SAVF Competitors

SADAG is a Non-Profit Organisation, a Registered Section 21 Company, with an 18a tax exemption. It has on its board a powerful team of Patients, Psychiatrists, Psychologists, and General Practitioners. SADAG was established twenty years ago to serve as a support network for the thousands of South Africans who live with mental health problems. Currently, it is estimated that 1 in 5 people will, or do, suffer from a mental illness. SADAG manages a 16-line counselling-and-referral call centre, and is the voice of patient advocacy, working in urban, peri-urban, and the most rural communities across South Africa.

Sonke Gender Justice is a women’s rights organisation committed to feminist principles using rights-based and gender-transformative approaches to achieve human rights and gender justice. Founded in 2006, Sonke centres on a shared understanding that violence against women and girls constitutes one of the gravest and most pervasive human rights violations that undermines our democracies in far-reaching ways. Our driving motivation remains that the gender inequalities, harmful norms, and power relations underpinning domestic and sexual violence are bad for both women and men, and that men and boys have critical roles in ending violence, transforming gender roles, and ultimately being part of solutions to achieve gender justice. Sonke works with community-based organisations, faith-based organisations, United Nations agencies, media, academic institutions, government, international NGOs, private sector, multilateral agencies, international human rights bodies, development partners, and intergovernmental agencies. In South Africa, Sonke is a registered NGO with offices in the Western Cape Province (Cape Town and a Wellness Centre in Gugulethu), Gauteng Province (Johannesburg and Diepsloot), Mpumalanga Province (Bushbuckridge), and Eastern Cape Province (Butterworth and East London). Through our partnerships, including as the MenEngage Africa (MEA) Alliance secretariat, we work in 24 countries across Africa with offices in Kampala (Uganda), Buea (Cameroon), and Maseru (Lesotho).

The South African Red Cross Society is a member organisation of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which is the largest volunteer driven organisation on earth. Our mission of the South African Red Cross Society is to render services to prevent, alleviate human suffering and to foster human dignity in all communities by addressing the basic needs of the people in accordance with the fundamental principles of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. Our vision is for the South African Red Cross Society (SARCS) to be a democratic service organization that is effective, high profile, dynamic, sensitive to the needs of all communities and acting within the fundamental principles of the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. Our core work focuses significantly on health and care services in addition to community-led disaster risk reduction priorities. SA Red Cross Society also implements further programs that are off international significance, i.e. the restoration of Family Links, Dissemination of the Fundamental Principles and International Humanitarian Law (IHL). These programs are crucial for the SA Red Cross Society to be responsible during peacetime and times of conflict.