By Melissa Williams-Platt | Sam's Mum, Co-Founder & Trustee
A very happy New Year to all our incredible donors!!
2020 was certainly a year for the history books, 2021 it seems is also trying its level best to fast outdo 2020 with its new and ongoing challenges. 2020 was a year that forced Footprints 4 Sam to think differently and to look at new ways to innovate in order to support our beneficiaries, namely underprivileged children with a chronic illness.
This report is largely a shout out of thanks to all our donors who gave generously over this period. Our beneficiaries certainly found their social economic circumstances worsened through unemployment and general lockdown hardship and the healthcare sector as a whole was and still is under extreme pressure not only in South Africa but all over the world. However, through your help we were still able to make many of their lives easier!
Footprints 4 Sam through your support has been able to continue our work uninterrupted and we were able to expand our food bucket programme. Super Sam Hero Food buckets were delivered directly to our patients front doors. During 2020 we have also been able to deliver much needed transport through our Super Sam Hero transport initiative impacting 810 children and with our vehicles travelling over 49 000 km to ensure their safety and support. Our food parcels, as mentioned have been life changing and our toiletry parcels, filled with much needed hygiene products have helped to keep our beneficiaries safe during this unprecedented time of heightened infection risk. We have also through the Super Sam Hero Transport initiative been able to deliver chronic medication to those beneficiaries who have been unable to travel due to their chronic conditions.
All in all, despite its challenges and enormous loss for so many, 2020 has seen the legacy of The Footprints 4 Sam Trust grow, as all our initiatives have continued to help and support the most vulnerable of vulnerable children.
We have also launched our Footprints 4 Sam World Giving Series and if you are active and would like to participate in our amazing app driven virtual multi-sport series - #GetFit with purpose and meaning - then please visit our website and hit enter.
For a detailed overview of all we have done, please see the included link for our first ever annual report, as well as our fun graphic overview of our overall impact as a Trust in 2020.
Without you ALL, our hands would be tied. Thank you so much for making our work possible and for helping us expand our impact across South Africa!
Please stay safe.
All our love and thanks.
Melissa (Sam's Mum, Co-Founder and Trustee).
Links:
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can recieve an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
Support this important cause by creating a personalized fundraising page.
Start a Fundraiser
