Stellenbosch University Engaged Citizens

Supporting, enhancing and enabling volunteering opportunities.

The Matie Community Service (MGD) is a non-profit organisation established in 1964, housed within the Social Impact Division of Stellenbosch University (SU), South Africa. 

The mandate of MGD is to support, enhance and enable volunteer opportunities to staff and students at SU. Most importantly, we are committed to the University's 2040 vision, positioning ourselves for the future and developing students into 21st century citizens, realising their full potential.

"We are excited about the possibilities of being relevant to the critical issues and challenges facing South African societies and communities. Our work seeks to inspire students to be conscious actors in the world.

It is about starting a new thought movement, fuelling new ways of responding to where we are as a nation and as a continent and re-igniting our imagination of what South Africa could be." – Ms Reneé Hector-Kannemeyer, Deputy- Director, Social Impact and Head of MGD

Thanks to MGD’s partnership with forgood, students at SU can use their academic curricula to make a change, through an experiential learning component.

How?

👉 Volunteer by clicking on the opportunities listed below.

These opportunities are aligned to Stellenbosch University's 7 themes under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

The SDG is an outline of critical areas the world needs to focus on to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all its inhabitants by the year 2030.