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Gabriella Kennedy Fundraiser - Concert in aid of raising funds to help Gaby fight cancer! Gaby has been diagnosed with a very aggressive form of childhood cancer. This family has nothing, her mother is the breadwinner, she supports the family on just a part time job and the father is unemployed. They are not fortunate enough to have a medical aid and therefore have no other option but to make use of government hospitals. The treatment and care at these hospitals is not completely free and some important scans have to be done privately at great costs. These huge medical expenses just add to an already difficult situation, as the parents are currently separated and soon to be divorced.
Maureen runs a creche in Diepsloot - Bambi Care. Her passion for children and the dire need she saw in her community prompted her to start the crèche in 2006.
Please help us save our animals - we will be deeply grateful for any help that you can give us
Hi All, I would like to introduce an amazing woman and her family. Nomonde looks after 32 abandoned and HIV/AIDS children aged around 4 months to 9 years. She does this with help from her 3 grown up children. They do most things themselves such as giving these children love, food and shelter. They also pay for just about everything themselves including paying the rent (R6 500 a month plus water and lights), buying medicines and food out of their own pocket although they do get donations of food, but never know what they will receive. If you or your company can help them in any way she would be truly grateful. There are many things that they need and any help is appreciated and will help her to provide these children with a loving and caring home.
Please help homeless families
A group of 27 Zimbabwean families who were living in a building on a farm next to Oakfields Farm in Muldersdrift were left homeless and destitute yesterday when the building was raised to the ground by a fire. The building was completely destroyed along with all thier possesions, I mean EVERYTHING.JHB disaster management has put up a few tents and provided some blankets but this is very temporary. These people need anything you can spare food, blankets, clothes, pots, pans.......... ANYTHING
The validity of this story can be confirmed with Oakfield Farm or The Cradle News on 083-510-4745
If you can help please contact me, Roland, or alternately you can drop off anything at Tres Jolie and we will get it to them.
Contact: 011 794 2473 / 082 884 5979 or drop off at 22 Peter Road, Ruimsig.
Jo’burg Child Welfare is urgently looking for the following items for our children’s home in Soweto. If you can assist us in anyway, please contact 011 298 8565 and we will arrange someone to collect your donations.
SA Riding for the Disabled Association - While cash donations are always required, there are many other ways to contribute, from the feed room to the off in-kind donations. You can volunteer your time, voluntary instructor, leave a bequest, etc. Tel: 011 958 5044 or 072 479 7317 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit their website
Scatterlings is a dynamic player in the South African Early Childhood development sector, providing early learning for South Africa’s children, thereby addressing one of South Africa’s most urgent needs – the development of young children. Scatterlings offers holistic and practical owner, teacher and staff training to enrich their delivery of quality early learning development for children in their care.
By Sam Mokgopha, Coordinator: Outreach and Reunification and Assistant Director, Kids Haven
Much confusion surrounds the question of whether or not to give money to children begging on our streets. There are two options; giving and not giving. Giving means that most children living on the streets use the money they receive to buy thinners, glue or a video game. In the long-term giving money is a death sentence whereby children learn to be street children and leave their families without the income they expect their children to bring home. Not giving also means that many families will lose their only income as most of the children on the streets are sent by their families to earn money.
Thankfully, there are other options available to help street children that will result in a positive change.
Sunflower Fund - National Bandana Day - 12 October 2011 - National Bandana Day 12 October 2011
The Sunflower Fund is urging all Schools and Companies around SA to support National Bandana Day by
buying your bandanas from your nearest Pick n Pay and BP Express Stores from the 15th August. Round
Table Southern Africa will be assisting The Sunflower Fund with Bandana sales and bone marrow donor awareness across South Africa and Namibia. ARE YOU A DONOR? If you would like to become a bone
marrow stem cell donor please call the toll free number 0800 12 10 82 and register on the SABMR and
you could save a patient’s life. All it takes to Register is 2 test tubes of blood. Visit their website.
The Door of Hope - This is an non-profit organisation that currently has three homes – two in Glenvista and one in Berea Hillbrow. The home in Berea is also known as the Hole in the Wall where mothers drop their babies in a “shute” if they can’t or don’t want to look after them! The shute has a pressure pad and this activates an alarm in the house to let the Volunteers know that there is a baby that has been dropped off – sometimes these babies are only a couple of hours or days old. This home can accomodate up to 12 babies at a time. The other two homes in Glenvista can accomodate 12 and 30 babies and toddlers respectively. It is heartbreaking! The children are all here until they can be fostered or adopted.
I know that it is a difficult time for most families financially but if you are in anyway able to assist with any of the following donations please let me know and I will collect from you. The most important things are the foods, nappies etc. If you are able to assist with anything on the “larger items” list that would be wonderful but any donation right now is fantastic. They are also desperate for baby and toddler clothing. Please also circulate this to all your friends and family who might be able to assist.
Thank you for taking the time to read through this and if you have a minute visit their site
National Volunteer Hotline - 082 338 1170
Gauteng Volunteer Hotlines - 082 551 9892 / 082 773 9013 / 082 331 0786
Kwazulu Natal Volunteer Hotlines - 0800 005 133
Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand - 011 483 9138 / 011 983 7400
Weekday Volunteers Needed (Durban) - Reach For A Dream is looking for reliable weekday volunteers to assist with assessing and fulfilling children’s dreams. Must love children.
Windy Hollow - is a non-profit organisation that operates as a therapeutically based horse-riding center, we concentrate our efforts on the improvement or creation of physical and mental function in the challenged individual, therefore reducing the burden they place on ‘functional society’. Additionally we offer enhancement of cognitive function in children with scholastic difficulties, handwriting and concentration etc. Contact: Helen Du Plessis, Administrator and Riding Instructor – Windy Hollow Therapeutic Riding Centre 033-121 NPO. Tel: 082 975-5369 Fax to email: 0865255611
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or visit their website.
Earn Extra Money for part-time work - Teachers/ students/ Moms required to sell “School Ready Packs” containing Educational Computer Games, puppets and books. Commission structure and incentives. Own car a requirement. Call Carol 082 764 5955.
