Who we are

The Community Chest’s vision of a country where all individuals and families reach their human potential is based on the fundamentality of access to Health, Education, Income-Generation and Community Development. These 4 key strategic focus areas facilitate social change to inspire a citizenship that is active, engaged and impactful.

Key Focus areas

Health

Health Includes physical, mental and spiritual well-being. Community Chest has strategic partnerships with local, national and international partners to:

advance access to health
advocate for affordable quality health systems and
promote leadership in the execution of health programmes

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Education

Community Chest has strategic partnerships with local, national and international partners to enhance this lifelong experience by

advocating for quality ECD, primary, secondary and tertiary education
creating an enabling environment by influencing policy and
Contributing to leadership and capacity development in education.

Community Development

Community Chest engages and collaborates with organisations, concerned citizens and professionals to build resilient and responsive communities where access and opportunities to health, education and income-generation services are advanced.

Income Generation

Community Chest has strategic partnerships with local, national and international partners to:

advance opportunities for traditional and alternative income-generating ventures,
advocate for policies that facilitate entrepreneurship
support organisations that focus on education, skills development and leadership.

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Values

We espouse the following eight values, which we believe are crucial to achieving transformation:

Initiatives

A focus on strategic Initiatives in order to shift from a culture of poverty to a culture of prosperity

Intention

A clear Intention of our strategy and areas of engagement

Intervention

A focused strategy for our Intervention

Influence

Purposefully designed strategies to address the ‘Power Versus Influence’ challenge that often strangles development

Intelligence

The use of Intelligence in solutions, to address the issues we seek to solve

Innovation

Innovative approaches to donor fund management, which seek to go above and beyond ‘the norm’

Impact

Quantitative measurement of the Impact of our interventions

Integrity

Integrity when dealing with donors and the community

These eight values, which we seek to implement in all four of our focus areas, underpin our core objective - To Inspire a Nation of Active Citizens.