Huis Ten Bosch

Huis Ten Bosch’s vision & mission:

Transformation and Transparency. Huistenbosch's prompts the House Committee to actualize an impact on our community. The year 2021 will bring great challenges but there will also be exciting new opportunities as we will all, hopefully, be returning to campus. Not only does the COVID-19 pandemic hold many challenges, but we will also be moving back into our original Huis ten Bosch building and welcoming 96 first years. With 2/3 of HtB now consisting of newcomers, this gives us an opportunity to reflect and revise Huis ten Bosch to continuously guide us towards an HtB community of unity, respect, open-mindedness, and compassion.

What are we currently doing?

Stationery Drive: Any new or gently used stationary (especially pencils and colouring pencils or crayons), exam pads, writing books, pencil cases or even second-hand reading books are donated by students and collected by the respective Social impact house committee members of respective communities. (The idea is to include the cluster or even the wider student community.) The stationery is then distributed to schools in the Stellenbosch area.

Jars of Hope: During Welcoming our newcomers made jars of hope (basic dry ingredients for a soup in a jar) and we donated it to Food In Action Stellenbosch.

Sisterhood box: This is an initiative where Huis ten Boschers can donate necessities to other Huis ten Boschers.

Dignity Period campaign: Collaboration between HtB, SLSJ and various other communities where the aim is to raise awareness on menstrual health and collect sanitary ware to donate to the Stellenbosch Safe House, SU residences, PSOs and SU Social Work office.

What else can you do?

Community service has been an integral part of Stellenbosch University (SUN) for decades albeit in different forms and with shifting emphasis. This platform allows you to make social impact within the university's (7) CSI themes. Click on the links on the themes below to get involved in volunteering and donating opportunities of your choice.

Education For All

• Help Khwela Womxn with 50 volunteers for interacting with our whatsapp mentor bot. | forgood
• Help AfrikQuiz educational app with 5 volunteers for making social media posts | forgood
• Help Viva Foundation of South Africa raise R20,000 for purchasing school uniform for underprivileged learners | forgood
• Help Love Your Nuts Foundation raise R250,000 for development of an educational game about cancer in SA | forgood
• Help The Feenix Trust with 5 volunteers for referring a student who may need Feenix | forgood

Employment and inclusive economic development

• Help Find Your Life Enrichment Programme with 5 volunteers for finding companies willing to provide job opportunities | forgood
• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/connecting-job-seekers-to-opportunities-mandela-day
• Help Khuthaza Foundation with 5 volunteers for Administrative Assistant | forgood
• Help Project Literacy raise R250,000 for training 50 unemployed youth on Comms Skills And Maths | forgood
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/goods/donating-office-space-2-work-stations-npc-employees-

Environment and sustainability

• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/goods/donating-seedlings-compost-and-fertiliser-our-community-garden-in-woodstock
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/money/raise-r3000-for-a-love-garden-help-us-grow-nutritious-food-

Food security and health

• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/sourcing-advertisers-for-our-new-magazine
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/money/raise-r20000-for-mandela-day-feeding-our-children-project
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/goods/donating-non-perishable-food-esp-legumes-cereals-providing-breakfast-lunch-to-our-children-daily
• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/instagram-account-management
• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/creating-donor-profiles-for-our-social-media

Resources and infrastructure

• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/goods/donating-100l-white-paint-our-training-facilities
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/money/raise-r120000-for-roof-over-new-classrooms-at-the-viva-village-mamelodi-

Safety security and good governance

• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/writing-up-basic-partnership-agreements-
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/goods/donating-and-installing-security-items--protecting-our-safe-home-and-its-occupants-
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/money/raise-r30000-for-improving-safety-security-at-all-our-centres
• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/tax-affairs
• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/financial-health-of-our-organization

Social gender

• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/gbv-support-services-
• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/entry-level-job-creation-for-vulnerable-women
• https://www.forgood.co.za/volunteer/assistance-to-help-our-girls-and-women-
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/money/raise-r45500-for-10-sponsorships-3-month-women-empowerment-program-gbv
• https://www.forgood.co.za/donate/goods/donating-goods-for-our-pamper-packs-our-gbv-circles-of-support-community-womens-groups