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These homes need extra support at this time of the year because they also want to make the children’s Christmas special.
The festive season is here and that means more spending than usual.
Sadly, non-profit organisations like Johannesburg Children’s Home and Uitkoms Home for Girls cannot afford to spend a little more because they have to focus on providing the basics.
These homes need extra support at this time of the year because they also want to make the children’s Christmas special.
The motto of Johannesburg Children’s Home is that child care is not just the provision of food and shelter, but also includes the provision of a special place for a child to be in a home in which they can take pride and feel surrounded by love and warmth. The home is the only place some of the children call home.
To make their Christmas special, you can add some items the home needs into your Christmas shopping. The wish list:
Groceries:
- Long Life Milk
- Muffin Mix
- Muffin Cups
- Peanut butter
- Brown Sugar
- 2 minute noodles
- Mayonnaise
- Coffee
- Tea
- Aromat
- Wheat bix
- Pro nutro
- Chutney
- Mustard sauce
- Iwisa Instant Porridge
- Lemon juice.
Personal care:
- Vaseline
- Black shoe polish
- Bath soap.
Cleaning materials:
- Cobra floor polish
- Dish cloths
- Black refuse bags
- Clear refuse bags
Stationery list:
- 30 – 288 pages hard cover books
- 50 – 72 pages soft cover books
- 40 – exam pads
- 10 100g Bostic Prestik
- 20 – boxes of Typex
- 20 -highlighters
- 4 – boxes DL Windows envelopes
- 4 – boxes C4 envelopes
- 10 each – black, red permanent markers
- 60 – plastic, brown and colourful book covers
- 15 each blue, red, yellow, orange and purple portfolio files
- 20 – big sellotapes
- 20 Trefoil no.1o. paint brushes
- Coloured cardboard
- 60 – 192 pages hard cover books.
“These items make a difference in the children’s lives. We appreciate all the donations we receive from the community and businesses,” said head of operations Fiona Duke.
Yolanda Erasmus, from Uitkoms, said the girls’ home is also asking for any donation for the daily running of the home.
The home’s administration officer, Yolanda Erasmus, said the home, like many NPOs, is in need of donations to be able to continue providing a service to the girls in need.
The home needs:
- Mealie-meal
- Samp mealies
- Mealie rice
- Sugar
- Rama/Blossom margarine
- Cooking oil
- Bread
- Chicken spice
- Beef spice
- Raja
- 1 different type of soup
- Peanut butter
- Bags of onion
- Potatoes
- Black shoe polish
- Dish wash
- Bleach
- Sunlight bar soap
- Washing powder
- Bath soap
- Toilet cleaner
- Furniture polish
- Refuse bags
- Glycerine
- 20 Toilet paper
- Disprine tablets
- Compral tablets.
If you would like to contact the homes and offer donations or help, you can contact them on
Johannesburg Children’s Home pr@jch.org.za or 011 568 0407,
Uitkoms Home for Girl’s Yolanda Erasmus on 011 487 0357 or at admin@uitkoms.org.za
