Pta organisation helps the needy
SA Cares for life, an organisation which have been existing for 26 years, said their biggest mission was to make sure that children have a future and that they remain safe.
An organisation operating in Pretoria works tirelessly each day to ensure that people in need get help.
SA Cares for Life, operating for 26 years, said their biggest mission was to make sure children have a future and that they remain safe.
“Every child deserves to have a family,” the CEO of the organisation, Sanet Fagen, said.
“Our work involves the support of single moms and dads for them to care for their children so they do not have to go to a place of safety.”
She said they have noticed over the past 26 years that the best way to help the communities was to do it from within the community.
“Which is why we recruit people living in the community who have the heart to help others. In turn, we help those people to help the community,” she said.
“We walk a path with them and empower them to give them what they need to make a difference in a community.”
Some of these people’s homes are then made into a “life house”, which means their home acts as a place of safety for children at risk.
“It also serves as a place from where they can feed people in the community,” Fagen said.
“This also makes food projects much easier.”
SA Cares for Life has many projects throughout the whole Pretoria, including the Moot.
“One project we have that runs throughout the whole Pretoria was a door-to-door project,” she said.
“People let us know what they need and we assist with a food parcel if we have.”
A couple from Danville, Esther and Francois Malan was a family who has transformed their homes into such a “life house”.
“We saw they have fantastic hearts that want to make a difference in the community,” she said.
She said during the national lockdown, they had permits to feed families till the end of June.
They do this every Saturday from 15:00.
“We knew that these families would need support during the national lockdown,” she said.
“People who asked how they could get involved and individuals who wanted to sponsor gave us the options of the communities they are involved with.
“They then chose Danville and started collecting food parcels.”
Fagen said they initially planned for 300 families, but the need only got bigger every Saturday.
“We always need some food and donations – the need grows,” she said.
She said they did not give out food, but rather prepared a food parcel families could take home to make their own food.
“If we have nappies and milk for the babies, we also give it out,” she said.
She said they also had other different parcels which they gave out according to the specific need.
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