Better Choice GUMBOOT DANCING. YOUTH PROJECT. TRADITIONAL DANCING.

The Better Choice Gumboot Dance Youth Project started in Khayelitsha in 2012. It teaches children Gumboot and Traditional dancing and offers after school activities to help keep them off the streets.

The full and legal name is Uthando Social Development Projects, South Africa, but trading as Uthando (Love) South Africa.

Uthando is a unique model of Travelling Philanthropy and Responsible Tourism linking the local and international tourism industry focused on South Africa with a broad range of innovative, inspiring and well managed community development projects.

Uthando South Africa is proud to work with and support an amazing collection of independent, well managed, innovative and inspiring community development projects and charitable organizations across a broad spectrum of sectors including the following :
Abused women and children / domestic violence
Agriculture and food gardens
Animal welfare
Human development through arts/culture and sport
Children and educare
Disabilities
Drug and alcohol abuse
Education
Elderly and ageing
Environmental and green
Farmworkers and rural development
HIV / AIDS
Housing / Shelter
Nutrition
Population health
Prisoner rehabilitation
Reconciliation and human rights development
Refugees and migrants
Skills development and empowerment
Sustainable economic development
Unemployment

Uthando (Love) South Africa offers authentic, uplifting, fun, inspirational, interactive and meaningful tours for FIT (individual) travellers as well as groups of any size visiting the community projects with which Uthando is working and supporting.

The Uthando Tour covers an extensive discussion on South African history, the legacy of Apartheid as well as indepth information on the political, social, economic, cultural and local issues confronting South Africa today. The core focus of the tour however is visiting interesting, innovative and inspiring community development projects and the incredible people driving these projects. We shine a light on the good work being done by so many good people, and at the same time help these wonderful individuals to continue with their efforts.

The tours run as daily scheduled tours or private tours for groups of any size. On any given tour 3 or 4 diverse community projects are visited. Projects visited include urban agriculture; animal welfare; youth development through the medium of art, dance, choir singing, classical music, drumming or sport; special needs education; assistance to refugees; the environment; economic empowerment through skills development; arts and crafts; prisoner rehabilitation; care and protection for children, women and the elderly and much more. People can request to visit a specific project or projects but this is subject to availability and logistical possibility.

Uthando only runs one tour per day. We are not a mass market tour company and thus booking is subject to availability. Our tours run Monday to Saturday and generally in the morning.

Visit our website to find out more about our community projects and responsible tourism: https://www.uthandosa.org

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