Outputs: fashion designing workshops to empower individuals in our community to discover their unique design style and potential as designers. Through these workshops, we provided basic development skills and guidance to inspire participants to pursue their passion for fashion design and create their own distinctive designs.
Locality 7
● 14 Participants – Bertrams Resident Movement
● SEF theme: Safety and GBV
● Outputs: Received Patrolling training from SAPS, began patrolling Bertrams North.
Locality 10
● 4 Participants – LOCK
● SEF theme: Greening and the environment, Placemaking
● Activities underway: Recycling, Placemaking, Research
● Outputs: New Location, Focused on placemaking and recycling through Goethe Institute support.
Locality 12
● 4 Participants – Timbuktu In the Valley
● SEF theme: Education and ECD.
● Activities underway: Youth support through educational programs, soup kitchen, recreational programs
● Outputs: Continued program conducting. Beni graduated leadership management program and Olga is undertaking ECD training. Planning kids holidays.
Training
During Round 2 of our programme, we conducted 3 training sessions. We trained our participants on entrepreneurship, waste upcycling, eco-preneurialism, leadership and project management.
● Entrepreneurship and Upcycling – 90 participants
● Leadership and project management – 20 participants
● Ecopreneurship – 50 participants
Participant Experience
● Participant: Rahab Kekana
● Work Done: Cleaning and Greening
● Program opinion –
My name is Rahab Kekana,I stay at Troyville. Since I joined the SEF program last year May, I gained lot of things because I can take care of my kids even though the money I get is little but it’s better than nothing,its really makes a huge different in my family. Also working at Makers Valley as Urban Ranger it’s a very good opportunity for me because at Makers Valley I’m not only cleaning the streets but also developing myself, working as a team
gaining knowledge from each other, the activities we do (dramas and singing) and also sustaining our environment by Re-using ,Recycle and Reducing E.g I make bags and flowers using the plastics and bottles.
The interesting part is that I just realise how good I am in Crocheting . Thank you
● Participant: Fridah Tempe Madibana
● Work Done: Cleaning and Greening
● Program opinion –
-The program has helped me learn responsibility such as paying bills, having money for my own interests or wants, and showing me adulthood -I now feel I am important to the community as we keep the area clean
-It helped me to be a sustainable artist
-It helped me not to be shy to talk to people through door to door engagement
-I gained knowledge through workshops
Community Benefit
● Placemaking improved look of community.
● More residents were able to be assisted (ECD, food security, pre and postnatal care, elderly care etc
● Skills sharing and economic development.
● Stronger community social cohesion.
● Increased support from parastatals
SEF Stakeholders
Supporters:
● Rochas – Assist with petrol for grass cutting machines and assists with providing a van for waste removal.
● Pikitup – Provides us with refuse bags weekly and they support or waste management awareness events and
initiatives.
● TUHF – Additional Capex and Opex support.
● Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development – Provided trees when possible.
