Project Description

Hi Everyone!


Here's a short description of the project we're working on:
We are a class at Copenhagen Open High School working with a project about corporate social responsibility - or CSR. Our school's profile is very innovative and global. The purpose of our project is to make a global contact, and in order to do that we have been given the opportunity to co-operate with Maersk Line in Cape Town. We have also gained a partnership with the organisation Afrika Tikkun (www.afrikatikkun.org) which is a ‘non-profit’ organisation who has helped families since 1994. Afrika Tikkun has different projects attached to helping and empowering children and young people in different townships in South Africa. The township that we are focusing on is in Western Cape and is called Mfuleni.

Afrika Tikkun's work is divided into three areas:
Development Programmes whose goal is to develop different groups, e.g. children, young people and children with special needs and their families.
Centres of Excellence are 6 centres which have got facilities that primarily kids and adolescents can gain from. They eat and ‘hang out’ there, like in an after-school care.
Special Projects cooperate with Afrika Tikkun and other various organisations. One of them focuses on helping the attendees making food, use computers and other technology. Other centres specialise in helping the physically and mentally troubled, or sexually abused children.

Our project is a cooperation with both Maersk Line in Cape Town and Afrika Tikkun with the goal of finding the best way of supporting the Afrika Tikkun's  development programmes in South Africa. Maersk has given us the possibility to get our things shipped in a container to South Africa. Things that we have collected during the project for the benefit of all young people, children and their parents who attend the Afrika Tikkun programmes.