Core Grants

To strengthen the environmental justice movement in South Africa.

To develop conscientised, organised youth as enablers of equal, just, and quality education. To do this, EE works towards progressive reforms in policy and practice, material change at individual schools, and politicised, informed, motivated, activists in school communities across South Africa

Universal access to quality early childhood care and education and the enjoyment of quality and inclusive basic education, resulting in improved learning outcomes for marginalised young people.

To realise the socio-economic rights of marginalised communities through improved access to services, more responsive and accountable local government, and more active and informed citizen participation in public life.

To use human rights to transform the Freestate Province towards justice, poverty alleviation, and improved access to basic services.

To cultivate community resilience to climate impacts and build social power through mutual solidarity and alliances with workers and the wider justice movement, to resist dirty energy and toxic production and mobilise the community agenda for open democracy and a just transition to an egalitarian and regenerative economy.