Get more web exposure for you facility - for SA only - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Get more web exposure - for SA only - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

If you know about a facility in need...someone that desperately requires a helping hand with anything from food and clothing to extra staff, please have them contact me or download and complete the facilities' questionnaire in the file link below. 
Upon receipt of the completed form, I will create a separate page for the facility on this website. The purpose being to increase web exposure for those in need. I've found that, sometimes, these impoverished creches, schools, places of safety and care homes are right under our noses, without our knowledge. Perhaps if more people knew about them, they will get more assistance in the form of donations, volunteers, etc.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS OPPORTUNITY IS LIMITED TO SOUTH AFRICAN FACILITIES ONLY.

Download facilities questionnaire

More donations shared

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Annah Ndlovu (pictured left) from Madzibandlela Orphanage in Soshanguve, picked up her donations today. She also agreed to take educational toys and stationery, previously donated by Tanya Pegram, with, so that Busisiwe Ramathoka from Odinberg Community Center in Mabopane can pick it up from her tomorrow. Both facilities still need plenty of stuff...food and educational supplies remain an issue and, with the winter around the corner, blankets and warm clothing are high on their priority list. 

The children at Odinberg, for instance, have no proper mattresses to lie on during nap-time; they sleep on the cold, hard cement floors of their classrooms. Both Madzibandlela and Odinberg takes care of children aged 0 to grade R, but have no proper school equipment like black/white boards, overhead projectors or sufficient supplies of paper/pens/pencils/crayons/other educational tools. Books for reading are in short supply and it is a struggle for the teachers who are desperately trying to prepare these youngsters for primary school.

The following donations found their way to Annah and Busisiwe today:

• Clothes, linen, teddy bears and straightening irons- received from the team at El Pelo Studio in Magalieskruin 
• Educational supplies from Tanya Pegram (specifically for Odinberg)
• Appliances, cricket sets, clothing, linen and educational supplies from Karin Spykerman.

I want to thank all these generous donors. Without you, my work will not be possible at all. Your kindness will go a long way towards making life easier for these dedicated people at the facilities.

If anyone else can be of assistance, either by donating items or depositing funds, please follow the appropriate link below:

• Contact form
• Contact details
• Account details
• Direct e-mail

Remember that donations received from within the Pretoria/Centurion area can be picked up. 

Karin gives again - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Karin gives again - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Another donation from loyal supporter, Karin Spykerman. 

Today we were blessed with receiving appliances, clothing, linen, manuscript books and other educational supplies. She also gave us two cricket sets (specifically for Madzibandlela Orphanage Home). She told  me that she hopes this will inspire some of the kids to play cricket and, perhaps, become BIG in South African sport. 

Her words reminded me of something....how we can change the future of one unfortunate, needy child in the world just by giving something small. Your gestures don't have to be big, your donations not millions of rand and the goodies, not truckloads full....one cricket set can make a champion, one pencil a bestselling author, one book can teach someone to read....you CAN make a difference. 

The question is....will you DARE to try?

Contact me for details on how you can help. 
Click image below to complete contact form.

Ditebogo picks up El Pelo donation - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Ditebogo picks up El Pelo donation - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

This morning Onicca Hlabela, the principal of Ditebogo Daycare and Lerato  La Mme Orphanage in Kekana Gardens, Hammanskraal, got a team of young men together and they picked up the generous donation of clothing, towels and blankets made by Marinda Deysel and her team from El Pelo Studio in Magalieskruin, Pretoria. Onicca was SO grateful for these and wanted me to thank the donors on her behalf...so, this is for YOU guys...Marinda, Cindy, Dora and Guiseppe...

Onicca usually sorts through the clothing items and uses the children's clothes for the orphanage (mostly abandoned...some of them already in their teens). The towels and blankets will also come in handy at the orphanage and will also be used at the daycare during nap-time. The rest of the clothes will be sold piece by piece to people within their community to bring in some much needed cash for Ditebogo. Their monthly fee per child is R 50-00...and even then some of the parents cannot manage it. 

Onicca feeds nearly 470 children from ages 0 to 18 on a daily basis. She has a support staff that needs to be paid salaries and, apart from the food (she has become quite self-sufficient - planting fruit trees and growing vegetables of her own), they also have to buy water...two large JoJo tanks per week is just enough to supply drinking water for the kids. There is only a little water used during bath time....Ditebogo has NO running water. The daycare provides a source of education and extra-curricular activities like music, art, drama and dancing...for that they also need funding and educational equipment, tools and supplies. 

This morning she mentioned that,  if I place her photo on the web, I need to ask forsomeone to help them with the water issue. So, if anyone can help them with the installation of a borehole and pump...it will really help a lot. Buying water, like they are doing now, costs them more than R 4000-00 per month....and then they barely have enough. 

