Beneficiaries come from the slum areas around Khayelitsha (population 400’000 / catchment area 1’000’000) affected by violence, poverty, crime, neglect, racism or a lack of formal school education. The consequences especially for children and youth are obvious: drug abuse, shattered families, lack of prospects, over half of the 18-25 year olds are unemployed, poor social structures, no leisure facilities or early pregnancies. These factors all impact on self-esteem, aspirations and work-readiness.
The Academy approaches in a first phase 15 NGOs from the planned 100 NGOs all over South Africa.
SOL’s contribution
Between the years 2017 and 2019, The SOL Foundation assists primarily with the education and work readiness aspects of AMANDLA’s actual work in Khayelitsha reaching out to the beneficiaries on a weekly basis and the implementation of training workshops and programmes for 15 additional Safe-Hub teams and coaches to scale the impact across South Africa and additionally on the strengthening of support structures and team to ensure and maintain high-quality programmes at all sites as well as to constantly innovate the football-based development programmes.