You have literally blown us away.

It a lovely day as we are approaching Christmas at Ammish Community Development. Thank you for choosing our Organization! Today we recognize our friends: On the 14th December 2022 “Miss Bacholeret South Africa” top 16 ( Tsakane) and One Heart Project (OHP) and Miss Koketso Lehabe (on the 20th December 2022) for donating grocery for our Orphans and beneficiaries at large at Ammish.

The passion and care of people like you keep us going, and we hope to make you proud how this food and sanitary pads to be distributed monthly to benefit local families and our beneficiaries who rely on your generosity so they can access nutritious food throughout.

“As the holiday seasons brings cash flowing to retail business, Non-Profits can get it only from the action of hands.”

— Masishaba Mlotshwa, Director

Thank you again for your support and kindness!

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On the 5th November from 9am to 14hrs we hosted a High tea party at KOL CAFE. Like 2021 we gathered women supported by their gentlemen who are entrepreneurs from different brands, beauty, hair products, fashion, wine testing, small businesses. They all came together promoting awareness in the name of fundraising for Ammish Community Development. This shall help to continue sustaining our programmes on the ground seeing that they are making a difference in the community at large. A make-up master class was also added to keep our guests engaged. They got to see and feel the products that they were encouraged to buy.

Speaker of the afternoon: Yvette Ratshikhopa

Yvette Ratshikhopa as our Guest Speaker, she is an award winning international life & leadership coach and Author. She gave a good lesson on healing from childhood/ past traumas,parenting, setting life goals and actioning/execute our visions and plans.

The main objective of this high tea, was to give Female entrepreneurs a chance to put their Name out there for a good cause/purpose in uplifting our beneficiaries for future outcomes because not everyone is academically gifted, we also need to consider our skills gifted one’s.

Impact and Outcome

The event made an impact, we achieved what we hoped for. Turnout was great as ladies and gentlemen came from all over soweto to support our initiative. Youth and young adults also actively supported the event.
And for those looking to recreate memorable sixties outfits still influencing fashion today: Our guests came in fancy dresses and suits that reminded us where we coming from way back. Sixties fashion never seem to go out of style whether you going on a party or costume party. They all came with few basic items, leaving accessories to imagination and creativity, with versatile costumes and unique memorable 2022 High Tea of its own kind. Thank you to all who participated and made the event a success!

Hosted by Masishaba Elizabeth Mlotshwa (Managing Director)
And Miss Keamogetswe Makhaya (planting a seed and giving back to AMMISH)

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Her name is “Masishaba” meaning the mother of the nation. It’s a name that carries a magnitude of responsibility to be the vessel of love, care, and unites people of diversity. Masishaba lives by her name, she is home to the homeless, a mother to the orphans, a mentor to the community members of Soweto, and an incubator of vulnerable children.

Masishaba is a social worker by profession and has always dedicated her life to community development. Living in Soweto, she was always unsettled about children roaming the street after school with some ending-up being addicts of substance abuse. Thats why she and her late husband realised a need to establish an NGO that will shape children to live a purposeful life. Unfortunately, her husband passed way in 2015 before the dream become a reality. The death of her beloved husband brought so many uncertainties about her destiny but within her, there was a light that shines amid the darkness of grieve and loss.

Founding of Ammish

In the latter part of 2015, she met a lady from Germany who helped unleash her purpose and implanted courage to go after her destiny. In 2016, she left her full-time job and founded her new organization called Ammish community development. Her journey started by partnering with a primary school in Soweto where she was providing after school care and helping children with homework. During that year, she warmed the hearts of the white city jabavu community in Soweto when she gave 700 children Christmas gifts. This was the first time happening in the community and it is a joyful memory that is printed forever in the hearts of the children.

Changes and Development

Her program was later extended to seven primary schools in Soweto where she deployed coordinators and educators helping learners with their after school studies and homework. However, because of the lack of funding, she lost 40 volunteers. Consequently, she had to stop the program in other schools and focused on one school which is Letang primary school and they are still assisting the school today.

In 2017 she converted her home to a community center and a home for the vulnerable, children from different backgrounds visit her home after school to get food and assistance with their school work.

Her organization also secured a partnership with the Department of Social Development and other local businesses to provide food parcels to vulnerable children in the community of Soweto.

Ammish Activities

Ammish community development also does community events. They have mother’s day celebration where all the phenomenal women of the community come together to celebrate their day. They also have Africa day where people come with their best traditional attire and they choose the best category. The event aims to encourage people to be proud of their culture and to also learn about other cultures.

The organisation also does educational tours, because they have realised that some of the kids do not know the history of Soweto, so the organisation takes them to historical places such as Mandela home so that they learn about the history of the country.

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