Thursday, November 21, 2013

Preparing for celebration tomorrow at Madzibandlela Orphanage Home

Thu, 21 Nov 2013 - The Ilze Halliday Foundation
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Cupcakes galore for Madzibandlela + duvets, clothing, carpets, lever arch files and some extra boxes. Oh, and my Santa outfit arrived(finally). Looking forward to a wonderful morning with the little ones tomorrow!

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Celebration time!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Celebration time!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation







For those of you who were thinking that I've been idly sitting around, waiting for life to happen...a newsflash! Since Friday, the 15th of November, I've been driving around Pretoria, despite the heatwave, handing out gifts to facilities.
This then, just a tiny update, the rest of the news will follow as soon as I find the time to sit down and write it all up! I'm done with three facilities (see some pic's above) and still have 5 to go. 
Watch this space for more info in the coming days!

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Party preparations in full swing! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Party preparations in full swing! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation




This week saw me rushing around between office and store to purchase goodies for my 8 facilities' celebration days. 

The first one is tomorrow at Forever Angels Place of Safety. I'm taking along some extra gifts and cupcakes, lovingly prepared by Charmaine Visser of Cupcake Annie and some sweet puffs. Santa Clause will be played by Marius van den Berg, the husband of Ursula, the housemommy.

In addition to sorting out all the celebration stuff, I finally got around to clearing out some donations I've received a while back from Ronel Dixon and Irma Roodt. Clothing, carpets (received from Annette Jacobs at the Reserve Bank) and toys will be distributed among the facilities during celebration time.

Well, I have to prepare for my celebration program tomorrow. I'll keep you posted!!!!

Monday, November 11, 2013

Still praying for donors.. - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Still praying for donors.. - The Ilze Halliday Foundation


If anyone out there cares to make a donation towards the celebration events for Santa Shoebox...please don't hesitate to contact me NOW. 

Each party pack will contain:
* Lollipop
* Soft sweet
* Chips/popcorn
* Cold drink/ice lolly
* Biscuit

In addition I need to take with cake/cupcakes and for the facilities with electricity...vienna sausages, hotdog rolls and tomato sauce (these instead of the party packs and/or cake). 

So PLEASE people...click here to contact me if you want to make our Christmas celebrations extraordinary. 
Remember....the gift is only a part of the whole package Santa Shoebox provides to the less fortunate among us.

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Party packs still needed for Santa Shoebox celebrations! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Party packs still needed for Santa Shoebox celebrations! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation


I still need sponsors or goods to fill party packsfor my Santa Shoebox celebrations.
Each party pack will contain the following:
* Sweets (lollipop, fizzer, gummy sweet)
* Crisps
* Cold drink
* Biscuits (e.g. lunchbox sized Oreos)

In addition to the party packs I want to take along some cake and/or cupcakes and snack trays for the staff. The cupcakes have been sorted, though, but I need at least 46 big square cakes (to be cut in 28-32 pieces)for the facilities.

Four of my facilities have electricity, so I if someone can provide hotdogs, hotdog rolls and tomato sauce for these, I can save on the party packs. Cones and ice cream can be dessert.

In total I have 8 facilities (numbers of children in each mentioned below). I ampreparing for 1.000 children in total, not including the staff members.

I also need more volunteers to join me during these events...I can do with some extra hands.

Below a list of my facilities:

IF YOU ARE AT ALL INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS MAKING THESE CELEBRATIONS EXTRA SPECIAL, CLICK HERE TO CONTACT ME NOW.
Santa Shoebox Project 2013
Celebration Schedule
DATE & TIME

