Who are you trying to help? What issue are you trying to address?

Our organisation, OSCAR (Outreach Social Care project), is a grassroots NGO in KwaZulu Natal that promotes sustainable livelihoods, life skills development, leadership training, and education for children, young people and adults in townships and rural areas. We also work in HIV/AIDS prevention.

We train, equip, encourage and release children and young people into the community when they have reached their full potential.

The OSCAR project offers school, family and community based approaches to meeting the complex needs and challenges faced by different groups of beneficiaries in the Pietermaritzburg area.

The greater part of our work has focused on community outreach, targeting rural areas and townships.

Each year we continue to advance our mission of serving the disadvantaged and underprivileged people in KwaZulu Natal. We have seen many lives changed for the better.

What is your project and how will it help?

The OSCAR Project works at the coalface of community development, surviving on tiny budgets, but making a large impact. We do the most astonishing things and brave work and are addressing the very tough and uncomfortable social ills we face daily. However, we do it with extraordinary pride and dedication.

How can other people partner with you on your project?

By providing financial assistance, skills (volunteers) and/or various items we need.

Please contact us for further information on our current needs and how you can partner with our organisation.

Please detail the resources that you need.

Financial Assistance: money is required to fund volunteers. stipends, running costs, training programmes, school requirements (fees, uniforms and stationery for orphans and child -headed households)

Skills: volunteers can provide a range of skills and resources that would otherwise not be affordable to the Outreach Social Care Project-OSCAR

Items: Items in working order (computers, laptops, cameras, stationery)