Winter Warming Kit - Donate NOW!

The Ilze Halliday Foundation - Blog

Winter is on its way, friends, and I'm trying to put together some donations that I can share among the facilities I service. If we all pull together on this, we can help to keep some families a little bit warmer this winter. 

Most of my facilities have no electricity, hence no heaters or air conditioners. They boil water for meals on gas stoves or open fires....if they have the means to purchase gas and wood, that is. The schools have no carpets on the floors and children have to sit on the bare, cold cement. Some of these schools have no proper classrooms...they make do with tin huts, which can become freezing cold in the dead of winter. 

According to 'The guardian' (http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/nov/26/excess-winter-deaths-up-29) deaths caused by extreme cold have increased during the past winter in Europe with 29%. You do remember the freezing conditions experienced in the Northern hemisphere during the past winter, don't you? Well, what if we, here in South Africa, are also in for such a freak freeze? So many homeless people, so many people living in shacks around the country and few of them with the financial means or the savvy to keep warm. It is our job to take care of those.....we with our nice heated homes and electric blankets; we can make proper meals on a proper stove, buy warm clothes for ourselves and our families.....most of these people cannot even get to the shop, and anyway, they have no money to buy anything. Would you like your family member or your child to be in that position? I don't think so. If you then, can find it in your heart to donate something this winter.....make up just one kit...you will make someone, somewhere very happy indeed. And who knows, you may even be responsible for saving a life this winter.

The kits consist of just three items:

1. A blanket (second hand is fine)
2. A plastic cup or beaker
3. A packet of instant soup

You pack all these in a plastic shopping bag and give me a call (click for contact details) or e-mail by clicking here. You can also click here to complete the contact form. I will make arrangements for pick-up/delivery.