LekaGape Organisation

As a non-profit-organisation, LekaGape mostly cares about socially disadvantaged people in one of the poorest regions of South Africa. LekaGape workers want to find solutions to important problems such as poverty and unemployment, but also to alcoholism and to psychological and physical abuse. Projects, which are always realised in cooperation with locals, mainly focus on young people and women.





The help of LekaGape aims at the field of social work as well as at the field of economic development. Two reasons contribute to that: Firstly, effective social help cannot work


without a certain economic reality and income generating projects always have to include


a social component. Secondly, this makes it possible to generate money for other social


projects.





Thus, LekaGape initiates many projects both in the social and economic sector. For example, a bakery was built. Besides the government, this is the most important employer in Lulekani. On the social sector, a Women and Children\'s Shelter was opened in 2004 to give women and children in need a save haven.