San Salvador Community Hub

San Salvador Community Hub A safe, stimulating and interactive space for the neurodiverse and intellectually disabled community.

Well done Naomi!Our Manager has been nominated for the SA Heroes Awards for 2026 🎉For her commitment to our community hu...
01/10/2026

Well done Naomi!
Our Manager has been nominated for the SA Heroes Awards for 2026 🎉
For her commitment to our community hub, she has been recognised under the Specialised Care category.

Many of you will know Naomi for her relentless positivity, her capacity to see opportunities, to dream big dreams and her energy to make them happen!

Naomi, we are delighted at this well deserved nomination, your skill and commitment deserve to be recognised!

Now she needs your help!
Please cast your vote by SMSing SAHA 039 to 47439.

Voting closes on the 20th of November 2026. 
R3 per SMS (free SMS do not apply)

Most designers decide what they want to make, and then find someone to produce it. Eduard does it the other way around.H...
23/09/2026

Most designers decide what they want to make, and then find someone to produce it. Eduard does it the other way around.

He is a volunteer at our Community Hub and the founder of Glowveld, a brand that makes handcrafted, eco-friendly products for South Africa’s luxury travel and hospitality world. And his starting point is always the same: who is in the room, and what are they good at?

“Everybody is good at something,” Ed says.
“My job is to find what that is and design toward it, rather than deciding what I want and then asking who can produce it.”
It is an approach that has taken him to workshops and communities the industry rarely thinks to engage with, and San Salvador Community Hub is one of them.

Glowveld makes handcrafted pieces from recycled materials, built for South Africa’s luxury hospitality and travel market. Ed started the brand because he believed there was real skill in rooms the industry had never bothered to walk into, and that those skills deserved to be designed around rather than ignored.

Every product in the range is made from something that was going to be thrown away, by people who are too often overlooked by the working world. That is not incidental to the brand. It is the whole point.

One of the products that came out of Ed’s time with us is a fabric memory game. He noticed that sewing was a real strength in the Hub and built the product around that, rather than the other way around. It’s the perfect, kid-friendly game for an eco-conscious traveller.

Ed taught Cathy how to make the memory cards, and she is now one of the makers behind every set that goes out. Each one is cut, sewn and finished by hand, from fabric that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Our community can now play a game they made themselves, from materials that were on their way to the bin.
Ed’s upcoming installation, Still Here, follows the same thinking: everything in it is made from discarded material, by people who are often sidelined by the working world. It’s launching next year, and our Hub is part of it!

Ed is more than an entrepreneur, he is a friend and a partner in the !

If you would like to find out more about his company, or are interested in stocking or purchasing Eduard's products, he would love to hear from you!

&Inclusivity

This year’s Casual Day theme - Beat as One - couldn’t feel more like home! Last week, our team travelled to Pretoria to ...
19/09/2026

This year’s Casual Day theme - Beat as One - couldn’t feel more like home!

Last week, our team travelled to Pretoria to take part in a Casual Day event hosted by the Department of Employment and Labour.
We got to perform a few songs and alongside fellow NGOs, we also proudly showcased the work of some of our microbusinesses.
Our team was met with warmth, smiles and interest, and despite a bit of rain, we had a successful day 😎

It was powerful to see communities with different abilities, from different parts of our city, come together and remind each other that we all have something valuable to offer!

Thank you to Ms Liza Weber and her team for creating space for us at this event, and for championing the kind of inclusion that goes beyond awareness!

31/08/2026

Something so simple has opened up a whole world of opportunities!

Recently, our Hub received a donation of an overlocker. 
Cathy, our enthusiastic sewing queen, has jumped at the opportunity to learn how to use it. She is a founder of Needle Thread - a micro business selling hand-made items. With the help of this new machine, she is now able to create a whole range of new products (like this eco-friendly memory game!).
Using scraps of fabric, she has turned waste into a long-lasting and lovely game that can be sold at our markets and enjoyed by many for years to come!

Thank you Nick and family from St Stithians! 
At your last visit, you saw a gap, and you made a plan to fill it.
Thanks to you, Cathy has grown in confidence and in capacity, and she is now able to create all sorts of exciting things to sell! 
Your kind donation has made a lasting impact on our community!

If you would like to get involved in supporting our community, Naomi would love to hear from you!
[email protected]

28/08/2026

It’s our turn to be the audience!

Our Hub members have spent the last few months working hard, taking their performances out to the community around them.
This time, we wanted to give them a turn to be on the receiving end for a change!

An afternoon in the sun with live acoustic music may be something simple, but for most of our team, watching a live performance is a rare privilege.
Most of our members don’t often get the chance to just sit back and enjoy someone else’s performance, so this was a proper treat.

If you’re able to bring your music, your talent, or even a few free tickets to a show, we’d love to have you involved. It means more to our team than you’d think!

Please send us a DM or email Naomi - [email protected]

26/08/2026

You saw us for who we really are!
Not just as people with disabilities, but as the talented performers, creators, and contributors that we are.

We were truly humbled by the response we received from you on the evening, as well as the many positive reviews and messages you sent afterwards.

It encourages us to continue sharing our message of inclusivity and acceptance.

We want to extend our sincerest thanks to Franklin Players Community Theatre for this opportunity.
True inclusion is not just having us in the room, it’s giving us a platform and a voice - and that is
exactly what you did for us.

We are excited to continue our journey, challenging perceptions and showing the world what people with disabilities are ACTUALLY capable of.
We are changing the world one performance at a time 😎
Keep following, and remember to share our stories – San Salvador Community Hub- Imagining new possibilities!

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✨ This is what July has brought at Learn, Move, Connect! ✨What an incredible month it has been! 💙 Throughout July, we we...
21/08/2026

✨ This is what July has brought at Learn, Move, Connect! ✨

What an incredible month it has been! 💙 Throughout July, we were privileged to welcome four passionate, talented, and caring volunteers who each brought their own unique skills, creativity, and enthusiasm to our programme.
Two of these amazing ladies spent time at the Community Hub:

🚦 Charleen introduced residents to essential community living skills, including map reading, recognising road signs, and learning how to cross the road safely with confidence.

⚽ Skye encouraged everyone to get moving with an energetic morning of ball games, bowling, and egg-and-spoon races, promoting physical activity, teamwork, laughter, and the joy of being outdoors in the fresh air.

Each workshop was intentionally designed to promote cognitive learning, life skills development, sensory stimulation, physical movement, social connection, confidence, and, above all, enjoyment.

A heartfelt thank you to our incredible volunteers for investing your time, kindness, and talents into our residents. Your impact extends far beyond each workshop, and we are so grateful for the difference you have made.

It is truly an honour to implement the Learn, Move, Connect programme and to witness our residents learning, growing, connecting, and having fun together .

This is what July has brought… and we can’t wait to share everything we have in store for August! Stay tuned , there’s so much more learning, moving, connecting, and smiling ahead.

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19 Melville Road, Hyde Park (Entrance On 1st Rd)
Johannesburg

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Monday 09:00 - 15:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 15:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 15:00
Thursday 09:00 - 15:00

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