Providing opportunities for the Homeless
Programme
Network
The Net does not seek to replace existing interventions. We NETWORK with different organisations, private individuals and Government working with Street People. This avoids replication of interventions and prevents manipulation of services.
We share information with our closest counterparts in Simonstown, Kalk Bay, and Muizenberg, through respective Ward Councillors, Social Workers and NGO’s (Happy Valley, The Haven, U-Turn, Living Hope and Hosa).
The Fish Hoek Valley Residents and Ratepayers Association and the Fish Hoek Business Improvement District have stated their support for The Net initiative.
Volunteers Connecting
We rely largely on the generosity of volunteers in giving their time to work with The Net. This keeps overheads down and ensures that money donated goes to meeting the needs of Street People.
The Volunteers prepare and eat food and clean up with the Street People and many facilitate morning devotional, life skills and skills transfer group discussions.
It is through sitting with a street person and engaging with them on a one-to-one basis, sharing encounters and acknowledging the person as an individual that we can begin to restore esteem needed to make life changing decisions. Conversations and engagement are both key to reintegration.
If you are interested in volunteering, we would welcome and appreciate your assistance.
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Our Network Partners
We share information through a forum of organisations operating in the street people space to ensure a holistic and integrated approach to the homeless in the area.
Living Hope
Living Hope adopt a holistic approach where they seek to address people wherever they are through four ministries, of compassionate health care, recovery and restoration, guidance to right living and economic improvement.
A mobile Nurse from Living Hope connects with Street People at the Net to conduct health screening tests.
Street People engaging with The Net are exposed to opportunity to engage through the Living Hope Recovery and Restoration Programme.
Individuals at the Net receive guidance from trained psychologists and counsellors and opportunity exists to attend the Living Hope Job Centre and there are opportunities for employment
Espavo: Zaeemah Robinson
The objective of Espavo Projects is to enable homeless and destitute individuals in Fish Hoek and South Peninsula areas to become self-sustainable through skills development and training opportunities and where possible, to generate an income through their skills.
Happy Valley and The Haven
The objective of Espavo Projects is to enable homeless and destitute individuals in Fish Hoek and South Peninsula areas to become self-sustainable through skills development and training opportunities and where possible, to generate an income through their skills.
The HeArt Project
The HeArt project is a start up not for profit organization operating in the Southern Peninsula of Cape Town whose mission is to touch the lives of those in need through meditation, art and connection. Individuals attending HeArt Project workshops join together for a meal at the Net. The relationship becomes a two-way referral.
Revamp The Valley
Revamp The Valley is a registered Non-Profit Organisation based in Fish Hoek involved in Community Improvement.
U-Turn
U-Turn operate a Service Centre in Muizenberg and in Claremont. Street People expressing a desire to engage in the Life Change programme through U-Turn are accordingly referred.
Network
The Net does not seek to replace existing interventions. We NETWORK with different organisations, private individuals and Government working with Street People. This avoids replication of interventions and prevents manipulation of services.
We share information with our closest counterparts in Simonstown, Kalk Bay, and Muizenberg, through respective Ward Councillors, Social Workers and NGO’s (Happy Valley, The Haven, U-Turn, Living Hope and Hosa).
The Fish Hoek Valley Residents and Ratepayers Association and the Fish Hoek Business Improvement District have stated their support for The Net initiative.
Work for Credit
Clients at The NET are able to earn an income in the form of a stipend by fulfilling key roles in the organisation or working on projects which qualify for a stipend.
Volunteers Connecting
We rely largely on the generosity of volunteers in giving their time to work with The Net. This keeps overheads down and ensures that money donated goes to meeting the needs of Street People.
The Volunteers prepare and eat food and clean up with the Street People and many facilitate morning devotional, life skills and skills transfer group discussions.
It is through sitting with a street person and engaging with them on a one-to-one basis, sharing encounters and acknowledging the person as an individual that we can begin to restore esteem needed to make life changing decisions. Conversations and engagement are both key to reintegration.
If you are interested in volunteering, we would welcome and appreciate your assistance.
Appealing to the Community
Have you ever felt conflicted between the guilt that you have food and a bed to sleep in or the desire to assist those less fortunate than you and knowing that by giving money or even food all too often keeps the person street-bound.
The Net encourages members of the community to make donations through The NET, NGO’s or structured organisations to meet the needs of street people.
The Net sends out regular information about where the community can refer street people when they are confronted by someone requesting assistance.
As one central coordinating body in Fish Hoek, The NET are better able to direct both assistance offered and support needed.
We acknowledge homelessness is multi-faceted, we cannot solve homelessness or poverty – it is an age-old phenomenon. We can however provide opportunity for people who want to, to get the support they need and inevitably help themselves. We aim to work together, in this arena, to the benefit of the community as a whole.