Our Sustainability Projects: Community-Led Solutions in Action

Turning local challenges into opportunities that empower youth, support enterprise, celebrate culture and build sustainable communities.

For more than 30 years, Dreamcatcher South Africa NPC has worked with communities to turn lived needs, local knowledge and research into practical action. Our projects connect people, environment, culture, skills and local economies, because challenges experienced in everyday life rarely exist in isolation. We work alongside communities to discover what is needed, recognise what already exists and co-design responses that can be tested, refined and sustained. Our philosophy, project research and development ethos is that people are far more likely to maintain what they have helped to create.

Explore our work across circular economy, environmental regeneration, culture and heritage, youth development, health and wellbeing, and community enterprise.

Environment and climate action

Waste being burned in Melkhoutfontein 2010
Addressing waste challenges - From Waste to a Circular Economy
Saaymans composting
Green Johanna Home Composting Project
Crafting waste in to a resource - Made in Melkhoutfontein
Crafting waste into a resource - Made in Melkhoutfontein
La Bloemen Botantical Garden
Wasteland to Gracedland - La Bloemen Botantical Garden

Reawakening culture, heritage and spaces

PaintUp with Kamamma - Mural Painting Project
PaintUp with Kamamma - Mural Painting Project
St Augustines Church
Preserving Our Heritage - Reawakening St Augustine's Church
Dreamcatcher Home Office 2008-2022
Dreamcatcher Home Office 2008-2022

Empowering youth

Dreamcatcher Kids
Working with Youth -The Dreamcatcher Kids Initiative
STEPi
STEPi – Squaring The Education Pyramid Institute

Health and wellbeing

Food growing
Food growing - Back2Front Yard Farming
First Responders
First Responders - Supporting Community Wellbeing
Covid - Support During the Pandemic
Covid Response - Community Support
Kick Up with Kamamma - Wellbeing Initiative
Kick Up with Kamamma - Wellbeing Initiative
Dentaid
Dentaid The Dental Charity - Melkhoutfontein Project
Wellbeing and stress management
Wellbeing & Stress Management Initiatives