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Who is ASAP?

African Solutions to African Problems (ASAP) supports grassroots organizations of women running drop-in centres for orphans and children made vulnerable by AIDS in South Africa.

We are implementing the ASAP 6-year Model that develops and strengthens informal groups into mature community-based organizations, capable of giving comprehensive care to the vulnerable children within their communities.

Since 2003 ASAP has contributed to about 700 women caring for over 15,000 children with nutrition and broad-based care, with access to education, health services and social welfare. Read more

Latest News

Filming African Solutions

Jan 19th, 2012

Regular visitors to our Facebook page would have already encountered film-maker Christopher Nicholas’ work.  Chris flew in from the UK last October to run a groundbreaking video project for ASAP in the Eastern Cape, helping to uplift young lives both in front and behind the camera, and in the process produce a number of videos spotlighting ASAP’s work.

Chris made the video for our recent New York fundraiser.

He…

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A New Library! Thanks to you.

Jan 15th, 2012

Great news on our Christmas Book Campaign.  Thanks to your generosity we managed to obtain an entire library’s worth of books, in fact just under 300 titles!  That works out as 32 Sets, 17 Shelves, 3 Cases and 2 Crates.  These books will go into a new school library at Njijini JSS, close to Letticia Tshelana’s drop in centre in the Eastern Cape in the next couple of months…

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