All our projects

TODDLERS AND CHILDREN

  • Dig a sand pit; paint a bare wall, jungle gym or bicycle track; collect black kickbikes for a needy nursery school.
  • Arrange a visit from the fire brigade to the needy nursery school.
  • Start a library with educational toys and books.
  • Sponsor a child’s school uniform or school trips.
  • Collect stationery throughout the year.
  • Arrange a country sport day for children in shacks or informal settlements.
  • Arrange a week at your children’s school where the children will be made aware of outreach and caring for the less privileged.
  • Arrange a birthday surprise for an orphan or needy toddler.

YOUNG PEOPLE

  • Sponsor a needy teenager’s aptitude or psychometric tests.
  • Arrange a career expo or entrepreneur day at your local high school.
  • Start your own bursary fund or approach big companies and organisations to start a bursary fund.
  • Sponsor a young person to attend a bridging course after school.
  • Help needy teenagers to get holiday work.
  • Arrange trips for young people to companies to enable them to learn more about careers they are interested in.

JOB SEEKERS

  • Assist job seekers to compile their CVs and, if necessary, e-mail it on their behalf.
  • Assist a job seeker to prepare for job interviews.
  • Assist a young entrepreneur to compile a business plan or budget.
  • Start a job creating vegetable garden or sewing project at a shelter or informal settlement.
  • Start a job creating recycling project in your neighbourhood.

AWARENESS

  • Tell your friends, family and colleagues – locally and abroad – of Solidarity Helping Hand. Encourage them to sign up for Helping Hand’s weekly newsletter.
  • Join Helping Hand’s Facebook group and invite your friends to join.
  • Recruit one Helping Hand supporter every month.
  • Arrange a fun-run in your community to collect funds and raise awareness.
  • Arrange a business breakfast, women’s conference, ladies’ tea party or brainstorm to discuss the need in the community.

NEEDY FAMILIES AND THE ELDERLY

  • Contact organisations and churches in your community and work with them on feeding schemes and job creation projects for families and the elderly.
  • Collect non-perishable products at your local supermarket, school or church and distribute it to soup kitchens, feeding schemes, shelters or old-age homes.
  • Make an appointment with the manager of the local old-age home to determine what their specific needs are.
  • Adopt a needy grandma or granddad:
  • sponsor his or her monthly toiletries;
  • make an appointment for him/her for a haircut or pedicure;
  • arrange an outing on special occasions such as Mother’s Day or Father’s Day or his/her birthday;
  • assist him/her with transport to the clinic or hospital; and
  • assist him/her to apply for social grants.

Basically anything you could make “hope” a reality in your community.