Social Enterprise Development

social enterprise development

Through our Social Enterprise Development initiatives, we strive to be a catalyst for social entrepreneurship in Mabopane. Each of the skills training courses we offer include basic entrepreneurial information, encouraging our beneficiaries to open small businesses in order stimulate economic activity and growth in the community. We assist the entrepreneurs to grow their business in order to further create employment and training opportunities for their community.

We are humbled to have been a part of the formation of 16 social enterprises in Mabopane since our founding date in 2011.

4 baby creches
1 fruit shop
6 sewing groups
2 beading groups
1 bakery
1 dry cleaning business
1 arts & culture youth faculty

Read more about the social enterprises operating at our community centre...

kago-entle

Kago-Entle (meaning "a beautiful creation") is a fair-trade project of Lesedi La Batho, supporting and empowering a group of 12 female artisans in the township of Mabopane, South Africa. We offer beautiful gifting products handmade from local materials such as shweshwe, beading and leatherwork. Find out more or place your custom order here.

ratanang day care centre

A community day care service offering quality early learning, care and catering for 55+ children across 3 different age groups. The day care primarily serves teenage mothers, women accessing free skills training at our centre, and needy families. It employs three full time caregivers and is blessed with a further 3+ volunteers. Find out more about the Ratanang Day Care Centre here.

baruki

A sewing and beading group consisting of 5 talented elderly ladies from Mabopane who supply handmade corporate gifting goods to Kago-Entle, and make teddy bears for the ongoing Beares corporate contract Lesedi la Batho supplies to Lewis furniture company.

amogelang diphetogo

A sewing group made of 5 employees, male and female, contracted by the Department of Social Development to make school uniforms for surrounding area. They also provide quality alterations and tailoring services to the community, and make teddy bears for the ongoing Beares corporate contract Lesedi la Batho supplies to Lewis furniture company.