Helping SA supports families in need, safety houses for women and children, orphanages, old age homes, early development centres for children, and spearheads various charity projects in and around Port Shepstone, KZN as well as the rest of South Africa.

 

Helping SA was established as a non-profit charity organisation in 2008 and has since helped thousands of children, families, the disabled and elderly to improve their life styles.

This organisation takes a keen interest in finding the details of the circumstances of those they help, in order to bring about changes that will assist them to better their lives to the point where they can become as independent as possible.

Not only does Helping SA drop off food parcels and blankets to the needy, but they assist in providing care for children in order that their parents can go to work!

Once a year, Helping SA set up a poor family with a house, furniture and all the basics they need to be able to take their place back in society.

HELPING SA seek involvement with Councillors across South Africa so that they can help in all areas where needed.

You are also invited to adopt a family for a year, and provide for their basic needs through Helping SA.

HOPE FOR WARMTH

NOTHING BURNS LIKE THE COLD……..

Winter is a beautiful season but a dreadful one for all destitute families, children and elderly. It’s the longest 3 months of your life if you have no warm clothes, no warm bedding, live in a room with raw cement floors, holes in your roof and still on top of this you have to fight off the hunger that overcomes you….

Children suffer during the harsh South African winters

 

Many children go through the harsh South African winters with blankets that are torn and have holes in it; often they have to share such a blanket with their siblings, … and some have no blanket at all, having to rely on a plastic bag or box to cover themselves. For these families, it’s a difficulty finding bread to eat, nevermind finding a couple of rand to purchase a blanket.
We have encountered situations where children get into fights with their brothers or sisters over a jersey!

The elderly die during the harsh South African winters

The elderly suffer greatly during the harsh South African winters…these are the elderly whom the state believe do not qualify for a pensioners’ grant, and these folks can’t find employment due to their age and illnesses. Often forgotten by their children, such people live alone in garages, shacks, and back-rooms which have raw cement floors, holes in the walls, broken windows, and often no doors! These people suffer because they do not have warm clothing and bedding, most of them have illnesses such as arthritis, which is already very painful and gets worse with the cold. They roll their bodies up into balls, trying to keep warm, and end up unable to find something to eat, most not having had a proper meal to start with before the winter, resulting in them getting weaker and weaker.

In many of the care centres for the elderly, the number of deaths rise during winters as the cold makes it difficult for their frail bodies to fight against viruses and illnesses.
The media seldom mentions the number such deaths.

Help us to make the difference to the poor in South Africa during the winter!

How can the poor children and elderly find food to eat when they are too weak from the cold during the harsh winter season?
Let us be the change! We can give them the strength they need by providing blankets, warm clothing and warm food. Please help us to make this difference in the lives of the ones who suffers so much already. We assist children, families and the elderly across South Africa.

Elderly folk deserve to be feel special

We believe in making our elderly feel special, and to have them live a happy and blessed life for the time they have left on earth: they are our past, and without our past, there would have never been a future.

We also make homemade vegetable soup / stews and warm meals on a regular basis to provide for the elderly in homes, and for the elderly who are homeless.

The estimated cost to our winter drive Per Elderly / person is R2300.00 (about $200USD)

Helping SA’s School Project

Every day in South Africa, thousands of children go to school hungry, exhausted and poorly clothed because their parents are terribly strapped for cash. Starving pupils dressed in ­threadbare clothes and shabby shoes are caught stealing food from classmates – it sounds like a scene from a horror movie, but this is the reality of life. During the past ten years, there has been a steady increase in the number of pupils turning up at school without having eaten breakfast, or supper or the night before. Some are so hungry they have resorted to stealing food off others, some even stealing extra for later to feed the rest of their family, who are also hungry.
None of this is because the parents are lacking in parental skills or are poor managers of their budget, as they have no budget to rely on or earn so little it is a daily struggle just to keep a roof over their children’s heads, with living expenses going up and jobs getting cut on a regular basis. Although these children suffer so much, they get teased and bullied at schools for not wearing the correct uniform and not having the necessary school needs.

Helping SA provides these children and their families with food parcels, even during school holidays. We also deliver furniture, clothing, school stationery and whatever else possible. We also assist parents in finding employment.

Our food parcel budget is R1500 per family per month. Our fundraising asks for a donation of R100 which can be paid by EFT or cash. We issue tax invoices for all payments received as such donations are tax deductable (Section 18A) and a Helping Sa Hope ribbon we hope you will wear with pride, knowing what a difference you have made. Examples of what your R100 donation WILL do:

Feed a child for 3 days/ 1 pair of school pants/

dress and 1 pair of socks/stationery/

1 child will be able to take the bus to school for a week and not need to walk more than 6km. We hope you can find it in your heart to assist with this project.

We also hand out blankets and winter clothing to the elderly, and to the children and families who are destitute.

Helping SA’s Cancer Drive

Funds raised by the Helping SA cancer awareness campaign is used for children with cancer and other dreaded diseases in state hospitals.

There are many children who do not have pajamas for their stay in hospitals, nor do they have much to keep them busy and their minds off what they are going through. Funds from this campaign is used to buy such children clothing and toys, and also assists with the travelling expenses for these children and their parents to and from hospital.

HelpingSA Branches:

West Krugersdorp

Green Point

HelpingSA are also found on the following websites:

 

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