Our vision, mission and values
Our Vision
The vision of the Trust is to have hopeful communities where residents actively participate in the change that is required for them to realize their potential.
Our Mission
Our mission is to help end intergenerational poverty in the communities surrounding the Letsatsi Power Project in the Free State through the implementation of interventions from pre-conception to career.
Our Values
Our values guide everything we do. They are a critical part of our culture and help us ensure that we steward the funding we have to best serve the communities surrounding the Letsatsi Power Project.
Honouring
We believe that the potential lies within the people themselves. They are the champions, and we are the facilitators.
Optimistic
We are hopeful of a tangibly improved future.
Accountable
We strive to be above reproach and fully accountable.
Future-focused
We take a long-term view and work to see generations uplifted.
Collaborative
We believe that the whole is far more effective than the sum of the parts and that by working together with various stakeholders and partners, our impact is greatly magnified.
For the community
We exist to steward the finances of the community for their benefit.
Our Values
Our values guide everything we do. They are a critical part of our culture and help us ensure that we steward the funding we have to best serve the communities surrounding the Letsatsi Power Project.
Honouring
We believe that the potential lies within the people themselves. They are the champions, and we are the facilitators.
Optimistic
We are hopeful of a tangibly improved future.
Accountable
We strive to be above reproach and fully accountable.
Future-focused
We take a long-term view and work to see generations uplifted.
Collaborative
We believe that the whole is far more effective than the sum of the parts and that by working together with various stakeholders and partners, our impact is greatly magnified.
For the community
We exist to steward the finances of the community for their benefit.
Our Approach
Learn
We conduct research to understand local needs and opportunities and identify innovative interventions. We then reflect on lessons emerging from our experience.
Invest
We catalyse change with strategic investments
Connect
We convene implementing partners and community members to enable collaboration, connect people to opportunities, and encourage peer-to-peer learning.
Codify
We codify learning from progress and fail forwards to provide insights and data that influence the work
Influence
We communicate to build trust and local ownership. We advocate for policy changes at a local level to advance outcomes across our strategy. We use evidence to enable scale.
Our approach
Learn
We conduct research to understand local needs and opportunities and identify innovative interventions. We then reflect on lessons emerging from our experience.
Invest
We catalyse change with strategic investments.
Connect
We convene implementing partners and community members to enable collaboration, connect people to opportunities, and encourage peer-to-peer learning.
Codify
We codify learning from progress and fail forwards to provide insights and data that influence the work.
Influence
We communicate to build trust and local ownership. We advocate for policy changes at a local level to advance outcomes across our strategy. We use evidence to enable scale.
Our History
Ours is a story of listening, collaboration and adaptation to support a series of place-based, conception-to-career services designed to systematically break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.
Meet the team
Our board of trustees
Dikeledi Mokhoabane (community trustee – Soutpan)
Dikeledi lives in Soutpan where she balances motherhood and teaching while also serving as a trustee. As a teacher at Kagisano Combined School, Dikeledi fosters a passion for education, motivating her students to aim high for a better future. Understanding the challenges women face, Mme Dikeledi is in the process of establishing a supportive group for women in Ikgomotseng, providing a safe platform for sharing experiences.
Gladys Mokhobo (community trustee – Dealesville)
Mme Mokhobo, a native of Dealesville, exemplifies community spirit and progress. Beginning as a farm school teacher, she later became a T.L.C Councillor in Tshwaraganang Location. In 2011, she assumed leadership as Tokologo’s Mayor. Today she’s a key figure at Tshomarelo Primary School and a Letsatsi Solar Park Trustee, advising on community needs. Mme Mokhobo’s journey signifies a life dedicated to service, leadership, and community betterment.
Janet du Preez (independent trustee)
Janet is a development consultant working both in South Africa and internationally. She is a professional social worker, who has worked in many fields in the social welfare environment, including holding a senior position in government. She is committed to supporting and assisting vulnerable communities and families, and does this through her involvement in a number of community-based Trusts on which she serves.
