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Going the extra mile for children in the wildernes

Driving through Africa to support Children in the Wilderness

End of 2009

Brave desperately needs R50,000 to commence its activities for 2010.  In the past year it has:

- Made and then given away over 1 500 Brave Bed Bath Soaps

 - Made and given away & over 1 000 bottles of pure, organic essential & Ayurvedic Brave Oil

 - Produced ALL Brave Products by hand on its Brave Volunteer days

 -  Made & sponsored the cost of 10 neck pillows, !5 bolsters, 8 blocks, 20 remedial benches & 5 yoga mats

 - Fully sponsored over 150 ‘one on one’ Remedial Yoga Therapy sessions for those who couldn’t afford a donation, including two homeless warriors with severe disabilities

  - Subsidised a further 270 ‘one on one’ sessions by topping up smaller donations

 - Help a Brave raise R58 000, the price of a motorised wheelchair

  - Sponsored 68 Trauma Counselling visits by Braves to those in need, in hospitals and at home, at the request of their nursing staff and family

 - Made over 100 hospital visits to existing Brave Warriors, enabling their therapy & Recovery to continued

  - Subsidised 30 Kinesiology, 10 aqua therapy & 30 homeopathy sessions

  - Contributed over 40  one and a half hour remedial massages

  - Supplemented the production cost of all Brave Products at the Foundation, as well as, in our 6 hospital retail outlets thereby making sure they remain affordable to all

  - Provide training through workshops to Braves throughout the year as well as, 4 intensive Recovery workshops to other NGO’s, including Governments Home Carers & the UN’s newly launched centre for ‘Women & Child Abuse’ in Mitchell’s Plain

Please help the organisation to continue this amazing work.

One Million Sustainability Challenge

One million rand in one year! The challenge is for each person to donate a minimum of R1 in our aim to raise a R1 000 000.00 in a year for STEPP.

R1 000 000.00 is to create a sustainable financial base for the provision of education in the fields of Maths, Science, English Literacy, Pre-School colour and number matching and sequencing skills.

SUSTAINABILITY is the name of this challenge game!

Faces of Hope- The Ultimate Gift Screening

The Ultimate Gift Screening fund raiser for Faces of Hope was a great success. Faces of Hope would like to thank all those involved a great evening was had by all.

Mad Hatters Tea Party and Alice in Wonderland 3D M

Join me for Tea and a Movie?

Details
Date: Sunday 7th March 2010
Time: 14:30 for 15:00 –don’t be late or you’ll be called naughty!
Venue: Camelot Houghton, then Ster-Kinekor, The Zone, Rosebank
Dress code: Strictly Mad as a Hatter & Wonderland Inspired!
Donation: R220 per person (includes donation, fantastical Tea Party refreshments and 3D movie on release weekend) All proceeds in aid of Faces of Hope Foundation.

RSVP essential: contact me in a hurry to confirm you’ll be at my Mad Tea Party- I have limited seats you know!

Mad Hatter Telana on jozi7degrees@gmail.com or 083 730 2979

Just Footpints

I am currently working on ways to help the Just Footprints Foundation. Just Footprints is a sister organization to Paul Newman's Association of the Hole in the Wall Camps: camps designed for kids with life threatening diseases. One of the projects we are exploring is bringing a progam that I created called Project Outlook to Just Footprints. Project Outlook teaches kids classical photography and lets them photograph their world from their viewpoint. Kids dealing with life threatening illneses do amazing work. Project Outlook is one of the few times in their life that they get ownership and control of how people get to see them. Because of their medical or social environments the world is always trying to control what they can and can not do. Imagine sitting in hospital for weeks on end undergoing chemo therapy. All the while your parents sit and worry while your friends play outside. Project Outlook enables these wonderful children to find their own "voice" and create powerful imagery about how they view the world.

Please help to bring this wonderful program to Africa and to help the Just Footprints Foundation. All of the money donated through this on-going event goes to the Just Footprints Foundation. I will be visiting the Just Footprints Camp in April of 2010.

Business Skills Training for the Disabled

The CBM Training and Association for the Physically Disabled Project to Provide Business Skills training to People with a Disability

It is one of South Africa’s aims to incorporate more people with disabilities into the workforce to give them the opportunity and dignity of contributing to society on equal terms. However, the Association for the Physically Disabled (APD) have identified that a major stumbling block in this process is that people with disabilities often do not have the relevant business skills or experience to compete with able-bodied people for a position.

CBM Training, a SETA Accredited leader in Corporate and Management Training in South Africa, and the Association for the Physically Disabled have teamed up on a project to address this skills shortage and call on business and corporates to help.

We will be offering a range of ten one-day training courses running over the “quiet” period of the World Cup in June for businesses to book their staff onto. For every delegate booked on these courses, CBM Training will take R1,000 out of the course price to provide 1 days Skills Training to one person with a disability.

Your company will receive the benefit of a top level training course during a business quiet period, the opportunity to claim back SDL levy, a Section 18a tax certificate for a donation of R1,000 per booking as a tax deduction and to claim BBEE certificate points, and most importantly, you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you are doing something POSITIVE towards assisting People with Disabilities to get the training they need to get a productive job in the South Africa Workplace.

