Hopelands is a start-up, non-profit, social service organisation founded in 2018 that aims to alleviate the orphan calamity in South Africa. Our mission is to build self-sustaining villages where orphaned children can be placed into a family environment and to create a place where they will receive unconditional love, care, nurturing and spiritual discipleship.
More than just a house
We’re so excited to share the progress on the house design for our first Hopelands Village. The hours of hard work, dedication and teamwork have produced a floor-plan that demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the children and mothers who live in the home feel comforted, at peace and know that the space was created especially for…
Strategy in Action
We had an extremely productive session with a strategist to assist us in plotting the next five years of Hopelands’ journey. The team put together what they envisioned for the project with the goal being a complete, self-sustaining village with 20 homes that will accommodate 120 children. A home where they can enjoy life with a…
Our ‘sites’ are set on progress
Hopelands put in a marathon 6-hour session on Friday night. Together with our planner, we strategised and prepared our Site Development Plan. The preparation was necessary in order to get the stamp of approval from our overseeing architect and engineer. We’re getting ever closer to submitting our SDP to the Municipality and so we are calling on…