Celebrate Life

Celebrate Life SA is an organisation which aims to create awareness and facilitate support across society to alleviate human and environmental suffering. Celebrate Life SA uses the energy of committed individuals to catalyse real, grassroot changes through community engagement, social networks and broadcast platforms.

Celebrate Life SA was born in 2005 when 12 ladies climbed Kilimanjaro to raise R1 million for Hospice. Since then, the organisation has moved from strength to strength, supporting rhino projects to prevent rhino poaching and assisting in the development of Thula Thula Rhino Sanctuary. In 2014, Celebrate Life started the Ubuntu Oven Project; a sustainable women-empowerment programme, uplifting women in rural communities by providing them with micro-bakeries. These ladies bake four loaves of bread every twenty-five minutes. Whilst the ovens are primarily used to bake bread loaves, the ladies are also trained to bake pizzas, muffins, rolls and snowballs.

There is a need to put people, especially those suffering from poverty in our country, at the heart of change. By focusing on the alleviation of suffering, this change can spread across the nation, impacting individuals, families and communities. At the same time, we need to preserve and respect our land, our environment and our country.

To date, we have placed thirty ovens in the communities, creating over one hundred jobs and influencing hundreds of lives. Celebrate Life SA continues to try and eradicate poverty and uplift these women to a higher quality of life.

The Opportunity

By finding ways to support and invest in local businesses and causes, South Africans can foster this beautiful concept of Ubuntu, being of service to their neighbours, communities and citizens. Never before has it been so important to stand behind the phrase: Local is lekker.

There is an age old saying, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.”

This is a critical concept that can catalyse momentous change in South Africa. While it is challenging to see this type of change overnight, little – even tiny – contributions can make a difference in at least one person’s life.

Together we can create opportunities and change lives.