Bare your heart for Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust
The Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust has numerous ways in which you can get involved and help support those in need.
PLEDGE your 67 minutes to help support the Hillcrest AIDS Centre Trust (HACT) this Mandela Day!
One of the simplest ways to show your support for the local non-profit organisation it to purchase a Mandela Day stick for R10 each.
How to spend your 67 minutes helping HACT:
Go through your family’s cupboards and donate your pre-loved clothing to HACT’s Winter Warmth Appeal. Adult and children’s clothing is accepted.
Collect and donate any household goods that are no longer used or needed for its White Elephant Charity Shop. All donations can be dropped at HACT’s reception during business hours.
Go green, roll up your sleeves and spruce up your garden with some indigenous plants from HACT’s plant nursery.
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Donation and sponsorship opportunities:
Sponsor a Gogo Home Garden Start-Up Kit and help a gogo to feed her family. It costs R250 per kit that includes seasonal vegetable seedlings grown in HACT’s Plant Nursery, compost and an isiZulu Basic Gardening manual.
Help bring some cheer to the on-site Respite Unit patients by sponsoring a Mandela Day braai. The cost is R67 per patient for 24 patients. In-kind donations of food are also welcome.
Sponsor a PPE kit for HACT’s nurses and frontline healthcare workers. The cost is R80 per kit.
Donate wish list items for the Respite Unit patients: soap, toothpaste, toothbrushes, body lotion, Vaseline as well as sugar and tinned fish.
Join the Jars of Hope Challenge
Challenge friends, family and colleagues to make Jars of Hope. Recycle and old coffee jars to help create a nourishing soup for four people. Completed Jars of hope can be dropped off at HACT’s reception. These will be distributed to families in need.
Each jar includes:
1/2 a cup of rice
1/2 a cup of soup mix
1/2 a cup of lentils
x1 unwrapped stock cube
x1 packet of soup powder
Other ways to show you care:
HACT’s Ubuntu Ground Cafe is open!
Treat your family, friends or colleagues to a coffee or lunch.
Purchase a bag of premium Lineage coffee for your home or office. Companies can make HACT their official coffee supplier and earn B-BBEE points.
Book the team’s catering services and/or conference venue for the next company meeting/ event.
Visit and support the Woza Moya team’s Bloom Where You Are Planted flower exhibition at the on-site Woza Gallery.
Purchase a Madiba Little Traveller pin for R65 each.
Help us to upskill Woza Moya crafters by sponsoring a local crafter to attend a Loom Beading Workshop for R300 per person.
Contact the marketing and fundraising team via email at fundraising@hillaids.org.za.
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