Delivering Our Services

We work with committed staff and community participants who help us drive change and provide hope.

Community participants

Community caregivers are the driving force behind delivering our programmes. They come together in local community forums to share experiences and solutions. This is the network of dedicated and selfless modern-day mamas and tatas who champion social development within the communities we serve.

Community participants include foster parents, neighbours, teachers, grandparents, guardians and their community forums play a critical role in our organisation.  Small area forums gather regularly, and all members have the opportunity to convene monthly at larger forum meetings.  Here members voice the challenges their communities face, share insights and solutions and bring specific community needs to our attention.

Many of the founding mamas of Ikamva Labantu still serve on community forums today, and while they are formal, independent organisations, they are supported by Ikamva Labantu.  We provide governance and leadership training, workshops, premises and facilities for meetings, and we actively participate and consult as needed around programme development.

Community development centres

Ikamva Labantu’s centres, which we have established over the years, act as hubs out of which our programmes are co-ordinated and the people we help can access our services.  They’re also places where people can go – environments of safety, comfort and learning, where adults, children and seniors can gather.

Our staff

Ikamva Labantu staff includes social workers, educators, occupational therapists, speech therapists, psychologists, community fieldworkers, nurses, managers – and of course, volunteers.  These dedicated and experienced individuals manage our services and implement our programmes hand-in-hand with our community participants.

Read more about the role of community.