Ticket to Ride Foundation

The Ticket to Ride Foundation is a fully registered NGO working in the townships of the southern suburbs of Cape Town. The Foundation seeks to empower local people to develop their own communities by leading interactive sporting leagues, sports training programmes and educational programmes that bring together and educate children and young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds of differing races and religions.
Furthermore, the Foundation organises daily sports training sessions, and educational programmes, to help keep children busy after school and fill their downtime with enjoyable and educational activities that keep them away from the temptations of the street.
The Foundation runs Football (Soccer), Netball, Surfing, Arts and Crafts, English Tuition (Masiphumelele Township has one school for its 30,000 inhabitants) and Homework Assistance programmes, and aims to push a message of health awareness, good social practice, care on the local environment, and racial and religious tolerance through these programmes. The Ticket to Ride Foundation seeks to be sustainable in it’s approach and only employs locals from the communities it helps, offering them the appropriate training and assistance in becoming life coaches for the children and young adults of their communities.