Dreamcatcher offers fun, interactive and participative lunch and dinner experiences along many of the mainstream tourist routes in South Africa, as well as overnight accommodation, community tours and participative crafting experiences in Cape Town, along the entire Cape Winelands Region, The Garden Route, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Free State and Mpumulanga.
The Dreamcatcher Foundation South Africa is a registered development trust. The Dreamcatcher Foundation raises funds abroad extensively for poverty alleviation activities in the South African tourism sector. The travelling operations arm of The Dreamcatcher Foundation, Dreamcatcher, has earned a reputation for on-the-ground grassroots commitment towards poverty alleviation. The organisation was recognized by the World Travel and Tourism Organisation in March 2005 as being One of the Top Three Organizations in the World in the category “Investment in People” – the only known South African community based organization to notch up such kudos as Proudly South African Firm of the Year 2003 (within Western Cape province category), Best Marketing Stand (Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa), and various other prestigious accolades.
The Dreamcatcher Foundation focuses on setting up a profoundly strong organisational network to service the growing trend tourism outside the traditional catchment areas, in other words nurturing tourism SMME development that spills into the rural areas, with benefit to the local petrol station as much as the corner cafe the local community homestay cooks the Cook-Up Kamammas, a branded cuisine experience, as The Dreamcatcher Foundation terms these community matriarchs who continue to dazzle visitors with their indigenous cooking and crafting talents.
The "Kamammas" (matriarchs in the communities) are visiting the marketplace with Dreamcatcher, who has spent a quarter of a century IN the communities, to build their confidence in dealing with the international visitors wish list for a meaningful community-enriched tourism experience. Its through the non-competitive building of new tourism products that add value to the current mix that one develops and grows a tourism that has a deserving spot for the likes of the Cook-Up Kamammas.
The philosophy of Dreamcatcher is based on What are the people thinking about the future and to achieve the 8 millennium goals agreed in 2000 by the richer countries, signed with the poorer countries:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
It has taken Dreamcatcher 25 years to build the Cook-Up Kamamma concept, which began when what would become Dreamcatcher Founder Anthea Rossouw was called by the dying patriarch of the Melkhoutfontein community at the Western Cape town of Stilbaai to assist empowering his people to escape the poverty trap, to escape literal starvation and develop the community. He called her his Dreamcatcher (in Afrikaans my Droomvanger) before he passed away. The initiatives of Dreamcatcher, whereby the women themselves become their own business women in their own businesses, are resounding on all the major tourism routes in South Africa.
Visitors to South Africa meet and stay with locals in their own homes and communities. They will embrace you as family and will proudly share their daily life and routines. You will be given an un-censored slice of life which is not only exciting but truly insightful. Join them in baking home-made bread, preparing Chakalaka (spicy and refreshing salad), fresh vegetable dishes and aromatic chicken curry or Xhosa chicken. Explore the community and township, share a story and drink in a shebeen, admire local artists and most of all listen to their amazing stories of past and present.
There are various possibilities to experience this taste of reality:
1. Alternative winelands tour in the greater Cape Wine lands region.
2. Home stay with Kamamma
3. By bike
4. By self drive car
5. Cook-up with Kamamma for lunch or dinner on a group tour
6. Overnight accommodation along most of the mainstream tourist routes for self drive or group tours of up to 20
25 years later, Dreamcatcher has a network of accommodation and places to eat over along the main routes of South Africa. Dreamcatcher has been a National Member of SATSA, the professional tourism services association, for almost a decade, we have all the insurances in place – and, above all, a group of serious community based tourism services who are making a difference in their own communities by serving tourists to their area. Thus: South Africa and Dreamcatcher can say that they are ready for the mainstream to come and visit the Kamammas in South Africa as Dreamcatcher is well resourced, developed, and professional and an authentic cultural experience. Not only Dreamcatcher, but over 50 locals on the ground have put years of hard work into this venture and are very proud to share with visitors from the United Kingdom. What more of a taste of reality is there?
