Background to Projects

Disaster Response and Management

Search and Rescue Teams.
Medical Teams.
Counselling Teams.
Emergency Supplies in the form of food, water, tents, blankets, medicines and high energy and protein supplements.
Housing

Primary Health Care Containerised Units.

Careline Counselling services

a. Counselling

Telephonic
Face-to-Face
Individual
Couple
Group/ Family

b. Training

Volunteer Counsellor Training (VCT)
Facilitator training for women in abusive relationships
Life-skills facilitator training
HIV/AIDS awareness and education facilitator training
Foundation playskills in children
Advanced playskills in children

c. Continuous Development Programmes for Volunteer Counsellors

Monthly core group meetings
Workshops on topical issues
Workshops to promote emotional well being of counsellors

d. Support Groups

Support for women in abusive relationships
Bereavement support to children and adults

e. Community Educational Outreach Programmes

f. Specialised Services (Corporates, Organisations and Public)

Trauma Counselling
Employment Assistance Program (EAP)

g. Internships and Learnerships

Psychology & Social Work graduates
Social Auxiliary workers

Medical Support to Hospitals

Medical Equipment.
Medicines and Disposables.
Kitchens and food for patients.
Hygiene packs and disinfectants.
Ambulances.
Bicycle Ambulances.

Wheelchair Distribution

This includes ordinary and motorised wheelchairs.

Institutional Support

This includes various forms of support to old age homes, orphanages, facilities for mentally and physically challenged individuals, shelters for abused women and children.

Bursaries and Scholarships.

Winter Warmth

Includes the distribution of blankets, clothes and shoes throughout the year. The items are all new.

Housing Development

Food Parcels

Given as temporary support to the most vulnerable families.

Feeding Centres

Established in Gauteng and Western Cape

Nutrition Supplementation

This is the distribution of a highly specialised groundnut-soya high energy and protein supplement, a world first, innovated by Gift of the Givers, and utilised in conditions of severe malnutrition, TB, HIV, AIDS, cancer and conditions of severe weakness and weight loss.

Meat Distribution

This is a special project done once a year co-inciding with the Islamic festival of Eid at the conclusion of pilgrimage when an animal sacrifice is offered and meat distributed to the poor. We have our own abattoir facility in Malawi where 10 000 families receive a 6kg meat parcel each.

Education

Providing Nutrition
Distribution of Food Parcels
Developing Food Gardens
Providing Uniforms
Providing New Clothing
Distributing New Blankets
Providing Furniture
Distributing Stationery
Setting up Technology Workshops and Providing New Library Books
Supporting Cultural Programmes
Providing Trophies for Learners
Supporting Sports Programmes
Road Safety Education
Enhancing Infrastructure
Establishing Open Source Computer Labs
Providing Lifeskills Workshops
Special Projects
Entrepreneurship
Copier Machines
Early Childhood Development Centres

Agricultural Sustainability

Includes the provision of fertiliser and seeds to enable people to be food secure.

Water Provision

In the form of boreholes, irrigation systems, taps, water tanks and bottled water.

Entrepreneurship

Includes provision of equipment, supplies and skills to assist individuals become self-sufficient.

Jumpstart

An innovative entrepreneur programme for grade 11 learners.

Sports Development

Encouraging health, fitness and sportsmanship through various sporting codes including karate, cricket, soccer, volleyball and netball.

Hygiene Pack Distribution

Promoting hygiene, health and cleanliness through the distribution of personal items including soap, body wash, toothbrushes, toothpaste and domestic cleaning items including detergents and disinfectants.

Recycling

Various forms of waste material at our offices and warehouses are recycled.

Projects - Primary Health Care Clinics

"If the people cannot get to health services then the health services must get to the people"

This was the philosophy behind the innovation of the world's first containerised primary health care unit by Gift of the Givers Foundation in 1994. Cost effective, all weather proof, low maintenance, easily transportable, rapidly deployed, aesthetically acceptable and conveniently accessible. This was the

Food parcel programme to support nutrition in SA

Gift of the Givers started a national food parcel programme in 2002.A year later, they designed the food parcel programme for the Department of Social Development, who gave them R60 million to roll out 204,000 food parcels in KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape – a first for an NGO.

In December 2005, Gift of the Givers was the largest

Bursaries have been sponsored in areas of medicine, physiotherapy, law, journalism, nursing, management, psychology, accounting, microbiology, information technology, engineering, health sciences, tourism, occupational therapy and actuarial science.

In November 2005, we made a R1.3 million grant to the Department of Science and Agriculture, University of KwaZulu Natal for scholarships and

In 1997, Gift of the Givers established Careline, a counselling and life skills organisation.

Run from the Pietermaritzburg office, they offer a toll-free counselling hotline, face-to-face counselling, life skills and facilitation of support groups. They also present public lectures on pressing issues and they train their own counsellors.

They deal with between 300 and 400 telephonic and

Clean, pure water is an essential element to sustain good health. We continuously sink boreholes in various parts of the country to provide access to water, especially in rural areas.

In Malawi, we built 40 waterwells for the development of agricultural projects.

We have provided drinking water in South Africa and Malawi, and this year plan to extend this project to Senegal.

Boreholes /

Agricultural Projects

In Malawi, we built 40 waterwells for the development of agricultural projects.

In South Africa, we provide farmers’ packs containing essential agricultural inputs such as water purification tablets, seeds, fertilizers and basic tools to subsistence farmers and agricultural groups. The agricultural groups consist of mainly women’s groups that do their own farming. There are

Projects - Road Safety

Scholar Patrol Project and AwarenessCampaign

Thedevelopment of the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department (JMPD) scholarpatrol project was initiated in 1982 after the Department of Education enteredinto a memorandum of understanding with schools and the previous traffic department. This came as a result of a need:

To make children conscious of safety without exposing them to a dangerous

Projects - Adoption of the Adelaide Tambo School for the Physically Challenged

After a successful two-year relationship, this year, Gift of the Givers has officially adopted the Adelaide Tambo School for the Physically Challenged, in Soweto, Johannesburg.

Adelaide Tambo School provides education to 380 physically challenged learners from Grade R to Grade 12 and caters for day scholars and 150 boarders. It also offers pre-vocational skills to learners who are

Recent studies have indicated an alarming trend among children - that sedentary activity like excessive indulgence in television, play stations and mobile phone games and chatrooms are resulting in a lack of exercise, impacting on the long-term health of children.

In 2005, we made a humble beginning in promoting sports development and supported one team with a volleyball kit. In 2006, we