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Community Outreach programme

The focus of the programme is to offer relief services to families and individuals in a number of large, poor rural communities in the area southeast of Johannesburg, where the provinces of Mpumalanga, Gauteng and Free State come together: Grootvlei;  Siyathemba (near Balfour), Nthoroane (near Greylingstad) – all in Mpumalanga province – and Qalabothja (near Villiers) and Cornelia, across the provincial border in Free State. This area is often referred to as a ‘forgotten’ part of the country because of its scant infrastructure and lack of large-scale industry. The Topsy Foundation is the only organisation of its kind with an active presence in these places.

Topsy also offers relief services to people from several smaller communities, including Tweeling, Frankfort, and Heidelberg.


The emphasis is on medical and social care and the programme is run by a team of doctors, nurses, social workers and trained fieldworkers.

The Community Outreach Programme consists of several projects, which together benefit a monthly average of over 6,000 people (including relatives in the same households as people attending the clinic), giving them access to medical and social welfare services that they would otherwise not have.  Over 4,500 separate individuals were direct beneficiaries of the various projects in the single month of May 2009.