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Sewing Hub

This initiative aims to upskill mothers of children with disabilities residing in the Ugu District of KZN and essentially assist in setting up and running a sustainable business model. These women will be mentored and placed on to a sewing learnership, ultimately resulting in the production of bags, shoes and other goods which will be outsourced to...

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Siyakwazi Early Childhood Development Programme

Early Childhood Development (ECD) falls under the Department of Social Development, and is therefore not allocated funding by the Department of Education. Considering that 80% of the brain is developed in the first 1000 days of a child’s life, the importance of quality ECD cannot be overstated. Unfortunately the reality does not always allow ...

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Rise was born from a passion for people and creating opportunities within communities in South Africa.

The organisation is a subsidiary of Progression and focuses on people development through various empowerment initiatives which ultimately starts at grass roots level to empower communities. We have a variety of projects in need of funding.

Rise focuses on the following:

  • Change management
  • People empowerment (people with and without disabilities)
  • Resource-development in communities
  • Skills development
  • corporates with Communities
  • Various funding models for sustainability

Why fund these projects?

Socio-Economic Development (SED) is one of the five elements in the revised Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) codes. Thus, funding for these projects will provide organisations with valuable points towards their B-BBEE Scorecard under the Skills Development and or SED element.

Social upliftment has become everybody’s responsibility. As a result, organisations are looking at investments outside of their traditional stakeholder framework, reflecting on their impact on both the people and environments around them.

For us at Rise, community development is about sustainable empowerment, rather than a constant appeal for donations and handouts. Ultimately, whatever is implemented needs to continue to ‘work’ independently. In other words, it must be able to ‘stand on its own two feet’.