Ronda and Jostina, one of our "private" sewing ladies - a domestic worker in the suburb of Norwood, visited Alexandra on several occasions in 2016 and on this day we distributed at Mmakwenadi Day Care.
This crèche is run by Lena and Johanna, w
Read more…We have, this year, enlisted the help of Gracepoint Methodist Church to distribute blankets on our behalf. They help distribute at least 400 blankets this year - this has been a great help to me personally, as Wendy is not in a position to help at th
Read more…This is a well run community centre as it turned out... combining help for pre- schoolers, local children and local gogo groups. Our directions were somewhat "iffy " and we spent an hour going backwards and forwards along the r
Read more…This distribution was organised by Mabel ... she and Joel loaded up the KasVan one Tuesday on a very cold day in June, and delivered blankets and other warm items to more than 220 children in two day care centres in the Orange Farm area. Along with t
Read more…KELETSO'S DAYCARE- BUSHKOPPIES
Keletso's Daycare is in a different part of the Bushkoppies Informal Settlement from Happy Feets, which we visited a few weeks earlier.
Kelstso, herself,came to direct us in having left the children in the c
Read more….... from Ntirisano we found our way around the houses to Little Toddlers
with the help of the delightful young "Cleopatra" !
A beautifully run daycare centre, though by now the cool early morning air
had become BAKING HOT and the children were in a
Read more… At last we managed to get the boxes of stationery delivered in Cape Town to Little Libraries run by Camille. You can see from her letter at the bottom how THRILLED she was with all the stuff and enthusiastic to get delivering. She has a FB pa
WARNING : SOME OF THE CONDITIONS IN THIS REPORT MIGHT BE UPSETTING, BUT SOMETIMES IT IS IMPORTANT FOR KAS SUPPORTERS TO SEE THE TRUTH OF SOME SITUATIONS.
Thembalihle is near Lenasia, the formerly "Indians-only" community from apartheid days. In th
Read more…On this particular morning we had organised to distribute to a couple of Lindi's contacts.
Always an interesting exercise because we need to allocate an extra hour always towards the inevitability of becoming hopelessly lost on the way to our venue
Mapetla is fairly close to where Wandi lives and she had been contacted by
Nombusa who asked to receive squares for a gogo group in her area ... so we
loaded up some bags of blanket packs and, after visiting Bushkoppies, popped
in to meet up wit
Read more…This was our first visit ever to Bushkoppies, an area on the main N12 highway to the South Western mining areas of Gauteng and on the route I take every time to get to Lindi and Wandi's homes in Soweto.
It took us a long while to actually find Happy
Read more…This was one of our few visits to the Alexandra which is a poor, angry area situated alongside one of the most affluent northern suburbs of Johannesburg and established as a dormitory township for maidservants and other workers serving local domestic
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