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Kliptown Tours

Project Coordinators: Bob Nameng

This project was developed to provide visitors with an opportunity to see Kliptown, an area consciously ignored or marginalized by Soweto Tour companies. Over the past few years SKY has had some success in encouraging tour companies to add our informal settlement to their itineraries. For those visitors who have had the opportunity to travel through our community, they have proclaimed the awesome impact on their lives. There is much more to do in this area.

Purpose: To use tours as a way to market SKY’s message to potential contributors by providing an honest, forthright view into the impact organizations like SKY have on the community.

Objectives:

To create and guide an engaging, unforgettable tour of Kliptown to visitors
To specifically market SKY by including a thirty minute KCYC performance to the Kliptown tour
To create a market for the sale of locally made bead and craft work through a Curio Shop
To educate people through first hand observations to our challenges, our solutions, our gaps and our needs

Outcomes:

To push SKY’s story outward
To build strong network bases through impacting unaware visitors
To realize the development of Kliptown as a community
To create a source of funding to various SKY endeavors through tour income

[Soweto Kliptown Youth (SKY): registered under section 21 of S.A. Companies Act. Reg. No. 2001/023176/08]