Feed the Homeless Project
Where we live, the winters are really cold and wet. Bone chilling cold. Even in my home I freeze and dread having to get out of my warm, cozy bed in the mornings! I can make a fire and put the heater on, all in an effort to stay warm. My kids get ready for school while I prepare their school lunches. Working at the rate of a sloth I can’t feel my fingers from my toes. We crank the heater up full blast in the car and all breath a huge sigh of relief as our bodies start to warm up. Yet, as we drive to school we pass countless homeless people sleeping on the icy cold pavement with barely a blanket covering them. How they survive the nights and even the days leaves me without words and it leaves me very sad. No one should live like this. Yes I know it is a very complex issue and one that is not fixed with the click of a button!
But, I have to do something!
So, our aim is to provide the homeless with a hot, nutrtious meal, in this cold winter weather of ours.
Giving Children Dignity
At the beginning of every year, all children across South Africa need to buy stationary for the new school year. Stationary, books, school bags, school uniforms and school shoes are expensive. Middle income families struggle to afford these expenses, so can you imagine how much more difficult it is for poor people and those people living in shacks to afford these expenses at the beginning of each school year.
On so many occassions when I fetch my children from school, we see so many children walking home in the heat of the day, barefoot. It breaks my heart. No child should be without school shoes, a proper uniform and stationary. So I would like to raise funds to help children in the townships be able to go to school with dignity.