SEEtrust

The SEEtrust mission is to contribute to a more sustainable way of living through creating and implementing entrepreneurial formulas that combine economical and social development.
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Our first project is in Roodepoort, Johannesburg, connected to the Tshepang programme.
our site is next to an informal settlement where almost 10.000 people live. Facilities for schooling, care, work are scarce. Next to the settlement developers are creating housing for middle class.
Susan Rammekwa started the 'Tshepang programme' for orphaned and vulnerable children. She started in 2007 and now Susan and her team take care of 160 children everyday and counsel their families and care takers. Tshepang provides meals, learning and social activities, financial support for uniforms and transport and so on.

Our SEEtrust project here:
We bought 2 hectares of construction land and a big house and terrain for the Tshepang program. The construction will provide work and housing and will create the means for extending the Tshepang facilities and create facilities for small entrepreneurial activities (like bakery, workshops)
We will develop 70 apartments, extend the house and add new social and educational facilities, create spaces for bakery and a medical information center, create workshop and housing for local entrepreneurs.
We will sell and partly rent the apartments and commercial spaces, to finance and maintain the social facilities.
We set up a network to support local initiatives: partner with Susan who runs and developes Tshepang, create linkages with professional networks like MKI and Red Palm Bakeries, create micro financing opportunities, etc.

We are now preparing the set up a muffin bakery . This bakery would make muffins for the children and also to sell, and will provide work for 6-8 people and can run economically self sustained. The muffins are a special kind: 'fortified' muffins with a high nutrition value. Reasearch showed that thse muffins increase the health of children significantly within 3 months.
Another initiative is to set up a medical knowledge information center (from basic healthcare education to HIV/Aids protection) in cooperation with the Medical Knowledge Institute (www.infomki.org).
We hope that we can make these projects happen in the coming 6 - 12 monthts. These might also give opportunities for our learning journey.

Another development is that we are trying to further develop and elaborate the SEEtrust approach and formulas. Roodepoort is for SEEtrust one pilot project. We are looking to create new business and development models in the near future and to find locations and partners to make this happen. Think of a combination of low cost and eco friendly housing, enterprise and job development, learning and education, social facilities. We want to grow SEEtrust in an entrepreneurial way. It could also mean that business development can become part of our learning journey.

For more info on SEEtrust, go to our site.