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Dear Friends,Over the past two decades South Africa Partners has strived to identify creative, practical, and cost-effective solutions to address key health and education issues in low resourced communities in South Africa. It has been our great privilege to lead South Africa Partners into its 21st year of striving towards Mandela’s vision of “a better life for all”. We are honored to do so while emulating the values and vision of South Africa Partners’ founders, and of extraordinary leaders such as Arch. Desmond Tutu, Hon. Albie Sachs, the late Ahmed Kathrada, and countless others who have been part of the long walk.South Africa Partners’ secret to successfully promoting systemic change comes from working with a network of individuals and organizations committed to a common goal. Through these partnerships, our initiatives have had widespread, demonstrable impact, reaching millions of South Africans. Whether it’s supporting a young child in reaching her full educational potential, or empowering an adult living with HIV/AIDS to make positive lifestyle changes, we owe much to our teams in South Africa and Boston for their dedication to transforming lives. We look forward to building on this success by collaborating in new, innovative ways to achieve results – across sectors, disciplines and geographic boundaries.As supporters of our work, you are part of a diverse group of international friends who share our commitment to South Africa’s future. You recognize our unique ability to achieve large-scale, long-term impact, and systemic change. You have provided guidance and support to advance our mission and shape our responses to challenges and opportunities. You share the philosophy that we embed in everything that we do – “Ilima”, the Xhosa equivalent of “it takes a village” – and you recognize that it’s through this collective action that communities build people and social capital for long-lasting impact.We are deeply grateful to you for giving so generously of your time and resources. With your support, South Africa Partners will continue to work towards a future in which every South African has universal access to quality healthcare and education as the foundation of a just democracy.

Thank you for joining us.

Ilana Hurwitz Jonathan Joffe Judy Bigby Board President Board President-Elect Executive Director

Andrew Ainslie, PhD Dean, Simon Business School University of Rochester

David Allen, MD, MPH South Africa Country Representative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Penelope Andrews, LLB, LLM Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town

Douglas Brooks, MSW Senior Director, Community Engagement for Public Affairs, Gilead Sciences

David Dolbashian Vice President, Treasury Services, Eastern Bank

Mitalene Fletcher, PhD Director, PreK-12 & International Programs, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Elmer R. Freeman, MSW Executive Director, Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.

Ilana Hurwitz, Esq. Visiting Law Professor, Boston University School of Law

Jonathan Joffe, SJD CEO, QTec Analytics

Joellen Lambiotte, MMPM Senior Program Advisor, Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University

Paks Madikiza, MD Community Pediatrician

Stephen Moody Director & Senior Consultant, Boston Trust & Investment Management Company

Bonisile Ntlemeza Teacher, KIPP Houston Public School (KIPP Generations College)

Nkateko Nyoka, LLB, LLM Chief Officer, Vodacom Group

Mike Page, PhD Professor of Finance and Management, Bentley University

Jacques Perold ALI Fellow, Harvard University / (Retired) President, Fidelity Management and Research Co.

Karen Shmukler EdD, LMFT Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, Public Schools of Newton

Ellen Sullivan, MEd Director, International Advancement, Phillips Academy

Nana Carmen Ashhurst Senior Director, Leadership Gifts, Children’s Health Fund, and Minister

Janet Axelrod Consultant

Margaret Burnham, Esq. Professor and Director, Civil Rights & Restorative Justice Project, Northeastern University of Law

Jackie Jenkins-Scott, MSW President, Wheelock College

Linda Kaplan, M.D. Tufts Primary Care, Tufts Medical Center

Rachel Knight, MEd Doctoral Student at Teachers College/ Columbia University

Jeanette Kruger, MSW Social Worker

Senator Jason Lewis Legislator, Commonwealth of MA

Lynn Meltzer, PhD President, Research Institute for Learning and Development (Researchild)

Susan Cook Merrill, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Associate Professor Occupational Therapy, Academic Fieldwork Coordinator, MCPHS University

Colette Phillips President and CEO, Colette Phillips Communications Founder of Get Konnected Networking Event

Marita Rivero Executive Director, Museum of African American History

Gail Pettiford Willett Consultant

Marti Wilson-Taylor Executive Consultant, Wilson Taylor Associates

SOUTH AFRICA PARTNERS

2017 ANNUAL REPORT

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2017 ANNUAL REPORT

We work towards a South Africa in which every person has access to quality healthcare and education as the foundation of a just democracy. Through partnerships, we strengthen health and education systems in South Africa from the ground up. The bridge we’ve built between the United States and South Africa has enabled an invaluable transfer of human and financial resources towards this ideal. We believe “it takes a village” – that through collective action, communities build people and social capital for long-lasting impact.