Dreamcatcher is truly unique. Many will try to borrow their ideas and try to clone what the Kamammas do, however Dreamcatcher is proudly one in its kind in South Africa as much as in the international tourism marketplace.
The Dreamcatcher Foundation South Africa is a registered development trust. The Dreamcatcher Foundation raises funds abroad extensively for poverty alleviation activities in the South African tourism sector. The travelling operations arm of The Dreamcatcher Foundation, Dreamcatcher, has earned a reputation for on-the-ground grassroots commitment towards poverty alleviation. The organisation was recognized by the World Travel and Tourism Organisation in March 2005 as being One of the Top Three Organizations in the World in the category “Investment in People” – the only known South African community based organization to notch up such kudos as Proudly South African Firm of the Year 2003 (within Western Cape province category), Best Marketing Stand (Fair Trade in Tourism South Africa), and various other prestigious accolades.
The Dreamcatcher Foundation focuses on setting up a profoundly strong organisational network to service the growing trend tourism outside the traditional catchment areas, in other words nurturing tourism SMME development that spills into the rural areas, with benefit to the local petrol station as much as the corner cafe the local community homestay cooks the Cook-Up Kamammas, a branded cuisine experience, as The Dreamcatcher Foundation terms these community matriarchs who continue to dazzle visitors with their indigenous cooking and crafting talents.
The "Kamammas" (matriarchs in the communities) are visiting the marketplace with Dreamcatcher, who has spent a quarter of a century IN the communities, to build their confidence in dealing with the international visitors wish list for a meaningful community-enriched tourism experience. Its through the non-competitive building of new tourism products that add value to the current mix that one develops and grows a tourism that has a deserving spot for the likes of the Cook-Up Kamammas.
The philosophy of Dreamcatcher is based on What are the people thinking about the future and to achieve the 8 millennium goals agreed in 2000 by the richer countries, signed with the poorer countries:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development
It has taken Dreamcatcher 25 years to build the Cook-Up Kamamma concept, which began when what would become Dreamcatcher Founder Anthea Rossouw was called by the dying patriarch of the Melkhoutfontein community at the Western Cape town of Stilbaai to assist empowering his people to escape the poverty trap, to escape literal starvation and develop the community. He called her his Dreamcatcher (in Afrikaans my Droomvanger) before he passed away. The initiatives of Dreamcatcher, whereby the women themselves become their own business women in their own businesses, are resounding on all the major tourism routes in South Africa.
Visitors to South Africa meet and stay with locals in their own homes and communities. They will embrace you as family and will proudly share their daily life and routines. You will be given an un-censored slice of life which is not only exciting but truly insightful. Join them in baking home-made bread, preparing Chakalaka (spicy and refreshing salad), fresh vegetable dishes and aromatic chicken curry or Xhosa chicken. Explore the community and township, share a story and drink in a shebeen, admire local artists and most of all listen to their amazing stories of past and present.
There are various possibilities to experience this taste of reality:
1. Alternative winelands tour in the greater Cape Wine lands region.
2. Home stay with Kamamma
3. By bike
4. By self drive car
5. Cook-up with Kamamma for lunch or dinner on a group tour
6. Overnight accommodation along most of the mainstream tourist routes for self drive or group tours of up to 20
25 years later, Dreamcatcher has a network of accommodation and places to eat over along the main routes of South Africa. Dreamcatcher has been a National Member of SATSA, the professional tourism services association, for almost a decade, we have all the insurances in place – and, above all, a group of serious community based tourism services who are making a difference in their own communities by serving tourists to their area. Thus: South Africa and Dreamcatcher can say that they are ready for the mainstream to come and visit the Kamammas in South Africa as Dreamcatcher is well resourced, developed, and professional and an authentic cultural experience. Not only Dreamcatcher, but over 50 locals on the ground have put years of hard work into this venture and are very proud to share with visitors from the United Kingdom. What more of a taste of reality is there?
Dreamcatcher is truly unique. Many will try to borrow their ideas and try to clone what the Kamammas do, however Dreamcatcher is proudly one in its kind in South Africa as much as in the international tourism marketplace.
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