NPO 57/870

Contact details:
Office: (+27(033) 342 2091
fax: +27 (086 518 3601)
Mobile: +27 (0) 81 856 9187
E-mail: reachoutwithlove@telkomsa.net

Donations:
NPO Number 57/870
Account Number - 9191875622
Branch number - 632005
International Code ABSA ZAJJ

Blanket Campaign

Winter is a time of hard choices for the homeless poor in South Africa…
 
The bitterly cold winter season in South Africa is especially daunting for the poor and underprivileged who cannot afford to keep warm during these months. It is a harsh unforgiving winter for poor people. They squat around tiny fires lit with dry leaves, twigs and torn clothes, desperately trying to keep out the chill. Many curl up together, sometimes under a single thin blanket, bony bodies pressed against each other.
Many children have to go through winter with blankets that’s torn and has holes in them. They have to share blankets with their siblings, some have no blankets at all and have to rely on a plastic bag or box to cover themselves.   Their homes offer no warmth as there floors have no covering whatsoever. For these families it’s a difficulty just to have bread to eat, not to mention to be able to take a few rand and buy a blanket, 
Winter is a beautiful season but a dreadful one for all destitute families, children and elderly. It’s the longest 3 months of their lives 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.
We have situations where children even get into fights with their brothers or sisters over a jersey, some staying in garages, shacks. Most of them sleep on cement floor …..and a number of death rises in the winter time as the cold makes it difficult to fight against viruses and already illnesses, 
Even the elderly suffers just as much with illnesses such as arthritis, which is already very painful and gets worse with the cold. They will roll up in balls and just try and keep warm ending up not to be able to get up and find something to eat, most not having a proper meal to start with resulting in them getting weaker and weaker. We need to be the change, we can give them the strength we can lift them up by providing blankets, warm clothing and warm food. 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. Please help us to make this difference this winder in the lives of the ones who suffers so much already. The children, families and especially the elderly.



We do an annual Blanket Campaign each winter and would like to invite you to help us. 




We are appealing to your Organisation for help with the deplorable situation that exists in France rural area. Our families are living under extreme hardships, stresses and strains that they are forced to experience on a daily basis. The situation is totally unacceptable and no human being should have to endure the kind of awful, inhumane circumstances that these people find themselves in



We hope that you will support us in trying to make a difference in helping the Families. If you require any further information please feel free to call. In need our banking details are
Donations:
NPO Number 57/870
Account Number - 9191875622
Branch number - 632005
International Code ABSA ZAJJ

God bless you for thinking of those less fortunate.


"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children"
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela