About the Donald Woods Foundation

South Africans are proud to celebrate their country’s peaceful change to democracy, as well as its successes in trying to help all of its people to live flourishing and useful lives. But millions of people are living in rural and urban poverty. Undoing the damage of decades of apartheid, as well as centuries of underdevelopment, takes time, and in spite of huge advances in restoring people’s capacity to thrive, many still live with meagre resources and struggle to eke out an existence.

Together with friends and members of her family, Wendy Woods launched the Donald Woods Foundation in his name and memory to support the needs and talents of the people amongst whom he was born – many of whom are among the poorest and most vulnerable in South Africa.