INTRODUCTION
 In late summer 2005, Respond Housing Association was invited to South Africa by the Diocese of Kokstad to assist them in developing supports and services for those in need in its area. In order to carry out its work in South Africa, Respond! Housing Association, Ireland, established Sivile Housing Association RSA in December 2008. Sivile Housing Association [registration number 2008/028732/08] is an association incorporated under Section 21 of the Companies Act 1973. PBO Exemption No 930 033 686]
Since 2005 we have been working with Provincial and Local Government, the local community, specialist consultants and Respond! Housing Association staff based in South Africa. We have focussed our building, training and development work on delivering much needed services to the communities we are involved with. Central to all our work in South Africa is the objective of sustainability. So far we have donated some €4 million Euro or nearly 40 Million Rand in our South African Projects in the Kwa Zulu Natal and Eastern Cape areas.
VISION:
Sivile’s vision is to facilitate social development activity focused on the poor and needy communities
MISSION :
Sivile aims at equipping the learners to reach full potential by encouraging life learning through delivering quality and relevant programms which will serve for further education and training to compete in the labour market.
Our work is guided by the following principles:
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Focus on the potential of each individual
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Working with and in disadvantaged communities
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Fostering international development cooperation between Ireland and South Africa
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Facilitating organisational capacity building within South African community development organisations through targeted interventions
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Collaborating with state, civil society and private companies
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Undertaking innovative development projects to demonstrate alternative models of development.
 OVERALL STRATEGY:
Sivile overall strategy is based on implementing and managing development programmes, to an approach premised on assisting to capacitate South African-based and resourced organisations to undertake these development projects. This ensures programmes and projects are financially and organizationally sustainable in the long term, and reduce Sivile’s long-term exposure to these programmes.
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Sivile Housing Association's board of Directors: |
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Mr Owen James Peters: |
Chairman |
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Fr Robert Vincent Bwete : |
Respond! Housing Association, Ireland |
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Rite Rev Bshop Zolile Petros Mpambani : |
Respond! |
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Mr Martin Brand : |
Respond! |
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Mr Shannon Jacob Peters : |
Respond! |
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Mr Brenden James Marnce: |
Respond & Sivile |
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Sr Flora Bless: |
Respond! |
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Mr Parag Joglekar: |
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Sivile Management and Staff:
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Teresa Olivier |
Chief Executive Officer and Public Officer |
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Nandipha Magqashela: |
Programme Co-Ordininator |
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Lumka Gcorha |
End User Facilitator |
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Sr Flora Bless |
Professional Nurse |
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History |
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Sivile was registered on the 08 December 2008. In September 2015 Sivile registered as an NPO and PBO (date on NPO certificate) 1 September 2015. Sivile is strategically located on the periphery of the town in a low cost, government funded housing settlement called Shayamoya, surrounding this are Bhongweni, Bhambayi, Horse Shoe Mpela & Zolani (these are also low Cost Housing developments but also include large areas of informal, shack house) the informal settlement houses which consists of approximately 5 thousand housing units each measuring twenty five square meters in dimension & home to poor families averaging seven members in each household. This forms part of the Greater Kokstad Municipality. The Greater Kokstad Municipality functions as the District node & is the dominant commercial centre in the Harry Gwala District. Due to poverty, unemployment & HIV / AIDS there is a large burden for women & children to carry. There are 19 140 households in the Greater Kokstad Municipality with a total population of 56 528. The largest portion of the population is presented by the Black African racial group (87%), following by Colored racial group at 8% & then a relatively small group of Whites & Indians / Asians (1%). |
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