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Substance abuse among youth has a severe effect on communities and families along with addicts getting younger every year.

Climate-resilient livestock  and crops are being provided to farmers in vulnerable communities in response to changing weather patterns.

The Namakwa District in the Northern Cape is a dry, hot and remote place where farming activities are heavily affected by climate change.

The right to health care services is enshrined in the South African Constitution and includes the provision of access to services including reproductive health and emergency services, basic health services for children and medical support for a wide range of others including prisoners.

 A support group is determined to change the way men are viewed in society by showing them how to earn respect in non-violent ways.

Khulumani Support Group Men’s Forum is restoring men’s dignity within communities.

With July also being Men's Month, the forum aims to win back trust from women and other members of the public and ensure that men work hard to eradicate all elements of abuse in their households.

A Western Cape initiative to honour Mandela has been life-changing for a number of sick children.

Two-year-old Zahrane Lewin from Cape Town was born with enlarged tonsils, which affected her ability to keep food down and caused interrupted sleep for the little girl.

With her condition worsening, her parents were desperate to provide her with the operation she would need to have her tonsils removed and lead a normal life.

“I seem to arrive more firmly at the conclusion that my own life struggle has had meaning only because, dimly and perhaps incoherently, it has sought to achieve the supreme objective of ensuring that each, without regard to race, colour, gender or social status, could have the possibility to reach for the skies.”

What started out as a T-shirt printing hobby for Gugulethu-born Thabiso Mokomele has grown into an award-winning clothing business.

Organisations that give support to the victims of gender-based violence will now be able to respond more effectively, thanks to the donation of vehicles by the Gauteng government.

The Gauteng Department of Social Development recently handed over 12 vehicles to non-profit organisations (NPOs) that help fight gender-based violence. 

Technological teaching methodologies will be used in the training of nurses in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN).

A multi-media centre worth R1.2 million has been donated to the nursing school at Grey’s Hospital in Pietermaritzburg, KZN to improve skills training for student nurses.

One of the students at the nursing school Busisiwe Sithole said the computers will help her and fellow students to better understand the content that they study because technology will allow them to practically see the imagery and videos of what they studied in theory.