General News

Southern Cape: Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk) Hartenbos donates R50 000 to Helping Hand Southern Cape for regional bursary

By Juanita du Preez

The Dutch Reformed Church Hartenbos has surprised Helping Hand in the Southern Cape recently with a donation of R50 000, provided the money is used for a  regional bursary. Read more…

Limpopo: Limpopo region raise their hands for children

By Marianthie van der Walt (regional organiser for Limpopo)

People raise their hands for something when they believe in it, like it and want to be part of it.

Solidarity Helping Hand’s vision is ‘uplifting through training’ and in 2012, we want to show communities in Limpopo once more how this approach creates hope for our future. Read more…

Gauteng North: Note-vir-Nood (Notes for Need) festival promises to provide fun for everyone

By Juanita du Preez

Solidarity Helping Hand’s Gauteng North region presents the Note vir Nood festival at the Heartfelt Arena in Thaba Tshwane on 25 February 2012. Read more…

Bursaries – A success story with plants: Charne Malan

By Juanita du Preez

The goal of Solidarity Helping Hand is to prepare youth for the world of work.

Flip Buys, executive head of the Solidarity Movement, said that if a minority wants to survive in a majority environment, they will have to excel in knowledge. Helping Hand’s Afrikaans Bursary Institute (ABI) is a good instrument to actualise this statement. Read more…

Make your lifestyle one with a rhythm – Helping Hand’s Rhythm Campaign

I am …

studies, sport, playing and sleeping

holidays, friends, family and work

church, newspaper reading, cooking and children

e-mails, projects, google and facebook

watching TV, gardening, having tea and pets

Is your rhythm truly in harmony with your heart and your calling? Read more…

Deon le Roux Jewellers chooses Helping Hand to give back to society

By Juanita du Preez

This Christmas, well-known jeweller Deon le Roux and his wife, Bokkie, put their hands deep in their pocket to make a huge donation to Helping Hand in the form of emergency relief. Read more…

Gauteng: Jo-den gets a wheelchair

By Juanita du Preez

“Peep, peeeeeep, peeeeep! Sorry!” These sounds and words are now often heard wherever little Jo-den Porter (5) of Rayton goes.

Until recently, he was dependent on adults to carry him wherever he wanted to go. Otherwise, he would slide on his bottom to get around. But now he has his own shiny wheels. Read more…

Western Cape: Solidarity Helping Hand Ceres jumps in to support fire-fighters in Tulbagh

By Juanita du Preez

True to its name, the Solidarity Helping Hand branch in Ceres on 9 January jumped in to lend a helping hand to the approximately 200 fire-fighters in the Tulbagh/Wolseley region, where devastating fires had been raging for three days already. Read more…

Meet Danie Brink – Solidarity Helping Hand’s new chief executive

By Juanita du Preez

In January, Solidarity Helping Hand welcomes Dr Danie Brink as new chief executive of the organisation.

Dr Brink will pay particular attention to the strategic extension of the organisation and all its existing projects. Read more…

Helping out former Aurora mineworkers

Solidarity Helping Hand has set up an Aurora Emergency fund from which we conduct several projects.  Some of these include:

From June 2011, assisting all interested former mine workers to draft professional CV’s and distributing those CV’s to relevant employers. In June the group were assisted and received advice on how to compile a good CV to re-enter the labour market. Despite food and clothing which are regularly distributed, this project is the first practical action of the Solidarity Movement’s rescue plan for the former Aurora employees. Read more…