Providing Care and Support for South Africans at risk for and living with HIV• Our Integrated Access to Care and Treatment (I

ACT) program was adopted as a national model by the South Africa National Department of Health. We provide technical assistance to the Department to implement this model through the national LinkCARE program. The program ensures that the public health care system supports people living with HIV, TB, and non-communicable diseases to remain in treatment over the long term. LinkCare has trained over 795 Provincial Department of Health facility staff on the National Adherence Guidelines for Chronic Diseases and helped to implement monitoring systems to track progress.

• In September, a team of representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) visited Zondewater Correctional Services where we implemented our STEPS model for strengthening prevention activities to stem the spread of HIV and TB. Results demonstrate that peer education interventions are effective in terms of TB prevention and antiretroviral therapy adherence.

Increasing the capacity of leaders and managers to drive health system transformation in South Africa• The Albertina Sisulu Executive Leadership Programme in Health (ASELPH) has provided

executive-level training and support to 206 enrolled fellows and 86 health managers with post-graduate degrees in Public Health management and leadership; the remainder are still in the program (90 percent pass rate). ASELPH course content reflects the current health care challenges in South Africa. The course uses the Harvard case teaching method and also reflects the dominant global trends in applied public health education.

• At the September meeting of the Public Health Association of South Africa Conference, ASELPH leaders, in partnership with the National Department of Health, presented “Strengthening Health Systems through Servant Leadership & Quality Management Processes” in a session describing impact of their participation in ASELPH.

Supporting South Africa’s youngest children to reach their full educational potential • We partnered with Pick n’ Pay and Boxer stores in a pilot program to transform

supermarkets into places of learning and engagement for children under five. This low-cost strategy, in which conversation-prompting, child-friendly signage is placed throughout the supermarket, has turned a daily routine into a learning opportunity for almost 500 children in high-poverty areas.

• Five of the eight daycare centers in the Community Early Child Development (ECD) Network have advanced to meet the requirements for formal registration with the South African Department of Social Development, gaining consistent financial support for their work in educating the youngest community members. Over 450 children under 6 have benefitted from the Early Child Development (ECD) Network since 2014.

• The Community ECD Network entered into a new collaboration with the Department of Health in the Buffalo City Municipality to train daycare practitioners in monitoring children’s growth and screening for malnutrition.

• We initiated a practice-based coaching model to help daycare practitioners translate formal training into effective long-term practice in the classroom.

On April 29th, South Africa Partners celebrated our 20th anniversary at the University of Massachusetts Campus Center overlooking the Boston Harbor. Alongside 300 of our closest friends and supporters we honored co-founder and former Executive Director, Mary Tiseo for her two decades of work in partnership with local communities, government, academic institutions and NGOs. We also welcomed JudyAnn Bigby as she transitioned from our Board of Directors to our new Executive Director. We are pleased to announce the event helped us raise over $142,000 to support our programs and future work.

Over the last 20 years, South Africa Partners has facilitated more than $30 million to health

and education programming in South Africa.

In June we honored the life and legacy of Ahmed Kathrada with an evening of storytelling. We heard from many people fortunate enough to know Ahmed who celebrated him as an activist, change maker, and dear friend. Mr. Kathrada is greatly missed by all of us at South Africa Partners.

FY2017 REVENUE

$7,408,538

FY2017 EXPENDITURES

$7,147,224

6% General

Administration2% Fundraising

92% Health &

Education Programs

8% Individuals

80% Government

Grants & Contracts

12% Foundations & Corporations

FY2017 REVENUE

$7,408,538

FY2017 EXPENDITURES

$7,147,224

6% General

92% Health &

Education Programs

8% Individuals

80% Government

Grants & Contracts

FY2017 REVENUE

$7,408,538

FY2017 EXPENDITURES

$7,147,224

6% General

92% Health &

Education Programs

8% Individuals

80% Government

Grants & Contracts

2017 ANNUAL REPORT

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