Together we strengthen families caring for orphans and other vulnerable children

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Founded in 1989, Thandanani Children’s Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation that facilitates community-based care and support for orphans and other vulnerable children (particularly those affected and infected by HIV/Aids) in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands of South Africa. Enshrine Placements is a proud supporter and together with Thandanani we would like to extend a huge “Thank You!” to Tenova South Africa. During the course of 2016 Enshrine placed Mauritz Visagie as Senior Project Read more...

Creating Jobs Through Honey Production

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For you, for me, for nature, for humanity:this is our business credo at Enshrine, and it is our heartfelt desire to bring these words to life and contribute in meaningful ways to really making a difference.In order to transform words into acts that foster sustainability, economic development and gainful employ for the people of Africa, we have embraced playing the role of broker for initiatives we feel have both their hearts and minds in the right place. Our agreement with clients is that we pass Read more...

How we do business is what really counts

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Thermaspray isn’t just about coatings, it’s about substance It may well be that the key to creating social change and correcting imbalances in the distribution of health, wealth and prosperity for all, is less a matter of changing what we do, but changing how we do it.  Instead of thinking we need to change the way we do business all at once – which can tend to overwhelm us – it is often a matter of changing one small thing at a time, and so doing what we can; incrementally.  The Read more...

Open Africa

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Enterprise Investment partners One of the Enterprise Investment partners we currently support is Open Africa, an inspirational and award-winning social enterprise founded under the patronage of late state president, Nelson Mandela. Open Africa envisions a different world where authentic and unexpected experiences for travellers translate into opportunity for rural people. Open Africa meets the need for job creation, small business development and rural development in rural areas across Southern Read more...

Thandanani

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Thandanani is another initiative we are privileged to support; it is an orphanage which is run as a non-profit organisation by a small but highly dedicated team of supporters.  Thandanani means “love each other”; a name that eloquently captures the humanitarian intent behind this life-changing enterprise which provides assistance to orphans and other disadvantaged children from selected homes; many of whom are infected and affected by AIDS or abuse. The children at the centre are given food Read more...

Powering Up Emerging Enterprises

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Powering Up Emerging Enterprises Posted by Caryn on July 29, 2011 in News One of the greatest needs amongst emerging businesses in South Africa is capacity building and connecting to a market, to ensure their success and long term sustainability. And emerging enterprises are one of the greatest needs South Africa has right now, as high unemployment figures and job creation take centre stage. Open Africa is responding to this need amongst the 2 600 enterprises in its network of 62 travel Read more...

Adding to the Treasure Trove

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Adding to the Treasure Trove Posted by John on May 14, 2011 in News Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere (Chinese Proverb) When we create the right conditions for learning to take place it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: we learn how to learn and then … we can learn anything.  The future of South Africa and its colourful people will, to a large extent, be determined by the quality of learning we pass on to our children.  If we can improve the education even Read more...