One to One is a project initiated by B’nai Brith, a Jewish advocacy and community volunteer service organisation. The event is held annually in the Good Hope Centre in Cape Town with volunteers and participants coordinated by the Western Cape Forum for Intellectual Disability.

One to One provides an entertaining day out for over 6,500 people, including 3,500 children and adults with intellectual disability. Various service clubs take part in the event and man stalls to entertain the visitors.  Most stalls allow participants to execute a simple activity for which they win a prize and it is a delight to see the pleasure on their faces as they gather up their winnings.  The event is also educational for participants' volunteer friends, many of them teenagers, for this is often their only contact with disabled people.

Said WCFID volunteer coordinator, Tessa Wood, of the 2008 event, “The children and adults with intellectual disability come from as far afield as Worcester, Vredenburg and Atlantis to attend this day and we know they look forward to it for the entire year. For some children and adults, this is the only outing they have all year, and our photographs of happy faces is all the proof we need that the day is worth every droplet of blood, sweat and tears shed by the organisers.”

 In August  2008, Newlands Rotary's 11th year at One to One, the Club's popular photo stall

caused a minor traffic jam as participants queued to be ‘snapped’ at the event.

Newlands Rotary Project Coordinator - Don Waller