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SALT Alliance vision

We see strong and courageous South African families and community groups responding to needs and opportunities in their communities, using the many assets that they have. 

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Who we are

SALT Alliance, founded in 2010, is an Alliance of six South African Christian non-profit organisations working in four of the country’s nine provinces. Each Alliance Member delivers their own programmes but with shared programme foci and some joint activities.

The Alliance facilitates peer learning and accountability, and community-based research and advocacy. Members also fundraise and manage funds collectively.

What we do

SALT Alliance Members currently deliver programmes with the following objectives:
1. To provide a comprehensive package of services for orphans and vulnerable children in order that they become positive and active participants in their community
2. To equip youth in South Africa with leadership and life skills so that they live a responsible, healthy life style and they become role models and change agents in their communities
3. To capacitate men & women to build stable families which become safe, nurturing spaces for children, women and men.
4. To provide health education to communities, and care and support to the sick, so that health in the community improves
5. To enable un-employed or under-employed people to become active participants in the economic system
6. To create an enabling environment for community groups (including churches) working in areas of health and HIV, income generation, food security
 
SALT Alliance has four cross-cutting approaches in their programmatic work:
·         Advocacy and campaigns
·         Learning and research
·         Prioritising families
·         Strengthening community groups

How we work

SALT Alliance Members work independently on programmes in the communities where they are based. Collective learning, research and advocacy takes place work through on-line collaboration, face to face meetings and exchange visits. 

Members also work together to run SALT Imbizos (meetings) to capacitate community groups with whom they work. SALT Alliance meetings are characterised by peer and expert learning sessions, peer review sessions, programme design and review, and times for general sharing and encouragement.

The work of the Alliance is facilitated by a part-time Secretariat of two people. 
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History & impact

SALT Alliance was formed in Johannesburg in August 2010 by a group of South African Non Profit Organisations who were all working in the area of Health and HIV/Aids and were recipients together of a five year (2011 – 2015) Dutch Government grant. Alliance Members mostly knew one another from previous joint learning initiatives and decided to come together as they sought, through their individual programmes, to work within the following objectives:

1.       Increasing health seeking behaviour and use of health services
2.       Increasing the role of change agents to impact health seeking behaviour
3.       Increasing performance in lobbying and advocacy related to health services
4.       Fostering human resources for quality management of community programmes

The main activities of Members in this 2011-2015 period included working with community groups and (among others) support groups, religious congregations, families, youth groups, health facilities and schools, assisting vulnerable groups to attain good health through disease prevention, provision of home-based care, development of change agents, access to health services, nutritional support, psycho-social support and palliative care. In addition to common activities and donors, members encouraged one another on the basis of their shared a biblical Christian world view and faith.

SALT Alliance Members have worked together through on-line collaboration, site visits and face-to-face meetings. SALT Alliance has come together each year on 2 to 3 occasions for a week of peer learning, review, accountability and encouragement. They have also worked together to capacitate community groups with whom members work.

With the end of the five year funding grant, SALT Alliance members have committed to continue their collaboration, with a revised strategy focused on strengthening families and community groups. 

Annual reports

Annual Report 2019
Annual Report 2018
Annual Report 2017
Annual Report 2013
Jesus said: 

"The thief comes only in order to steal, kill, and destroy.

I have come in order that you might have life—life in all its fullness."

John 10:10,
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  • Home
  • About
    • Alliance members
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  • Focus Areas
    • Advocacy & campaigns
    • Learning & research
    • Strengthening families
    • Strengthening community groups
  • News
  • Donate
  • Contact us
  • Member login
    • May 2017 Change Agents Meeting
    • July 2014 meeting
    • Feb 2014 meeting
    • Oct 2013 meetings
    • Member information