Ekukhanyeni is a non governmental organisation that focuses on community upliftment in the poverty stricken informal settlements surrounding Johannesburg, South Africa. Our approach is rooted in love, service and compassion in a sphere of trust, respect, and shared responsibility with our programme beneficiaries. Since 2005, the organisation has been working from within communities to build resilience to a multitude of social challenges through its Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Food & Nutrition Security programmes with a strong emphasis on the promotion of local community mobilisation and engagement to both encourage upliftment and resilience, as well as to develop social capital and community-based resources. Each of our interventions aims to broaden the organisation’s effort in weaving together an holistic, family oriented approach to community development that promotes social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being from the grass roots level on up. We share our success with a special group of generous sponsors, passionate partners, dedicated staff and tireless volunteers.