Afrika Tikkun breakfast sparks game-changing partnerships for disability inclusion
Johannesburg organisations unite to end isolation and deliver real, lasting support for people with disabilities
Chief Ralekhudu Enterprise (CRE) has praised Afrika Tikkun and every partner who packed the Disability Partnership and Support Breakfast, declaring that real empowerment is built ‘with hands, hearts and collaboration’.
The powerful gathering took place on March 26 at Afrika Tikkun’s Johannesburg offices, drawing partners, community groups, government departments and NGOs together for frank conversations and practical networking aimed at boosting disability inclusion across South Africa.
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CRE stressed the event proved that dignity and opportunity are restored when organisations stop working in silos and start standing shoulder to shoulder.
Afrika Tikkun’s award-winning Cradle-to-Career model already shows what is possible. Children and youth with disabilities receive holistic, long-term support from early childhood right through school, creating sustainable change that lasts a lifetime.
The organisation is clear; this kind of impact only happens through strong, active partnerships.
The morning’s big moment came when Lana Roy, programme lead of 360: disability inclusion at Afrika Tikkun, shared the eye-opening research that inspired the entire event.
Four years ago, while working in Soweto, Roy discovered physiotherapists helping children with cerebral palsy operating less than a kilometre from another group doing the same work, yet neither knew the other existed.
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She then mapped disability organisations right across Gauteng and Johannesburg and found the same story repeating itself: dedicated groups working in clusters, side by side, but completely independently.
That discovery lit the fuse for breakfast.
“We are all trying to solve different problems, but we need each other,” Roy told the room. “Individually we are strong, but together we can make a difference.”
Afrika Tikkun said the partnerships forged at the breakfast will now become the driving force behind smarter, more practical support for people with disabilities, turning good intentions into genuine, life-changing results across communities.
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