Community Upliftment

Work Parties

Pledge your skills, volunteer with us, build, bake, paint it forward or invest some sweat capital for greater good. We invite families, corporate teams and just about anyone that could help us transform buildings, gardens and facilities in schools, day-care centres by improving or creating infrastructure for quality of education, life and dignity.

We are needful of Professional skills here! Volunteers; pledge your skills!

Could you tick any of these boxes please?

Arts teacher for TIQWA School for special needs children – once a week
Computer skills teacher – once a week
Doctors, optometrists, dentists – perhaps a Saturday a month?
Financial professionals – help manage budgets and grants
Builders, plumbers, bakers, clowns, cookie-cutters, entertainers, cupcake donors.. etc.

Ransom Foundation holds a large portfolio of projects initiated and delivered in collaboration with awesome partners, serving our beneficiaries one entity at a time!

TIQWA School

TIQWA, based in Pretoria East, is an independent school for learners with special educational needs. However, the school does not receive a subsidy from the Department. TIQWA is a registered non-profit organisation and has also been granted tax exemption by SARS. There are on average 20 learners in the school representative of the demographics of the country.

The school specialises in therapeutic tuition for children with learning disabilities and brain dysfunction. Many children are learning disabled and are unable to progress in special and remedial classes and without TIQWA would be considered in educable. Ransom Foundation helps with attracting sponsorship for children, fundraising and like to show up for the occasional Christmas party. We have planted a vegetable garden and the learners are tending to it daily, even taking some of the oversupply of vegetables home.

Skuinskloof Primary School

Skuinskloof School is situated in Nylstroom / Lephalale. The First United Methodist Church (FUMC) from Texas in America adopted the school in 2013 to assist with the infrastructure development and the educational development of the children.

The school was built on a farm to assist the children of the farm workers in the surrounding areas, to ensure that they get education. We received news that a nearby school have closed down and expect a total number of 300 children to be placed.

We joined forces to support the operation. We have built 3 homes and a school. In an ambitious plan going forward, we have set out a project plan to continue extending the built area in 2021.

Lesedi Secondary School

Situated in Donkerhoek, Pretoria, accommodating 1079 students of whom 590 girls and 489 boys. There are 35 members of staff and we can testify that this institution is well run, against all odds!
Matric Pass Rate – 2015: 85.71%, 2016: 84.7%, 2017:84,5%,2018: 94,32%, 2019: 98,11%.

The major issue here is water and with that go sanitary problems. They receive water once a month ‘if and when’ water authorities distribute. We restore the dignity of young girls by distribution of sanitary towels. Many girls in Africa miss 3-5 days of school each month because they cannot afford sanitary pads.

Maswikane Day Care

On the occasion of celebrating Mandela day, we went to town with painting, creating murals, installing a jungle gym and building a racetrack with new tyres at the Maswikane Day Care Centre, our Early Childhood Development project in Mamelodi, Pretoria.

Phomolong Community

A makeshift, informal shack settlement in the west of Mamelodi, Pretoria. We are challenged with issues of drug abuse, human trafficking and severe poverty. Since the social system is based on a honour – shame culture, people do not freely talk about the fear and lack of dignity they live with. Ransom has built precious relationships within this community, offering friendship, mentorship and support. We distribute sanitary towels, food parcels and clothing, hoping to do more in the very near future, however, we need resources. Our female entrepreneur got a kick start for her microbusiness selling peanuts. We incubated her initiative by providing her with skills and a market to sell. She can now feed and look after her family as she is the sole provider.

Njabulo Day Care Centre

Owned and operated by Mama Betty Cele at her residential premises, Njabulo is an orphanage and day care centre situated at the Far East of Mamelodi in an area called Alaska and home to 60 children. During lock down, the centre has no income and the kids residing with Betty find themselves in dire need.

The children’s ages range from 6 months – 6 years. Alaska is an informal settlement that is affected by poverty, unemployment, women and children abuse, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.

The majority of working females in the area are employed as domestic workers and about small percentage work in retail industry while the rest unfortunately unemployed.

Njabulo is one of our longstanding beneficiaries. We have created infrastructure, crating spaces, painted, installed toilets, planted food gardens and been actively feeding the little ones, kitting them out with clothes, stationery including a few Christmas surprises with sponsors.

Lodewyk Old Age Home Eersterust

While Lodewyk is not one of our primary beneficiaries, we could not help but lend a hand. The home was established and built in l984, now housing 40 males and 40 females. This home for the elderly falls short of very basic foodstuff and we have been reaching out with our ‘Fill-a-bags’ encouraging one granny at a time.

Cyclone Idai Mozambique

A disaster relief initiative, we collected sanitary towels, food and clothing from our local community and churches. Our crowdsourcing method were wonderfully supported. Goods were sent to the Methodist church in Nelspruit, there after delivered in Mozambique.