15 Nov @ 
10 am

18 Nov @
10 am

20 Nov @
10 am

22 Nov @

10 am

25 Nov @
10 am

27 Nov @
10 am


29 Nov @
10 am


30 Nov @
11 am
NAME OF FACILITY

Forever Angels
Place of Safety

Ditebogo Daycare


Ikaneng Drop-in and Daycare

Madzibandlela
Orphanage Home

Vos Community Centre

Odinberg Community Centre

Eersterust Care and Training Centre


My Kassie 2nd Chanz Foundation
AREA


Montana Gardens

Hammans=
kraal

Soshanguve
Block NN

Soshanguve
Ext 11

Sunnyside


Mabopane



Eersterust



Eersterust
TOTAL KIDS

6


308


138


47


119


92



59



150
ELECTRICITY


Yes


Yes


No


No


Yes


No



Yes



Yes
IF YOU ARE AT ALL INTERESTED IN CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS MAKING THESE CELEBRATIONS EXTRA SPECIAL, CLICK HERE TO CONTACT ME NOW.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Sweets, cakes, chips, drinks needed for Santa Shoebox celebration days!!!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Sweets, cakes, chips, drinks needed for Santa Shoebox celebration days!!!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation








If you wish to donate any of the above, please contact me urgently. Click here to send an email with details of your donation.  We need all the above to make up at least 950 party packs for my facilities' celebration days. The first one to be held on 15th November, so you can understand the urgency. In addition to these, we need packaging (small plastic bags/paper bags/cartons). 

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Santa Shoebox drop-off...we're nearly at the end people!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Santa Shoebox drop-off...we're nearly at the end people!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

  





 













































These past two weeks saw the team and their volunteers work themselves into a stupor at the two drop-offs in Pretoria. Drop-off started on the 24th October and officially ended on the 26th. Of course we received numerous late donations (for which we were incredibly thankful!) and still kept going until well into last week. 
Pretoria East/Centurion and Pretoria North/Magalieskruin drop-offs received a total of nearly 8600 boxes and are happy to announce that all our children at facilities sourced earlier this year, will receive a box. Countrywide an astonishing 119 163 shoeboxes have been pledged....a heartwarming thought, when you look at the dire economic times we are currently living in. To think that there are still actually people out there who really care and would not mind spending something extra to make the life of one stranger just a tiny bit better during this coming festive season. 
The pictures shown in the gallery above was taken at our Pretoria North/Magalieskruin venue. Have a look at the beautifully decorated boxes some of the kids can look forward to! Some of those boxes were literally bulging with wonderful things....the donors packed with so much thought and care, one can see that these were given from the heart.

My utmost thanks then to these donors for their kindness, to the volunteers for their time and hard work and the Pretoria committee for the endless and tireless support and their patience with an inexperienced SSB member like me. Special thanks to Margie Kostelac for her kind words and continuous support and last, but definitely not the least, to our venue managers...the NG church Magalieskruin; Hannelie de Beer and her team were invaluable. Your willingness to help with our cause and to make it possible for us to have a drop-off venue at all, as well as for your advice during the marketing process....thank you so very much. 

In addition to the shoeboxes I personally received donations in the form of either goods or cash from all over; Annalie Lewis from LA Sport, Annette from the SA Reserve Bank, Carin Immelman, Henriette Crafford,  Isabel le Roux, Hannelie de Beer, Mkateko and Pieter Halliday....these were all used to fill boxes so that Pretoria can reach its target. Some of the funds are still left over and will be used during the celebration period at the end of November (to purchase cake, cold drinks and snacks for the children). Thank you all very much. 

So, still ahead then is the celebrations, as mentioned above. My first party is at Forever Angels Place of Safety on the 15th of November. From that day onwards nearly daily until the 30th, when I have my final celebration at My Kassie 2nd Chanz Foundation in Eersterust. I'm therefore calling on anyone interested to join me at these celebrations to contact me immediately (click to contact), or if you wish to donate cake/drinks/snacks... You can send an email by clicking here. Planning is already underway; I've secured a student to play Santa (please if you have a Santa suit that we can borrow...contact me before 10 Nov.)and cupcakes have been ordered, plus a few volunteers who helped us during drop-off said they'll come and help during the celebration period as well.

Watch this space for more updates on the celebrations!