Refilwe

The Refilwe project logo.

Refilwe (Community Project) (We are given) is a township near Lanseria Airport, north of Johannesburg in Gauteng Province, South Africa. It was established in 1991 when Jean Stewart and Yvonne Jaques started primary health treatment in the corner of a small hall in the Drummond settlement, Lanseria. It was at this point that the Refilwe Community Project was born and has since grown into the current project attempting to address the diverse needs of the area surrounding the project.

The church of St. Michael and All Angels in Newton, West Kirby, Wirral, England has an extensive link with the project and regularly sends parishioners to help with the project.

The director and staff support missionaries that come to Refilwe to help the poor and young. Charitable donations are always welcome, but it's difficult to know if funds will be sufficient for any given year. A new venture the director has begun is an effort to make Refilwe Community Project more self-sufficient: "Refelwe Enterprises" . The goal is to "Break the CYCLE of Poverty through the CYCLE of Nature". By growing crops, raising worms and building furniture (among other activities), they are helping to fund the communities needs.

Links

• Refilwe project site

External Links

• [1] RSS Food For Friends campaign, support for Refilwe
• [2] The Barn Christian Fellowship support for Refilwe
• [3] Blackabuddy, simple, speedy solution to donating and raising money for charity: Refilwe Reference
• [4] GlobalGiving Organization: Build a new life for orphans in South Africa: Refilwe Comm. Project
• [5] Refilwe on Facebook
• [6] Rotary Club of Amwell: Refilwe support
• [7] BDO is a world wide network of public accounting firms, and has adopted the Refilwe Community Project as one of its social responsibility programmes.
• [8] Serving In Mission (SIM)is an international mission organization with more than 1,600 active missionaries serving in more than 50 countries. This is their Refilwe Community Project link.
• [9] Prodder Directory: South Africa’s most comprehensive directory of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisation) and development organisations: Refilwe Community Project link.\
• [10] Mission Sebenzela: "Child Sponsorship: Refilwe Community Project operates a children's shelter for orphan and vulnerable children in a rural area of Johannesburg."

Refilwe means "we are given" in Sesotho. The English translation for "we are blessed" is "re hlohonolofaditswe" or "re lehlohonolo".

References

1. CharitySA is site listing South African non-profit organizations “The Refilwe Community Project was formed in 1991 and is a multi-focused registered Non Profit and Public Benefit Organisation serving the communities of Lanseria, north of Johannesburg.” (http://www.charitysa.co.za/) and represents this organizations efforts to increase awareness to the needs of the SA country. They have a Database of Organisations, Refilwe Community Project is listed here: http://www.charitysa.co.za/refilwe-community-project.html

2. Impendulo - The Answer : Your Quarterly Guide to Corporate Social Investment 'The Refilwe Community Project was formed in 1991 and is a multi-focused registered Non Profit and Public Benefit Organisation serving the communities of Lanseria, north of Johannesburg.'(http://www.siyakha.co.za/wp-content/uploads/newsletters/issue2.pdf) News (Volume 1 Issue 2 - August 2009)

3. Santa Visits Refilwe Continuity Chronicles Newsletter for ContinuitySA. Feb, 2006. (http://www.continuitysa.co.za/files/eChronicles.pdf)