Current Projects

Eco-Toilet Initiative

Toilet facilities are crucial for the development of young people. The Eco-Toilet Initiative involved the installation of toilets at the Khensani's Collection ECD centre in Diepsloot. In addition, classroom facilities were upgraded and a rainwater harvesting system was installed.

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Rotary Club Blanket Drive

The Rotary Club of Morningside has been a part of the Rotary Club Blanket Drive for the past 15 years. We provide blankets through donations, NGO purchases and fundraising events. Blankets are donated to communities in Gauteng and throughout South Africa.

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Sechaba Support Project

This initiative was created to assist those who had no access to food during The COVID-19 pandemic. The Sechaba Support Initiative raised funds to support a feeding program which was run by Oratile, an ECD Centre in Diepsloot.

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Previous Projects

Rotary Family Health Day

This is one of our flagship projects at the Rotary Club of Morningside. Each year the club organises the Family Health Day which is held over three days, in Diepsloot.  Hearing tests, HIV testing and counselling are conducted for the community.

  • RFHD 2019
  • RFHD 2019
  • RFHD 2019

Kwena Molapo School in Lanseria

Kwena Molapo high school has consistently produced exceptional matric results over the past decade (above 95%). The Rotary Club of Morningside has provided and supported the school with  a library and an all-weather sports court.

  • Kwena sports complex opening
  • KM courts
  • KM Project

SANCA

The Rotary Club of Morningside has developed a strong portfolio of projects combatting substance abuse. Strong relationships with the Central Rand branch of the South African National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependency (SANCA) have been built over the past two decades.

  • In the late 1990s, the Rotary Club of Morningside sponsored a 15-year old boy from Alexandra to spend six weeks undertaking a programme at the Staanvas (today Stabilis) Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre in Pretoria. He successfully completed treatment despite a pending court case.
  • In 2007, the club designed and built an alcohol and drug rehabilitation outpatient centre in Diepsloot for operation by SANCA. Up until that time, SANCA had been operating in Diepsloot without a fixed facility.
  • In recent years, we have been running our Rotary Family Health Days in Diepsloot in collaboration with SANCA. SANCA has utilised this event to implement its drug awareness campaign.
  • Previously, The Rotary Club of Morningside and the Rotary Club of Grande Pairie (Alberta, Canada) collaborated on a project for the supply of gym equipment to SANCA’s new in-patient centre at Golden Harvest in the Northgate area of Johannesburg.
Gym Equipment Sanca 4.1
Gum Equipment Sanca 4.2
  • In 2018, The Rotary Club of Morningside donated branded jackets and torches to the SANCA-related Eldorado Park Drug Action Committee. A member of the club accompanied members of the Action Committee on drug raids in the area and witnessed the effective usage of the donated material.

General De La Rey School

General De La Rey School is a dual medium school for children from Grade R to Grade 7. Over the years the Rotary Club of Morningside has assisted the school with stationery packs and other necessities for those children who cannot afford them. We have also provided electronic white boards which teachers have found very useful.

Diepsloot Cricket Club

The Diepsloot Cricket Club competes in the Gauteng leagues. The Rotary Club of Morningside supports the club by providing cricket kit and procuring transport for the teams’ away matches.

Blanket Drive

The Blanket Drive is one of the foremost projects of the club. It raises funds and provides blankets for school children during the winter. To date we have over 400 blankets to donate.

Other Ongoing Projects

  • Ongoing donations for seeds for a vegetable garden at Sivilele School in Soweto
  • Ongoing collection of spectacles, wool and matric dance outfits