The International Kolping Society is a catholic social organization founded by Adolph Kolping. The members create a family-like and life accompanying community. The International Kolping Society promotes through education and activities the development of its members in many fields of the daily life. It consists of local Kolping families which form diocesan or regional organizations and National Kolping Societies.

The structure of the Kolping Society in South Africa is as follows:

1.    The basic structure of the Kolping Society is the local Kolping Families. These Families are the branches initiated at Parish/sub-Parish level.

2.    The National Board of Directors leads the Kolping Society in accordance with the objectives of its program and its own constitution

3.    OPERATING TREE

Kolping Goals & Projects

By virtue of our programs, Kolping aims to:

• enable our members to prove themselves as Christians in the word
• in their profession, marriage and family, in the Church, society and state
• to offer help to its members and to the society as a whole
• to promote the common good in the Christian spirit through the active participation of its members, individually or as a group, and to take part in the continuing improvement and humanization of the society.