If you can be of any assistance to Onicca, please call me (click for contact details) or send a direct e-mail (click here). You can also give Onicca herself a call on number: 0731808371 or e-mail her: leratolamme@gmail.com.

Nearly done with website!!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Nearly done with website!!! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

As you know, I've been busy with the final touches to IHF-website. Now, I've been doing it for a while, in between updating the blog (the only page on this site that I felt happy about, anyway), I've been planning and scheming and trying new things to place on site. It is an arduous job, doing it on my own...but I've learned a lot in the process, so I'm not complaining.  

Very soon you will be invited to check out the brand new site for the Ilze Halliday Foundation. Here are some things I've been working on and what you can look forward to:

• I'll be adding pages assigned to each of the facilities I deal with
• On these pages you will find links to the facilities' own websites (if any), photographs and contact details
• You will also be able to see what specific needs they have and read a little about their history.
• Updated information about projects will be available

The names of the facilities/organizations I support are as follows:

• Ditebogo Daycare and Lerato La Mme (Hammanskraal)
• Ikaneng Drop-in and Daycare (Soshanguve)
• Bakwena House for HIV+ teens (Kilner Park)
• Ikhaye lami le Themba (Soshanguve)
• Madzibandlela Orphanage Home (Soshanguve)
• Odinberg Community Centre (Mabopane)
• Forever Angels Place of Safety (Doornpoort)
• Tshwane North Outreach (Wolmer)
• My Kassie 2nd Chanz Foundation (Eersterust)
• Eersterust Care and Training Centre (Eersterust)
• Mohau Centre for HIV+ children (Atteridgeville)
• Mokgwaneng Educare 
• Vos Centre (Sunnyside)

If you know of any other facilities around Pretoria that need some extra exposure on the Internet to help with fundraising/donations/etc, please do not hesitate to contact me by clicking on one of the choices below:

• Direct e-mail
• Contact form
• Contact details

If you wish to donate anything (donations from Pretoria Area can be picked up) please click below:

• Contact form for goods (clothing/toys/stationery/educational tools/toiletries/food/blankets)
• Account details if you wish to donate funds.

El Pelo does it again! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

El Pelo does it again! - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Once again I've been blessed with a donation from the loyal team at El Pelo Studio. Thank you very  much Marinda, Cindy, Guiseppe and Dora for your support. I would also like to thank their clients that contribute to their efforts. 

Remember about the Winter Warmer Kits that I asked for in an earlier post. Help me to keep the needy warm by donating blankets, instant soup and mugs. You can give me a call/e-mail me or complete a contact form on this website. I will pick up donations in the Pretoria area myself. If you wish to donation funds, follow this link to the account details and mark your deposit 'WinterWarmer'.

Links: 

• Contact details
• Contact form
• Direct e-mail
• Account details

Want to get in touch with our generous donors at El Pelo Studio? Message them on Facebook - click here.

I thank you.

Mary Mitchell - Google+ - How To Create Eye-Catching Graphics For Your Nonprofit…

Mary Mitchell - Google+ - How To Create Eye-Catching Graphics For Your Nonprofit…

From Mary Mitchell:

Julia Campbell originally shared to Social Media 4 Good Community (➛ Nonprofit Technology):

 

How To Create Eye-Catching Graphics For Your Nonprofit (Without Using Photoshop!)

I presented a great webinar this week with @4good and Nonprofit Webinars, and I am happy to share it with you here.

Summary: There is no doubt that visuals are driving online communications in 2014. Our minds react differently to visual content.

On Facebook, videos are shared 12X more than links and text posts combined. 42% of all Tumblr posts are photos. On YouTube, 100 million users are taking a social action on videos every week. 36% of all shared links on Twitter are photos!

Take-aways:

The 6 things that make a great nonprofit visual;
Examples from nonprofits that are making and sharing eye-catching graphics;
Free or low-cost tools that do not require any technical knowledge to use!

Thank you El Pelo Studio - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Thank you El Pelo Studio - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

My thanks to Marinda Deysel and Cyndi Dias from El Pelo Studio in Magalieskruin for donating clothing. I hope to have it delivered to Odinburg Community Centre within the week. I will keep you updated on developments.

Also remember the Winter Warmer Kits I've asked for earlier in the week. I have, as yet, not received any response and I would like to have some of it packed and ready for distribution in mid-April...well before the winter hits our part of the world.

March has been 'clothing month' and the donation from El Pelo was the only one I've received. Tanya Pegram also answered my request for educational toys for Odinburg and I have received a donation from Pieter Halliday (a regular donor and my brother) of R 500-00, which will go toward purchasing food for Ikaneng Drop-in and Daycare. Photo's will be put on the website as soon as the items have been delivered, so look out for those.

I thank all my benefactors from the bottom of my heart....without you I won't be able to help these people. Remember that no donation is too small....anything will do for those in need, as they have nothing. Your donation can make a huge difference in someone's life, even if you think it is mediocre. I believe that big things have small beginnings....and every good thing you do, will eventually snowball into something greater and better. 

