iThemba Labantu - Lutheran Community Centre

iThemba Labantu - Lutheran Community Centre iThemba Labantu is a Community Centre situated in Philippi, one of Cape Town's poorest townships Health care (AIDS-clinic)
2. Nutrition (feeding schemes)
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The Lutheran Community Centre assists the township communities through the following fields of operation:
1. Income generating projects (beadwork, ceremics,sewing)
4. Education (pre-school, computer lab, business courses, motor mechanics and installation of solar systems)
5. Youth work (gym, karate, soccer, drama etc.) Visions of Youth Work
- Create equal opportunities for Youth of historically

disadvantaged areas and balance social injustice within society
- Create a place of love, safety, acceptance
- Encourage them to believe that they can achieve everything they want in life
- Balance social problems through working with their strength and build up self-esteem
- Create a safer Philippi and South Africa through building up Youth

Aims of Youth Work
- get kids off the street
- teach them to integrate into groups and work together
- build up trustful relationships with them
- help them to get their lives into order
- teach them life skills
- provide education and deal with their social/family problems

Our current youth projects
- Marimba project – 20 kids between 11 and 17 years
- youth/drama group – 30 youngsters between 15 and 23
- soccer – 120 youngsters between 8 and 25
- karate – 20 kids between 6 and 18
- basketball
- youth counselling with school leavers
- school after care program

Winter has arrived in Cape Town and it is cold. Thank you Sternstunden e. V. for providing our pre-schoolers with warm f...
03/06/2026

Winter has arrived in Cape Town and it is cold. Thank you Sternstunden e. V. for providing our pre-schoolers with warm fleece jerseys!

A warm welcome to our new culinary students!
21/05/2026

A warm welcome to our new culinary students!

Our solar/ plumbing students are busy with their practical training.
20/05/2026

Our solar/ plumbing students are busy with their practical training.

Social worker from Les Femmes wellness services visited our students today and introduced their trauma and gender based ...
14/05/2026

Social worker from Les Femmes wellness services visited our students today and introduced their trauma and gender based violence services.

The current status of your sportsfield...We have had terrible wheather.
12/05/2026

The current status of your sportsfield...We have had terrible wheather.

Over 500 children and adults take part daily in our various programs. They all need to use water. Our new borehole ensur...
08/05/2026

Over 500 children and adults take part daily in our various programs. They all need to use water. Our new borehole ensure that there will be always enough and that we can afford. Thanks a lot to the Förderkreis Rotary Club Dorsten that made it possible.

Our students are attending a three days long financial training run by Avo.
07/05/2026

Our students are attending a three days long financial training run by Avo.

Today we welcomed Baard who came all the way from Norway. Thanks for visiting us.
04/05/2026

Today we welcomed Baard who came all the way from Norway. Thanks for visiting us.

The boys club enjoyed their outing to the Waterfront.
03/05/2026

The boys club enjoyed their outing to the Waterfront.

Our U8 and U10 soccer boys are doing well at the Strandfontain tournament.
02/05/2026

Our U8 and U10 soccer boys are doing well at the Strandfontain tournament.

Address

Cape Town
7750

Website

http://www.berliner-missionswerk.de/partner-projekte-weltweit/projekte/suedafrika-ithe

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