Corporate Social Review Magazine 1st Quarter 2013 | Page 77

Winners of the inaugural NLB Awards Social Champions Social Champions Arts, Culture & National Heritage Sector Amos/Kgaphamadi Community Organisation Eco-Access Gauteng Dance Manyano AMOS/KGAPHAMADI COMMUNITY ORGANISATION Physical Address: Stand No. 478, Ezakheni, kwaMhlanga, Nkangala Region in Mpumalanga. PO Box 1076, Silverton, 0127 E-mail: [email protected] This organisation was established on the 1st of January 1995 with the aim of upgrading and developing the people of Ezakheni Village and other close by settlements surrounding it such as Phola, Mandela, Sun City, Kwaggafontein, Kameelrivier and Mountain View IGUGU LAKWETHU CULTURAL FESTIVAL PROJECT The overall goal of this project is the development and enrichment of the Ezakheni people and neighbouring communities The more particular goal is to provide unemployed youths with skills, training, empowerment, manufacturing and marketing for job opportunities for the local and nearby communities. Gauteng Dance Manyano is going to keep on striving to be the voice of grassroots dance organisations in Gauteng. Our strength is nurturing the hidden dance talent in rural locations In our 12th year anniversary we keep on dancing for the transformation of South African dance forms. Led by M.D. Njabulo Jimmy Notuka, the GDM team continues to work with dedication, transparency accountability beyond thecall of duty. CORPORATE SOCIAL REVIEW Magazine Final.indd 75 Eco-Access champions the rights of people with disability to access the natural environment. The Organization combines this with a focus on addressing the high levels of disempowerment and segregation experienced by persons with Visual, Hearing, Physical and Intellectual impairment. Eco-Access’s ultimate objective is to use the natural environment as medium to empower both able bodied and persons with disability allowing them to participate in an interactive learning process called “Twinning model”. OUR VISION: People with disabilities are fully included, participative members of healthy communities. Programmes & Services include: DIVERSITY CHALLENGES CORPORATE TRAINING TWINNING CAMPS OR OUTINGS VOLUNTEER TRAINING 75 2013/07/29 10:47 AM