Hope Now has had work in South Africa since 1985. It has built churches in townships and In Langa, Cape Town provided for the Kulani High School a sports field and a library. The work it did in Pollsmore Prison has now become two fully-fledged local charities. (Hope Prison Ministry and Transformation Trust.)
In 2001 a group of Christians from America visited Cape Town with Vic Jackopson. While there they visited a Portuguese speaking church for Angolan and Rwandan refugees. Ten children sat in the front row. The group were told how the children experienced the traumas of war. Some had lost parents, brothers and sisters and fled to South Africa where they were homeless.
It was decided to set up a home for all ten children. A property was purchased in the Goodwood district. While it has often been a struggle for the charity to administer and pay for such a project so far from home, the children have experienced a balanced home life in what has become known as Rainbow House. All were enrolled in nearby schools and in spite of prejudice and Xenophobia, and the traumatic memories of their homelands. Most have progressed  well. The eldest have now returned to Angola to make a new life for themselves and some are in higher education and/or work in Cape Town.
Rainbow House was transferred into the ownership of the Western Province Baptist Association. This organisation not only looks after the existing refugees but will also take in others as need and resources come together.