Who We Are

Joint Aid Management (JAM) is a South African-founded registered non-profit,humanitarian relief and development organization with 30 years of experience in relief and sustainable development. 

JAM's programs focus on nutritional feeding, school feeding, assistance to orphans and vulnerable children, the provision of water and sanitation, as well as skills development, community training on agricultural development, income generation projects and HIV/AIDS programming. 

JAM strongly believes that without education, there can be no development. Effective education is only attained through the quality of schooling and most importantly, adequate nutrition, which allows a child to effectively focus, retain, and apply what is being learned. JAM currently assists more than 700,000 children through nutritional feeding programs, health and social welfare programs.

Our Story

JAM began in 1984 after its founder, Peter Pretorius, became stranded in an area called Pambarra in Mozambique. Peter was at a food distribution centre for 10 days without food or a change of clothes. 

There was no food at the centre, only 34,000 starving people. Every day more than 30 people died and he helped bury them in shallow trench graves. 

Broken by the reality of this suffering, Peter was filled with a resolve to feed and help as many people as possible. Now, more than two decades later, Joint Aid Management is making a difference to hundreds of thousands of lives in 7 African countries: Angola, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe.

Our Vision

JAM's vision is to help Africa help itself by contributing toward the alleviation of poverty through sustainable development programs. 

Our mission is to achieve our vision in Africa through:

• Offering a professional, dignified solution to the poor.

• Helping to develop people through education and development programs.

• Meeting the nutritional and educational needs of children.

• Providing sustainable water and sanitation solutions.

• Meeting people's needs in a time of crisis.

• Operating all aid activities on a fully inclusive basis, not discriminating on the grounds of race, religion, gender or political persuasion.

Through offering effective, professional and dignified solutions to the poor, JAM's goals are to:

• Feed one million children a day through school feeding, therapeutic feeding and nutritional take-home rations by 2013.

• Assist communities with life-saving water and sanitation (WAT/SAN) through borehole drilling and rehabilitation, latrine construction and sanitation education.

• Equip communities with adequate nutrition and sustainable avenues for food security, through agriculture development activities with smallholder and local commercial farmers.

• Educate children, parents, teachers and community members on the effects of HIV/AIDS, prevention methods and care.

• Assist Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) with nutrition and education.

• Strengthen and increase the capacity of local communities through national human capital development, local food production factories and strong infrastructure development.

• Improve the capacity of African governments to initiate and operate national assistance programming through capacity building, training and macro policy development.

• Stimulate economic development through agri-business and other sectors to effect true development and sustainability within communities served.