OUR STORY
We build, buy, rent, manage and maintain buildings infrastructure for our own and associate nonprofits.
This infrastructure includes 7 mental health facilities, a frail care, a clinic and 3 satellite clinics in the Western Cape of South Africa.
Our US-based associate non-profit, USA4RSA, provides support in the form of fundraising, development and advocacy, which helps us sustain these facilities. Our specialized health and education professionals (a staff of over 120) provide quality care to over 300 low or zero-income severely, mentally, and physically challenged long-term residents and patients requiring full time healthcare and frail-care.
From a humble beginning more than 30 years ago, we have established well-run nonprofits in health (especially mental health) and education. Some are still part of the KMT group, while others have grown to become autonomous nonprofits.
In South Africa, we do fundraising through our nonprofit "Help Your Neighbour", a subsidiary of KMT.
In the USA, our KMT branch in Tampa, Florida does fundraising through our associate and autonomous nonprofit, USA4RSA Inc, an IRS registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
We also do advocacy, development and prospect research and strategic planning, to establish affiliations and associations between South Africa as a developing country and other countries around the globe.
We seek to create interpersonal ties as a way to acquire knowledge from the developed to the developing world and as a possible alternative to more formal knowledge transfer mechanisms and joint ventures. The 'enabler', of course, is new technology, science and methodology. Two examples of these affiliations are the United States Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA) and the World Association for Psychiatric Rehabilitation (WAPR) with whom our founders have been associated with since 2005, with visits and meetings in South Africa and Europe between the WAPR president and our founder, Roy Harris. In 2005, the South African branch was officially included and certified. Roy Harris was approached by the President of WAPR, Dr. Angelo Barbato, to act as head of the South African branch.
Almost all residents and patients have no income, little to no family support and no form or way of sustaining themselves. State capture, corruption, economic junk status and crime all contribute to our challenges of ensuring that these nonprofits survive the aforesaid and if possible, even flourish amidst it. To enable this, our future vision is to tap into international markets, not only for funding, but also for science and knowledge oriented practices in our fields.
KMT group and our affiliates have a staff complement of more than 120 employees.