Ameen Amod (independent trustee)
Ameen is a governance expert who has previously chaired the Audit and Risk Committees of the Department of Energy, the Department of Defence, the Railway Safety Regulator, the National Consumer Tribunal, and the Provincial Department of Health, and Social Development amongst others. He serves on the DGMT Board of Trustees,on the Audit Committees of the National Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, and on the Department of Public Service & Administration. He is married with 2 children and is an avid hiker and mountain climber.
Russel Davies (REAP representative trustee)
Russell holds undergraduate degrees in Law, Commerce and Theology, a Masters in Social Policy and a post-graduate diploma in Development Management. Following four years practising as an attorney, Russell has spent most of his professional life in senior roles with international NGOs in Australia, the United Kingdom and South Africa. Prior to joining REAP in September 2010, he was Director of HOPEHIV, a UK based children’s charity with project partners all over East & Southern Africa. In addition to his role at REAP, Russell chairs the National Bursary Support Providers Forum.
Sinazo Nkwelo
Sinazo is a Commonwealth Scholarship recipient with a Masters in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London. She is passionate about a human development model that holistically and systematically unlocks the potential of a life by investing in that life from conception through to employment and doing so within a context of a geographic location. She is inspired by her parents, who dedicated their lives to God and in service to their family and community.
Community Advisory Committees
Our community advisory committees are a crucial aspect of our first strategic objective – to cultivate community engagement and ownership. These committees represent the interest of the communities and inform the recommendations that the Trustees bring to board. They are best placed to advise the Trust of relevant community dynamics and help us to better navigate community engagement.
Soutpan Advisory Committee
Dealesville Advisory Committee
Meet the team
Our board of trustees
Dikeledi Mokhoabane (community trustee – Soutpan)
Dikeledi lives in Soutpan where she balances motherhood and teaching while also serving as a trustee. As a teacher at Kagisano Combined School, Dikeledi fosters a passion for education, motivating her students to aim high for a better future. Understanding the challenges women face, Mme Dikeledi is in the process of establishing a supportive group for women in Ikgomotseng, providing a safe platform for sharing experiences.
Gladys Mokhobo (community trustee – Dealesville)
Mme Mokhobo, a native of Dealesville, exemplifies community spirit and progress. Beginning as a farm school teacher, she later became a T.L.C Councillor in Tshwaraganang Location. In 2011, she assumed leadership as Tokologo’s Mayor. Today she’s a key figure at Tshomarelo Primary School and a Letsatsi Solar Park Trustee, advising on community needs. Mme Mokhobo’s journey signifies a life dedicated to service, leadership, and community betterment.
Janet du Preez (independent trustee)
Janet is a development consultant working both in South Africa and internationally. She is a professional social worker, who has worked in many fields in the social welfare environment, including holding a senior position in government. She is committed to supporting and assisting vulnerable communities and families, and does this through her involvement in a number of community-based Trusts on which she serves.
Ameen Amod (independent trustee)
Ameen is a governance expert who has previously chaired the Audit and Risk Committees of the Department of Energy, the Department of Defence, the Railway Safety Regulator, the National Consumer Tribunal, and the Provincial Department of Health, and Social Development amongst others. He serves on the DGMT Board of Trustees,on the Audit Committees of the National Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, and on the Department of Public Service & Administration. He is married with 2 children and is an avid hiker and mountain climber.
Sinazo Nkwelo
Sinazo is a Commonwealth Scholarship recipient with a Masters in Development Economics from SOAS, University of London. She is passionate about a human development model that holistically and systematically unlocks the potential of a life by investing in that life from conception through to employment and doing so within a context of a geographic location. She is inspired by her parents, who dedicated their lives to God and in service to their family and community.
Community Advisory Committees
Our community advisory committees are a crucial aspect of our first strategic objective – to cultivate community engagement and ownership. These committees represent the interest of the communities and inform the recommendations that the Trustees bring to board. They are best placed to advise the Trust of relevant community dynamics and help us to better navigate community engagement.
Soutpan Advisory Committee
Dealesville Advisory Committee
Our staff team
Program Director
Collaboratives Practice Lead
Program Manager
Communications and Marketing Officer
Communications Manager
Program Manager
Our staff team
Program Director
Collaboratives Practice Lead
Communications Manager
Communications and Marketing Officer
Program Manager
Program Manager
