Rotary Spring Walk
- By: Peter James-Smith
- Short URL: http://www.backabuddy.co.za/rotary-spring-walk2010
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Rotary Spring Walk Sunday 5th September 2010, Modderfontein
I am walking 10km to raise money for the Rotary Club of Johannesburg New Dawn Solar Water Heating Project.
The Christ Church Christian Care Centre (5C's) is home to about 60 former street children and abandoned babies. The children are all at school,well cared for in an exceptional facility, an old hotel in Louis Botha Avenue, Johannesburg. The Centre currently spends R62 000 on electricity. Solar Heating would save most of this but will cost approximately R500 000 to install.
We are already sponsors of their Soccer Team and it has done rather well in the Street Children's League this year. We have sent one of their scholars to a Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Camp and we are helping with their library and their computer room. Putting in Solar Water Heating will help them so much financially and enable them to take in more children as they have the space but not the funds.
Donations
| Name | Comment | Date | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robyn Knocker | Goodluck Peter! | Sep 04, 2010 | R 200.00 |
| Anonymous | please enter a short message | Sep 03, 2010 | R 100.00 |
| Hay & Bang | :-) | Sep 03, 2010 | R 250.00 |
| Edward | Good luck! | Sep 03, 2010 | R 300.00 |
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. http://rotaryjoburgnewdawn.blogspot.com/ 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.
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