Coffee Bay
Coffee Bay is a rural village on the coast of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The area is extremely beautiful with rolling hills, pristine beaches and traditional Xhosa rondavels that dot the countryside. Despite the beauty of the area, its people are among the poorest in the country and suffer from a lack of opportunities, poor infrastructure, and other social and environmental problems associated with poverty. Read more…
About Sustainable Coffee Bay
Sustainable Coffee Bay is a non-profit association established by Coffee Shack Backpackers to promote sustainable development within the greater Coffee Bay area. Our mission is to develop projects and activities which are vital to the well-being of our community and environment. Education is one of our chief objectives. Read more…
Our projects
We aim to achieve our objectives through sustainable projects and activities within a supportive framework. While we focus mostly on educational projects, other projects aim to empower the whole community or fulfil specific community needs. Each year, despite many challenges, the existing projects are evolving and exciting new ones emerging. Read more…
Get involved
The easiest way to get involved is to offer a donation to any project you want. We’re in the process of building a new Montessori school and have received of R300 000.00, which unfortunately is not nearly enough to cover the building and equipping of the 230m² Early Learning Centre, so all donations are most welcome. Donations may be given in the form of goods or in a monetary form. Read more…
Look forward to hearing from you.
Love,
The Sustainable Coffee Bay team
This is Christine Syamah from Mathesa Professional Services CC, a Service provider send out to assist ILM by NDA in preparing ILM systems for NDA funding. We conducted a full skills audit and business review and gave Dawn (CEO) advice on how to set up appropriate systems for managing the the ILM pre school.
Congratulations Dawn for implementing our recommendations. Wishing you all the best of luck with your projects.
Christine Syamah
Director Mathesa Professional Services
083 304 0777
syamahc@netactive.co.za
Thank you for posting such a wonderful page. I appreciate it!
My name is Angela Voell, and I am a photographer out of the Madison WI area. I am currently working closely with Charlene Quest, (who helped out and visited Coffee Bay, and is very passionate about her experience there) and we are in the process of organizing a fashion show fundraiser in hopes of making donations to your organization, and to those in need in Japan. My question to you is, what are your needs, and what would benefit your program most? All thoughts and ideas are warmly welcomed. Thank you for your precious time:)
Angela Voell
What do you mean by sustainability????
Sustainabilty in that we set up projects, empower local people with skills so that they are able to maintain those projects in the future. Do not give a man a fish, teach him how to fish – that is sustainability. Hope that answers your question. Thank you, Dawn