“Young people have always been the drivers of social change. And this generation holds unique promise.”

In GEO’s latest Perspectives, CTAOP’s Busiswa Dayimani challenges grantmakers to look beyond individual success stories and invest in the conditions that allow entire communities to thrive. Drawing on her work in South Africa, Busi makes the case for longer-term funding, community ownership and a different way of measuring impact.

CTAOP’s Program Partners – community-based organizations across Southern Africa –are finding ‘Hope in Action’ –– despite many systemic challenges the young people they work with in their communities face. Watch to hear directly from them on the incredible work they do, the mutuality of our relationships, and the power of having someone believe in you.

In August, CTAOP hosted our biennial Swidler Summit in South Africa’s Gauteng province. Every other year, we bring together all our Program Partner leaders for a week of deep restoration outside of their everyday lives and the work they pour themselves into. Because as one of Agahozo Shalom Youth Village’s leaders noted this Summit, “you cannot give what you do not have.”