DPV OUTREACH
Projects & News
Streetscapes gets a two-month funding reprieve
Towards the end of 2021, Khulisa Social Solutions was awarded a Public Employment Programme (PEP) contract with the City of Cape Town through the Social [...]
DPV residents help raise 67 items for those in need in celebration of Mandela Day
After days of cold and wet weather, the morning of Saturday 16 July was beautifully clear and sunny – just perfect for our Mandela Day [...]
What to do if you find discarded needles on the street
More and more DPV residents and business owners are finding discarded needles outside their premises. The below was taken from a post on Ward 77 [...]
DPV Outreach LAUNCHED!
On 23 March 2022, DPV Outreach held its inaugural meeting at the Service Dining Rooms, Canterbury Street. The event was featured in the media, including [...]
WATCH: Chantal Sampson used to be homeless. Now she helps other people get off the streets. (GroundUp / News24)
Chantal Sampson was homeless in Cape Town. Now as part of Streetscapes, she helps others get off the streets. Streetscapes creates work for homeless people [...]
GroundUp: Cape Town suburb tries new approach to homelessness
The Devil’s Peak Vredehoek Outreach programme takes a new look at a chronic problem By James Stent, GroundUp A Cape Town suburb has tried a [...]
U-turn: The Cost of Homelessness in Cape Town (Report)
Jon Hopkins from the NGO, U-turn, was guest speaker at the recent inaugural public meeting for DPV Outreach. U-turn, together with Streetscapes and MES (an [...]
Join us at the Inaugural Meeting for DPV Outreach – Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Date & Time: Wednesday 23 March 2022 | 6:30pm sharp Place: The Service Dining Rooms, 82 Canterbury Street, Zonnebloem Guest Talk: Effective Responses to Homelessness [...]
Daily Maverick: The garden in Cape Town where the possibility of individual and social change grows
By Karin Schimke, Daily Maverick Two years ago, Devil’s Peak and Vredehoek, two adjacent suburbs in Cape Town’s City Bowl, were as socially fractured as the [...]
Cleaning the streets in DPV
In our first newsletter, we mentioned that Streetscapes, in partnership with the City of Cape Town, received 60 stipends from National Treasury through the Public Employment [...]
People’s Post: A leg-up to the homeless
In an effort to address homelessness in the Devil’s Peak and Vredehoek areas residents established the Devil’s Peak Vredehoek Outreach (DPVO), an independent voluntary organisation [...]
A wrap up of the DPV Outreach Meet & Greet at the Streetscapes Rugley Road, 4 November
It was nice to meet you! Thank you to all who popped in at the DPV Outreach Meet & Greet at the Streetscapes Rugley Road [...]
Progress Update – September
Chantel, supported by the Streetscapes Outreach Team started on 1 August 2021, and she hit the ground running! On her very first day of work, [...]
DPV welcomes fieldworker to the hood
As an organisation, our first project follows in the footsteps of the Van Riebeeck Park Pilot Project, with the aim to provide support to unhoused [...]
Consolidated Report: Van Riebeek Park Pilot Project
Van Riebeeck Park, situated at the top of Vredehoek, is a beautiful open area giving easy access to Table Mountain. It has always been [...]