The Thandi Albertina Golden (TAG) Foundation is situated in Eldorado Park Extension Nine, Number 12 August Street. It is a rehabilitation centre for those who have lost their way and now seek help.

TAG provides the light that such people are looking for. The foundation has come up with a fundraising drive that will help them provide for the home’s needs.

“This is a fundraising drive for the needs of the TAG Foundation recovery home in partnership with Community Service Delivery Committee (COSDEC),” said chairperson Hilton Dawson.

The fundraising campaign slogan is ‘Help us fight drugs’ through a tin collection project being placed at local shops in Eldorado Park for people to place their small change into the tin to support this fundraising drive.

Patrick Golden is the founder of TAG recovery and calls Eldos his birthplace and the streets where he was involved in car theft, hijacking, sold and used high volumes of drugs and ended up in a rehabilitation centre for his drug dependence.

While on the recovery programme he realised that drugs were the devil in powder form, out to destroy one’s life and he needed to make a difference in the community through starting a drug rehabilitation centre.

They use the acronym ‘the Devil’s Revenge Upon God’s Servants to refer to the deadly scourge.

The recovery home runs an in-house six-month programme called ‘celebrate recovery’ from the first-day sufferers enter the programme until the recovery phase when they are placed in a skills development programme.

There are also one-on-one counselling sessions with a psychiatrist once a week to restore the recovering user back into the community.

TAG’s home director, Craig Lottering said that they have also piloted a schools programme at Kliptown High Secondary School as an early intervention and recovery initiative.

This programme is targeting the youth and provides them with a drug mentorship programme after school, feeding them and providing guidance on drugs.

The home is self-funded with the help from locals who want to save our youth from substance abuse.

They are urging the community to pledge their support by placing their small change in the tins placed at the shops to help in the fight against drugs in our community which could save another child or family from the destructive consequences of drugs.

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