Reach For Your Dreams Sport for Social Change, Gardens for Growth, Vocational Training, Social Skills Training, Homing & Reintegration, Community Outreach
We have been supporting dreams since 2000. We use sport, social skills and vocational training, homing and accommodation, subsistence horticulture, access to work contracts and social outreach projects as drivers for real positive change in our communities.
The Oasis Vision
We strive to provide opportunities for the youth to escape criminality and gangsterism through our sports programmes, offer housing and reintegration services to the homeless, assist impoverished communities with our subsistence gardening projects, and provide a host of outreach projects to engage, enskill and integrate our communities.
Why we do what we do
27% of people in Cape Town are unemployed, 58% of Cape Town’s population falls below the poverty line and 25% of children aged 17 years and younger in South Africa have experienced some form of violent abuse.
Those statistics are shocking, and serve as our motivation of making a difference. We believe people need hope, opportunities, and resources. Not everyone can easily escape traumatised and broken families, unemployment and poverty, the path to criminality, gangsterism and imprisonment, and the escape that drugs offer without some form of support, and we try, with limited means, to assist the most vulnerable members of our communities toward becoming more aware of and responsible for making wholesome life choices in the face of seemingly overwhelming hurdles.
Our beliefs & principles
- Vision: To empower youth & adults to become self-sustaining dignified members of their communities.
- Mission: To create opportunities for development through our sporting programs, training workshops and work opportunities.
- Objective: To reach the youth and adults in our communities, creating alternative opportunities for positive growth.
We believe that we can only achieve our goals using a holistic approach: we integrate Prevention (football & sport), Reintegration (supportive housing), Empowerment (gardening & informal work), and Education (up-skilling & training) in our offerings and are therefore able to aid and assist a wider range of people with the support they need.
Our Founders & Team
Founded by "Uncle" Cliffy and "Aunty" Anthea, the Oasis NPO is committed to making a difference by uplifting communities and fostering social values. They are at the heart of our operations and work tirelessly to uplift the overlooked and vulnerable.
Clifford Martinus
Oasis Founder
Anthea Martinus
Oasis Co-Founder
Lynn Damons
Head: Administration
Bongani Mathiso
Head: Coaching
Nick Phillips
Head: Finance
Robin van Dieman
Head: MarketingOur Programmes
Each of the programmes we offer serves a distinct purpose and when combined together form a life journey our clients can embark on to lead to more fulfilling, meaningful and rewarding lives.
Sport For Social Change
Through our homeless world cup trials, regular weekly street football matches, our association football club, and pre-league Football3 programme we encourage enthusiasm, gamemanship and self-discipline in our young participants, offering them pathways away from criminality, drugs and gangsterism.
Homing & Reintegration
Our supportive housing programme offers a safe place place for true changefor displaced and homeless individuals to belong to a small community and home, teaching them valuable social and interpersonal skills. In the long run we aim to reunite and re-integrate with alienated and families they have lost contact with. our members into society and stop them from taking drugs.
Gardens For Growth
Oasis offeres a programme of subsistence gardening to schools and households in the community. This initiative offers an alternative to begging and encourage people to provide food for themselves through their labours and regain their dignity. They are also taught to market and sell their surplas within the communities in a co-operative way.
Skills & Training
Growth and development of individuals involves both social and economic engagement. The Oasis Skills and Education programme aims to provide skills to under-skilled individuals to enable them to participate in the informl sector as well as graduate into full-time employment over time.
Help Us Send Our South African Team To Seoul
This year's Homeless World Cup is being played in Seoul, South Korea. We need your help to send our team and offer them a once in a lifetime opportunity!
Netflix released the movie "The Beautiful Game" in 2024. This film shows you what it means to our players.
Champion Our Team!Testimonials
Words of gratitude and inspiration from some of those clients whose lives have been transformed through their journey with Oasis.
Kenneth Ayford
Supervisor
Change is possible!
Lynn Damons
Manager
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, be more, become more, then you are an excellent leader.
Robin van Dieman
Manager
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't, then change your attitude. It's that simple.
Morris Tafireyi
Garden Facilitator
This is a place where the broken are healed.
Clive Erasmus
Football Coach
Growth at Oasis is mutual.
Goals Achieved
Football games and tournaments
People reintegrated
People upskilled
Players sent to HWC
Communities reached
UN SDGs goals
Fundraiser Campaigns
We always welcome your support in order to realize future projects and expand our service offerings into our communities. See how you can become part of our journey to help our vunerable communities reach for their dreams and help build a better world.
SA Homeless World Cup Team, 2024
Help to send a South African team to the 2024 HWC tournament in Seoul, South Korea
Frequently Asked Questions
Contact
Please feel free to contact us with any questions, thoughts or opinions regarding our organisation. Feedback is always valued and confidentiality is strictly endorsed. Your contact details will never be shared with 3rd parties or used for solicitation.
Location:
Oasis Business Park, Schaapkraal Rd, Philippi, Cape Town
Email:
info@oasisplace.co.za
Call:
+27 (21) 705 0059
Open Hours:
Mon-Fri: 08AM - 16PM