Help local NGO support struggling families
The Golf Day Fundraiser will help CAST continue assisting their partner churches in reaching out to their communities.
KWADABEKA resident Nonku Mthikrakra is the oldest in her family of six. Like many women living in informal settlements, the 35-year-old has taken on the responsibility of supporting her siblings’ children as well as her own after some of them tragically lost their parents.
The Church Alliance for Social Transformation (CAST) non-profit organisation, based in Westville, partners with 14 churches in KwaZulu-Natal to assist families, like the Mthikrakras, who are struggling financially due to unemployment by providing them with monthly food parcels.
The churches identify and assess families through home visits to establish their immediate needs.
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Nonku’s family is dependent on social grants to sustain themselves, which leaves little funding for anything else. Her son, Eyona, in his final year of high school, shares, “I want to study to become a pilot after matric, but sometimes, there is no money to buy the things I need or take transport to attend extra classes. Studying at home is also difficult when there are so many of us here.”
In 2020, he met one of CAST’s former interns who invited him to CAST’s Community Centre at KwaDabeka Baptist Church where the learners could study together in a safe, quiet space.
The monthly food parcel helps to supplement the families’ diets with a selection of non-perishable nutritional food items. Without this, many would go hungry and be unable to function.
CAST will be hosting a Golf Day Fundraiser on Friday, June 9 at Kloof Country Club to help raise funds to continue assisting their partner churches in reaching out to their communities.
The public can support this by booking a four-ball to play, or boost your business with advertising space at the tee boxes and donating prizes and promotional items for the goodie bags.
Contact info@cast.org.za or call 031 266 8830 for more information.
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