"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

Once a year, we conduct a three day meat distribution exercise. This is targeted at underprivileged groups who in most cases don’t have meat as part of their daily diet.

Gift of the Givers has set up its own modern sacrificial facilities on a farm situated in the heart of the poverty stricken Chikwawa district in Malawi. The farm employs engineers who insist that the highest hygienic

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

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

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

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