Keiskamma Trust, Hamburg

Website: www.keiskamma.org
Contact persons: Unathi Meslane Community and Public Relations Manager
Carol Hofmeyr Trust Director

The Keiskamma Trust was founded by Dr Carol Hofmeyr, who set up the Art Project and the Keiskamma Health Program. The first of these engages a large number of women manufacturing articles incorporating traditional crafts, and the second runs a treatment centre and hospice mainly for HIV/Aids patients.
Related projects are the Keiskamma Educational Program with runs a Kindergarten and is building up the Heritage Village around it.
The whole initiative is described in detail on their Homepage www.keiskamma.org.
The village of Hamburg lies by the sea between the cities of Port Elisabeth and East London. The Keiskamma Project, since its inception, has made a lot of difference to the lives of the local community. This is what we can learn about and help to support in some small way.
Possible Activities
The Heritage Village is in the process of development and they would like to build a couple of traditional adobe rondavel huts, so as to demonstrate traditional building methods and styles, as well as to provide accommodation for visitors to the project, and possibly a small restaurant.
There is also a need for a hut or small building to accommodate a few orphan children that have been given shelter by the project but there are no proper facilities at the moment to house them.