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Shap Shap strives to engage with rural communities around KZN to uplift and empower the people living in these regions.

Our goal is to educate and inspire people living even in the most remote parts of South Africa. In 2015, we started a small feeding scheme in the rural community of KwaNyuswa. It ran once a week at an orphanage, to provide a healthy meal for the children members of the community. We quickly identified a need to uplift members of the community and thus Shap Shap was born. Shap Shap’s primary goal is to create quality educational videos, books and programs in isiZulu, and share these with the rural communities of KwaZulu-Natal. We are passionate about identifying topics that cover areas of concern for people, such as: HIV, Diabetes, diet, how to start a business etc. For young children, we developed an Early Childhood Development program which comprises videos, books, yoga exercises for fine and gross motor skill development, songs and games. We run this at crèche’s to assist the programs which they provide for the children. For the youth, we have several programs, but the two which we are most passionate about are our HIV Leadership Course and our Entrepreneurship and Business Course. Creating change through education means that we are providing a platform for people to become the catalyst for their own growth and development. At Shap Shap, we use a holistic approach to provide the communities with social development programs that feed into each other. We focus on community development at the grassroots level and our goal is to educate and inspire people living in the most remote parts of South Africa. For over 6 years, Shap Shap has been working to give people in rural communities access to important information, education programs and skills development courses, so that individuals can have access to a better quality life and strive for better living conditions. Shap Shap has a tight-knit team of full-time staff and volunteers. We all love what we do and are very passionate about bringing about change in the communities that we work with. Most of our team live in, or have come from, rural areas so we understand the struggle of our fellow South Africans who are battling poor schooling and a general lack of access to basic services. Our founding members are Bianca Ivanković, Buhle Dlamini, Lawrence Jali and Kelvin Ivanković however we have expanded to now have 7 full-time staff members and a wonderful group of volunteers. Our team boasts several qualified HIV testers and councillors and TB councillors. We now also have a videographer working with us to create video content of a very high standard. We operate from two permanent community centres in kwaNyuswa and Hammarsdale, as well as from schools, community halls and on a home to home basis. Shap Shap programs provide support in some of the poorest and most underprivileged regions, creating opportunities for those in need to learn and thrive. Shap Shap also runs social empowerment programs, such as our feeding schemes, creche refurbishment work and Gogo’s groups.

30/04/2025

Wednesday are for our food runs. It is such a privilege to be able to offer a nutritious, warm meal to our community members.

01/10/2024

Donations donations donations! All we at Shap Shap can say is thank you 🙏🏽

Clothing and household goods have been coming in for both KwaNyuswa and Hammarsdale and we are so grateful.

These donations go to the orphanages and community care homes that we work with, and to our community centre for Gogo’s to sell. These sales help keep our feeding program afloat, whilst also giving the community a chance to shop for affordable items.

📸 Pictured here is a cheerful regular at the Hammarsdale Community Centre. We love the community that we work with.

21/08/2024

Thank you to our awesome team for your constant hard work and dedication! 💫

Lawrence, Sandile and Gabor, you are greatly appreciated by Shap Shap and the communities that you serve!

20/08/2024

Food for Life keep us going with their incredible weekly donation of hot, nutritious food that we distribute through our feeding scheme.

Thank you Food for Life! 👏🏽👏🏽

19/08/2024

Thank you to everyone who supports Shap Shap, enabling us to keep our plant based feeding scheme going in the KwaNyuswa and Hammarsdale communities. 🙏🏽

10/05/2024

Thank you to Dr Hadeba and Mr Anic (clinic co-ordination) for all their help arranging the groups that benefited from Code Hands & Hearts program that they ran Haley Stott Clinic in KwaNyuswa.

24/04/2024

Thank you to those who make our feeding scheme possible. 🥘

If you would like to contribute to our plant powered feeding scheme, please contact Gabor on 0827523020 or [email protected]

22/04/2024

Thank you to Malusi Mbongwa, who is the PRO at Helngisizwe Health Clinic in Hammarsdale for helping to arrange the time and space for the beneficiaries who attended the workshop run by Code Hands & Hearts

We are very thankful to him for his commitment to ensuring the success of the program that was greatly beneficial to the Hammarsdale community.

Again, Code Hands & Hearts did a remarkable job at emparting vital knowledge and skills to a wide audience, and we thank them on behalf of each of those who have benefited from this program.

19/04/2024

Thank you for supporting Shap Shap NPO and our endeavours to provide healthy, hearty plant based meals in the Hammarsdale and KwaNyuswa communities. 🌱🌱🌱

17/04/2024

Aline Cassis and her wonderfully passionate team, from Code Hands and Hearts NPO from Canada, ran a very informative and engaging workshop about infant and child care at Shap Shap’s community centre in Hammarsdale.

We are very grateful to Code Hands and Hearts NPO for empowering those who participated in this program with such life saving knowledge and skills 👶🏾

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+27827523030

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http://www.shapshap.org.za/

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