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Highway Mail – 19th August 2020

Thank you to the wonderful team at Highway Mail for this fantastic coverage of our Chicken Stew for the Soul soup kitchen collaboration with Stoker’s Arms Kloof – we are super excited to launch this food aid drive 19 weeks into national lockdown! At this point, we have delivered and overseen nearly 400 tons of food aid, clothing and supplies […]

#HopeIsContagious

Since the announcement of national lockdown 17 weeks ago, we have been working fervently, ramping up our community footprint by collaborating and partnering with other community organisations and NPO’s to get as much aid and relief as possible directly into the hands of those that need it most – please see our Covid19 relief page for detailed account of community […]

Hope is Contagious – Drive 2

With just 24 hours to go before our country goes into lock down, our shops are overrun with people trying to stock up on essentials (and some non-essentials) for the next 21 days – uncertainty is reality at this point. It’s precisely at this point that our hearts are aching for the Gogos and children in the community that won’t have the luxury […]

Hope is Contagious – Drive 1

As we are all preparing for our Nation’s Lock down on Thursday night, we wanted to spread a little hope, love and relief into our community to those in Homes for the Edlerly, Childrens Homes and centres in dire need of a little support. Grateful thanks to a fun and wonderful team of helpers, all correctly sanitized, dressed and keeping […]

Community connectors

We love our outreach work and when we don’t have a project planned for dates that suit teams wanting to help,we also love being able to be connectors in the community so when Lynn and the volunteer team from Citylights Church – Durban messaged on the 11th February wanting to reach out to the community to our elderly on the 22nd, we […]

Back to School visit 5 – Umthombomuhle, Cliffdale

Absolutely powerful message this morning for the learners at Umthombomuhle Intermediate School as we took our 5th #Back2School2020 visit out into rural Cliffdale as our beautiful volunteer crew gave all the Grade 8 and 9 scholars schoolbags filled with stationery and toiletries joined by community heart and world renowned author, storyteller and poet: Dr Gcina Mhlophe “Be soldiers. Work hard study hard. […]

Westville Rotary at it again!

Our Co-ordinator Kim caught up with some of the wonderful ladies from Westville Rotary this morning as they handed over nearly a ton (about R70 000 worth!!) of groceries from their drive in support of our #BlessAGranny2019 this weekend at Westville Spar and Pick ‘n Pay Massive thanks to all the incredible residents of Westville and Westville Rotary Club for […]

Back 2 School 2020 campaign launch with LOTUS FM

We are so excited to be teaming up with Lloyd Paul and the Official Drive at Lotus FM for #Back2School2020 campaign appealing to our community to donate stationery for our Back 2 School visit to Golden Gateway on the 24th January and bless the 200 special needs learners with stationery they require for their first term of 2020.  We are […]

Bless-A-Granny 2019 visits Thembela Home

Volunteer Trustee Pat Horrmann and her sister Sandy have, for so many years, taken Thembela Home under their wing, forged such a beautifully connective bond with the residents there and delight in the Bless A Granny & Grandpa visit they arrange and host for them each and every year. This morning again they shared a beautiful morning of tea time […]