The selected course include topics on Reception Skills, Presentations, Debt Collection, Time Management, Speed Reading, Negotiations, Assertiveness, Project Management,  Conflict handling and even Memory Skills.  There will definitely be SOMEONE in you organisation will benefit from at least one of these. All courses are priced at R2,250 (ex VAT) of which R1,000 will form your donation towards the Association for the Physically Disabled Training Project.

For courses outlines of topics to be covered or to register delegates onto these courses please go to www.cbmtraining.co.za/site/apd.htm or Call Erin on 011 454 5505.

Kitchen Build

The primary need at the school is a functional kitchen (pantry and scullery) and enclosed dining area for the kids. Currently the school is using a small container which has to accommodate four ladies and equipment. The children have to resort to eating outside.

Repair Windows

Teens - Haven needs to replace broken windows of various sizes

1000 BOOKS FOR NATIONAL BOOK WEEK

National Book Week takes place from 5 - 10 September 2011, and PawPrint Africa Project is launching a special literacy campaign to bring 1000 books in the Animal Adventures in Africa series to underpriveleged children living around game reserves in South Africa.

Your donation of only R65 a book (or any part thereof) will help promote literacy in sectors that need radical upliftment, as well as in communities that would benefit the most from conservation of wildlife. We always ensure that the books are directly distributed to the children who need them.

Literacy is one of the biggest problems facing our country today. A recent survey by the South African Book Development Council revealed that 51% of South African households did not have a single book in their homes and that only 14% of South Africans are active readers! By helping a child to learn to read, you give them hope in a better future and hope for their communities.

We thank you for your support and wish you a wonderful 'National Book Week'!

- The PawPrint Africa Team

Comedy with Barry Hilton (go on... it's for Charit

Child Abuse is no laughing matter.

Join us for comedy featuring everyone's favourite cousin, Barry Hilton, in an incredibly hillarious line up. This event is only open to men.

R150 pp (includes snacks).
Cash bar available.
Mens fundraising event (sorry ladies).
Tickets on sale at Cotton Fields Restaurant.
Or alternatively contact Razz on 078 204 0457.

For more info on how to donate towards the cause, please get in touch with Carol Borodinsky on 074 113 6838 or visit www.justus4children.za.org

Flea market fundraising Sale

Do you have any unwanted goodies lying around, taking up space that someone else may be interested in? Do you have handmade crafts, a business  that can benefit from extra sales, or goods you would like to sell to make an extra buck? Whatever the case, why not come along. You can erect a stall or gazebo next to everyone else and convert your goods into cash.

The event is scheduled as follows:

Date: 01^st October 2011

Venue: Grass area at the Church Square across Post office (N.G. Kerk Moedergemeente Bethlehem)

Time: From 08H00 till 15H00 (Everyone is urged to be at the venue by 08H00 parked and setup before 08H45 am)

Fees: R100.00 per stall and whatever the profit you make belongs to you. (Kindly keep the ticket issued to you on payment as proof of registration and entitlement to put up a stall/gazebo for the day).

To book a place: Contact Mr. Mofokeng on:  058 303 1651

 Or email us:  Ntsebe.mofokeng@vier-pfoten.org

FOUR PAWS Flea Market Fundraising Sale

Do you have any unwanted goodies lying around, taking up space that someone else may be interested in? Do you have handmade crafts, a business  that can benefit from extra sales, or goods you would like to sell to make an extra buck? Whatever the case, why not come along. You can erect a stall or gazebo next to everyone else and convert your goods into cash.

you are invited to put up your stall and sell your goods. Contact Mr. Ntsebe Mofokeng @ 058 303 1651 to book your place.

Time: From 08H00 till 15H00 (Everyone is urged to be at the venue by 08H00 parked and setup before 08H45 am)

Fees: R100.00 per stall and whatever the profit you make belongs to you. (Kindly keep the ticket issued to you on payment as proof of registration and entitlement to put up a stall/gazebo for the day)

Theme: Treasure the life of all Gods creations, big or small, He made us all!

Christmas Book Campaign

The PawPrint Africa Project's Christmas Campaign was launched on International Literacy Day, 8th September 2011. The aim of the campaign is to bring wildlife-themed books to underpriveleged children living around game reserves in South Africa.

Literacy is one of the biggest problems facing our country today. A recent survey by the South African Book Development Council revealed that 51% of South African households did not have a single book in their homes and that only 14% of South Africans are active readers! By helping a child to learn to read, you give them hope in a better future and hope for their communities. And you will give them a really special Christmas!

Adoption day

PETS adoption day

Come and join as at our next adoption day at Stodels in Belville from 10am to 2pm.

All different shapes & sized dogs & cats will be available for adoption.

Please feel free to drop off a donation - any donation is welcome and appreciated.

Please also feel free to come lend a hand and volunteer.

All adoption proceeds go toward the upliftment of less fortunate animals.

PETS Family Picnic

After a long years of hard work, come and relax with us. Bring your own picnic basket and your family to enjoy a fun filled day with us.

When: Sunday, 4 December

Place: Gene Louw Primary School

Time: 12:30

For queries contact kerry@pets.org.za or 079 8992 932

RSVP: anoux@pets.org.za

Help save lives this christmas

Help animals this christmas by stopping the continued unecessary breeding of township animals!

Support us by sponsoring a township animal sterilisation (R300) and you get to choose a free mug which will get posted to you!  

Email Stinelle at gumtree@pets.org.za with your name, email, postal address and design selection, ie no. 1,2,3 or 4

Through Africa

Casablanca to Johannesburg on public transport.