Hamburg is also home to the Keiskamma Trust, a non-profit organisation started to promote health and hope through art, music, HIV/AIDS treatment and poverty alleviation projects and education initiatives. The Keiskamma Art Project created the world renowned Keiskamma Tapestry which is an extraordinary 120m’s long and hangs in the Parliament buildings in Cape Town. It also created the Keiskamma Guernica, based on the 1937 Picasso Painting, but adapted to show the pain and suffering of the people in their village. The Keiskamma Alterpiece is a contemporary icon of how the human spirit can rise above adversity, and this piece has travelled the USA and Canada, and stands 4.15 x 6.8 meters, and took 130 men and women 7 months to complete.
The Keiskamma Music Academy teaches children the recorder, orchestral instruments and traditional Xhosa instruments, to extend the opportunity of music education to children who would otherwise be denied it.