Tackling Homelessness in South Africa

In South Africa life is a bit different to what you might know....

We park our car on the side of a road or in a car park and a 'car guard' usually a homeless person will watch your car and in return you will give them 5 rand ($0.25). It's one way homeless are trying to make money but then you have thousands of others living around the city and begging at the traffic lights, tourism before COVID was big here and people used to give handouts. But what happens to these handouts? Usually drugs or alchol, so giving money is not a good idea we need to change it 

Our partners in South Africa run a voucher program, you want to buy a voucher for 10ZAR and give it to the homeless rather than give them cash, they bring the voucher along to our centre and exchange it for a hot meal or item of clothing from the second had shop. While on site our trained care workers try to get them to join our program where they move into our centre, go through rehab and once clean join the skills program and will graduate with a job. We have hundreds of success stories. 

Unfortunately the 10 rand vouchers don't cover the program and that is why we need your support too, together we can change the future. We currently have 15 people on the program and this isn't capacity, it's money. 

The number of people coming through the doors is amazing, people out there want to change, want to kick the addiction and want to take control of their life again, they just need the help to take the first step and that is why we are here! 

Thank You