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OUR STRATEGIC INTENT

To campaign against poverty, deprivation, ignorance and crime by practically reaching out into communities and making a positive difference one family at a time.

OUR VISION

To sustainably assist with the upliftment of those who are impoverished, unemployed, homeless, orphaned disabled, incarcerated and aged.

OUR MISSION

To break the negative cycle of poverty and crime and to build and restore dignity, hope and health by extending knowledge, skills sets and abilities both physically and spiritually.

OUR PHILOSOPHY

It’s not someone else’s problem, it’s our problem as communities, government, local government, business, religious bodies, NGOs, families and individuals. To encourage people who have a calling to voluntarily help the underprivileged or disadvantaged and restore the family unit as a functional society. With organized planning, we can contribute to alleviate and eradicate the affects of poverty and crime.

OUR MAIN OBJECTIVES

  • Be a community’s social organisation to network with Government and other Non Profit Organizations and Community Developers
  • Develop humanitarian projects that feed body, mind and spirit.
  • Identify needs and structure methods to address poverty alleviation.
  • Identify responsible leadership in communities that are involved in social activities and train them to be effective.
  • Ensure that sound moral values and principles of integrity underpin all the humanitarian projects that are undertaken.

OUR SECONDARY OBJECTIVES

  • Establish and provide Care and Counselling Centres for abused, homeless, orphans, traumatized and poor needy persons
  • Establish and provide nutritional feeding schemes, especially for children and persons living in dire poverty.
  • Conduct medical missions in needy areas, using the donated expertise of qualified doctors, nurses and counsellors as well as care workers in networking with government and other NPO’s.
  • Through surveys and engineering expertise, provide fresh potable water to communities, especially in areas affected by drought or cholera.
  • Establish training centres or use schools for the training of previously unemployed people in skills so that they can obtain employment.
  • Help provide equipment and facilities for the practice of such skills and the marketing of these products.

In terms of our primary objectives as set out above, 1in1out has established partnerships and works in association with governmental bodies, community developers (CSI) and NPOs.

We have adopted no fewer than 14 NPOs (Non profit Organisations) that receive little or no other support. We facilitate and effect outreach programmes in underprivileged and impoverished communities.

Most of these organisations are under-resourced and receive little or no support from the government or any other organisation. However, they provide meaningful and dedicated services to the needy. Several of the organisations are run by people who themselves need financial assistance.

In our experience we find that corporate social investment funding is increasingly channelled for investment in the more-readily recognized charitable organisations. This alignment of funding is often chosen by way of convenience and makes CSI funding and Brand Association less complicated.

The irony is that the “recognised charity brands” get increasing support, publicity and recognition whilst the equally deserving cases get little or no help at all. Organisations that operate in obscurity and do such outstanding charitable work regrettably do often not have the infrastructural know how or systems and processes in place that allow them to qualify for traditional Corporate Social Investment.

1in1out responds to the requests from these NPOs or groups that operate from their shacks and out rooms.

OUR AIM IS TO

  • Identify, examine and establish a working relationship.
  • Assist, train and coach them to operate in terms of the conditions and governance as laid down for a NPO.
  • Assist in the NPO registration process.
  • Obtain and supply basic resources for their survival.
  • Arrange weekly outreach programmes to expose them to the governmental bodies, corporate and churches with a view of seeking adoption or support.
  • We personally visit these organisations, provide resources and skills to bring them up to an acceptable standard and refer them to corporate entities for possible ‘fostering’ or ‘adoption’. Then we take another organization aboard. This is the1in1out philosophy.

We are in association with several organisations, churches, government bodies and individuals that assist in meeting our objectives. This includes corporate sponsors like our WesBank, FNB, Woolworths, Pep Stores, Purple Hat, Anglo Lamps, SABC TV, Temps Excellence, Rainbow 90.7 FM Radio Station, Advantage Asset Management, MC Auto Trimmers, Snack Worx, Famous Brands, several Churches and individuals.

DIRECTORSHIP

  • Stephen Thomas, CEO and Founder
  • Ruth Thomas, Co-founder and Administration
  • Medwyn Jacobs, Projects
  • Peter Russie, Communication
  • Ivan Paul, Financial
  • Ingrid Saffy, PRO
  • Burton Meyer, Legal
  • Bill Hebner, International Development
  • Chad Smith, BreakThrough Centre
  • Humphrey Birkenstock, Media and Housing
  • Diane P Govender
  • Thando Xaba
  • Sibanyoni Nomakhosazana

HARAMBE AWARD

In 2005 1in1out was presented the Harambe Award for the NPO for the most effective volunteer progamme. We partner with several corporates and churches with about 200 volunteers that join us as we work with the poorest of the poor. We work at and with orphanages, old age homes, and disaster struck settlements and communities that live in abject poverty. Our volunteers (up to about 200 adults and teens) that spend their Saturdays with the 1in1out team as we counsel, teach, repair, build, feed, help, give grocery hampers, clothing, blankets, literature, school stationery and a cooked hot meal.