Board Members:

Koos van Zyl – Chairman
Clever Shikwambane – Secretary
Fatima Abdool – Member
Solly Makoena – Member
Dr Salomé Combrink – Founder & CEO

Vision
To provide a mechanism through the strategic development
of the arts whereby disadvantaged youth are helped to become
part of the reconstruction process in South Africa.

Mission
To use the power of theatre and positive life skills as a holistic
and empowering process of transformation to help heal our
youth-at-risk and to do community development.

Target Groups
Youth in Shelters
Youth in Reformatory Schools
Youth in Prisons
Youth in Townships
Youth in Inner Cities
Young Adults in Townships or Inner Cities
Communities at large (parents, community members)

Management & Registration
  • Karos & Kambro is a well-managed and well-registered organisation:

  • Started operating in May 2000

  • Registered as a Non Profit Organisation (011-268)

  • Registered as a Public Benefit Organisation: Sect 18A (18/11/13/1854)

  • Registered as a Service provider (Vendor Nr: 1100007203)

  • A member of Proudly South African

  • Karos & Kambro is extremely well positioned in terms of BEE

  • Well positioned for tax benefits as a public benefit Organisation to add value to Corporate Social Investment programmes or philanthropic gestures

  • Currently working in three provinces in South Africa (Gauteng, Western Cape, North West) and want to expand its services
Since I started joining Karos & Kambro, my life started to change. Even my attitude started to change.

This project is so amazing to me as a young man and now I know I am someone.
The Art of Performance & Art of Life Program

The Karos & Kambro Programme is not only about the arts… It is an art-for-life-programme. In this programme, young people and children-at-risk are equipped for the art of really living.

The programme:

  • Helps young people to obtain new skills and competencies in different performing arts areas

  • Inspires marginalised, vulnerable people to believe in themselves

  • Helps them to develop their hidden talents

  • Helps them to communicate better and to open up about their pain and life experiences

  • Empowers them with new personal and interpersonal skills
    (personal growth and social skills)

  • Helps to create a value-based society through the vehicle of the performing arts

  • Guides wounded and vulnerable young people on a journey of healing and behaviour change through the powerful medium of the Performing Arts

  • Uses Community Theatre/township theatre to develop new artists and new audiences

  • Unearths their latent leadership skills: to help develop a new generation of positive young leaders for our country

  • Creates job opportunities through the Performing Arts…

  • Inspires a movement of creating positive community groups who take on projects to help make their communities better an
    more beautiful and caring.