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Rotary Johannesburg New Dawn

The Rotary Club of Johannesburg New Dawn is supporting local charities involved with Health, homelessness, job-creation and education. Beneficiaries include the Rosebank Shelter, Nkosi Neighbourhood Foundation, Headway and Baragwanath hospital.

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MERCY SHELTERS FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE

MERCY SHELTERS FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE provide safe, hygienic transitional accommodation to some 220 people nightly.  These homeless men and women are given breakfast and dinner daily at an  approximate cost of R10 per day for the meal.  An additional 250 who cannot be accommodated due to a lack of space receive a cooked mid-morning meal daily.

The Mercy Shelters provide 3 homeless shelters in Johannesburg and also provide 500 families in Soweto with nutritional support packages twice a month.

The Shelters not only provide desperately needed short-term help to the homeless, but also equip them with vital assistance to enable them to become independent  in the form of skills training in basic computer literacy, sewing, beading, knitting and pattern drafting.  The Shelters also provide a social worker for counseling.