The ABAX Investments Milkwood Run organised by Harfield Harriers supports a number of Charities.
Please consider giving them a small donation when you enter.
HopeTown is an existing NPO (Section 18A status) with credibility and traction in Ocean View, our nearest community. HopeTown works with young people at risk, that come from very challenging and often traumatic backgrounds. Aside of a bubbling youth centre reaching 150 kids and teens every week, HopeTown run various programs within the community of Ocean View. The goal being to take young people off the street and invite them into a meaningful community. HopeTown also runs a small school for drop-outs in the community (HopeTown Academy) and a community house (Eden House), where young people that come out of violent and turbulent homes live together and learn habits of healthy living over a period of 1-3 years.
HopeTown has also established a 3 step internship program for young unemployed youth coming from Ocean View. This is a holistic training which focuses on self-management, stability in life, skills training, job readiness and integrity. The main training centre is in Ocean View with a second training hub on Imhoff farm. HopeTown creates beautiful products in their skills trainings and they are sold through their social business in Imhoff farm shop but also in different shops in Cape Town that support the self sustainability of the organisation. HopeTown is dedicated to changing lives in Ocean View in a way that is self-empowering for the young people and supports them in creating a life with passion and purpose.
The Volunteer Wildfire Services (VWS) has been on the front line, combating dangerous and sometimes deadly runaway wildfires since its inception during the devastating fires that ravaged Cape Town in 1999/2000. With a force of more than 350 volunteers, with women making up 34% of our volunteers, who operate from our four stations, Newlands, South Peninsula, Stellenbosch, and Helderberg. VWS is the largest volunteer firefighting organisation in South Africa. VWS stands tall as a powerful non-profit organization, driven by a team of fiercely passionate volunteers, and led by our fearless CEO, Claire Lötter.
In the face of some of the most ferocious fires Cape Town and the Western Cape have ever seen, our relentless team of highly trained ground crews work together with other emergency service organisations to protect lives and homesteads. Thanks to our unwavering commitment, VWS has recorded over 100,000 active firefighting hours between its members and stations, showing that nothing can stand in our way when it comes to protecting our beloved communities and natural landscapes.
As we see our fire season's lengthening and the frequency of wildfires increasing; we are more committed to serving our communities and continuing our goals of educating and promoting “good fire”, saving and protecting South Africa's natural heritage, property, lives, and precious mountain water catchment areas.
