by T@cS_2020 | Apr 8, 2020 | Community Philanthropy, Covid-19, Rural Community Development, Uncategorized
SCAT’s model was tested these last two weeks. Soon after the president declared the state of disaster SCAT was thinking about how to assist grantees to respond to the disaster and prepare their communities for what was coming. The lockdown came quickly and SCAT...
by T@cS_2020 | Feb 18, 2020 | Community Development, Community Philanthropy, Field Practice, Rural Community Development
So the last blog made me reflect on community mapping experiences and if it would be a good idea to share a way to do it. I decided that it would be. So here is a way to do it based on previous projects. I’ve broken it down into 7 steps. In Step 4 there are two...
by T@cS_2020 | Feb 7, 2020 | Community Development, Rural Community Development
Is community mapping still a thing? Participants at SCAT workshops drawing community maps Roughly two decades ago the SCAT field team was knee deep in community mapping workshops in the Northern Cape. The accompanying photos are from those workshops. I was reminded of...
by T@cS_2020 | Dec 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
by T@cS_2020 | Nov 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Launch of the Barry Streek Garden at Community House WE ARE CELEBRATING 35 YEARS OF PARTNERSHIPS IN RURAL SOUTH AFRICA Book Launch – Rural Voice II: 35 stories for 35 years...
by T@cS_2020 | Oct 3, 2019 | News, Uncategorized
by T@cS_2020 | Sep 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Dullah Omar School for paralegals gets underway tomorrow, Friday 6 September and ends Wednesday 11 September. The venue is at the Cape Town Lodge, Buitengracht Street, Cape Town. See the program below.
by T@cS_2020 | Aug 24, 2018 | Community Development
As a young man growing up in Winterveld, a rural community approximately 50km north of Pretoria I did not appreciate the value of growing our own food. I remember we would wake up early in the morning before sunrise to go into the field to remove weeds. We hated this...
by T@cS_2020 | Jul 29, 2018 | Charity, Community Development
“At times you must step off the dance floor and onto the balcony”: A reflection on SCAT’s Women and Leadership training by Emma Goliath of Witzenburg Rural Development Centre WRDC: 2018 Early in 2018 I attended the Women in Leadership training in Citrusdal hosted by...
by T@cS_2020 | Jul 3, 2018 | Workshops
Reflections on our first YouthBank training workshop: Colleen Alexander-Julies SCAT’s first YouthBank training took place from the 23rd to 26th of April 2018. This is the start of our pilot YouthBank project funded by the Global Fund for Community Foundations (GFCF)....
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