Fuel the Future: How Sozo is breaking down walls in Vrygrond
In Vrygrond, Cape Town, a single wall separates two very different worlds.
On one side is Vrygrond, a community of over 55,000 people with no high school, no clinic, no police station and very few formal services. It is heavily affected by gangsterism, extortion and high youth unemployment.
On the other side is a thriving business park – one of the most sought after commercial and light industrial hubs in the south of Cape Town.
My recent visit to the Sozo Foundation, an Alquity Foundation partner, showed how a focused, community led organisation is literally and figuratively crossing that wall – and why that matters for our investors.
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By Suresh Mistry