If you consider donating to this cause, please send me your information by clicking here.

You can also click on the links below for:

• Our email address
• Our contact details
• Our account details

Winter Warming Kit - Donate NOW!

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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.

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Educational supplies donated - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Educational supplies donated - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

A big thank you to Tanya Pegram, a regular donor to my facilities, for these educational supplies. You will remember that, a few weeks back, I received a request from Odinburg Community Centre for educational toys and supplies....well, I already contacted Busisiwe Ramathoka, the headmistress, and she'll be collecting the items on Tuesday!

Thank you also to my son, Remond, who was kind enough to drive out to Tanya's to pick up the donation this morning.

Keep it coming people! I still need a washing machine (any type) and even more educational supplies. Madzibandlela Orphanage still needs school uniforms and then, of course, as you may recall, there is the winter warmers. If you have old blankets or winter clothing, please contact me. The cold days are upon us (I know it doesn't feel like it, but believe me, it's coming!).

Click here for contact details.

A message from God...

http://thisishowitisnow.wordpress.com/2014/03/21/daily-bread-galatians-513/

Winter warmers wanted NOW - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Winter warmers wanted NOW - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

I know it is still full summer here in the South, but winter is around the corner, people, and many of us will soon be going through our cupboards to make sure we have enough blankets, sweaters and other winter things. Some of us (like myself) will also use this opportunity to clear out the old summer stuff to make room for the new warmer clothes.

Before you throw away old clothes, throws and blankets (even if it doesn't look all that good anymore) click here to e-mail me or click here for my other contact details. I will collect if possible. Remember, your stuff may seem old and worn to you, but someone out there may still find it very useful. Having a torn, but warm, blanket on a cold winter night is far better than having none at all and washed out clothing may still have enough wear left in them to cover a chilled body.

If you feel you'd rather contribute funds so that I can purchase something for the needy, please do so. Click here for account details. Make sure you mark the deposit 'WinterWarm'. These will then be used to buy blankets and food for distribution.

You can also complete the contact form with 'Winter Warmers' in the subject line.

Thank you very much.

FACILITIES NEEDED - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

FACILITIES NEEDED - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Help me to help others.....I need names and contact details of facilities (orphanages, creche's, day-and after-school care, homes for the needy and disabled, places of safety, even old age homes for the needy) in and around Pretoria, South Africa. If you know of any, please click here for my contact form and send me the details (name of facility, contact person, telephone number and e-mail). Perhaps I can encourage them to register for our annual shoebox drive or I can just add them to my database, in case something is donated that can help them in some way. 

REMEMBER....POVERTY KNOWS NO BOUNDARIES....ALL RACES, RELIGIONS, AGES ARE INCLUDED.

I will ask these places for a full description of their mission, as well as investigate their needs, etc, so they will definitely be selected very carefully. 

You can also send an e-mail by clicking here.

For applying for Santa Shoebox Project 2014, please click here to go directly to the website or read the information by clicking here.

Thank you.

Affordable nappies and wet wipes - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Affordable nappies and wet wipes - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Affordable nappies and wet wipes

03/06/2014

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Disposable nappies and wipes on sale in Pretoria area.

Very good prices:

• Pampers @ R170.00 for 72/68
• Cuddlers @ R150.00 for 100
• Good quality wet wipes @ R15.00

Contact Soria Gouws on cell nr 0843870763.

You can also click here for my contact details.

If you wish to order any, click here for contact form. Please complete the form in full with heading "Nappies order" and in the message part, mention the item(s) you wish to order, with the necessary details - how many packs and sizes (if applicable).

Request for washing machine - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

Request for washing machine - The Ilze Halliday Foundation

I've received a request for a washing machine. The person in need has no specific preferences and will be happy with any type or make....top loader, twin tub or front loader, it doesn't matter. If you have recently replaced yours and don't know what to do with your old machine, please contact me ASAP.

Click here for contact details.

Thank you very  much for your generosity.

DONATIONS FOUND A HOME

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A huge thank you to both Karin Spykerman and Marline Jonker. Their donations found a home. Annah Ndlovu and her husband, Shepherd, from Madzibandlela Orphanage came to town today to pick up some stuff that they desperately need to take care of the children at their orphanage. Annah, not only, runs a daycare and community centre from her home, she also takes care of orphans, mostly abandoned babies. Marline donated biscuits for the children in January, but I held onto it until more donations could be picked up, making a trip from Soshanguve worth while. Karin contacted me earlier this week and told me that she has a mattress, hotplate, television set and portable radio that she wants to donate. I knew that Annah has trouble with beds...some of her little ones sleep 3 to a single bed and, because she prepares food for the kids at the creche AND some drop-ins from the community,the one stove they have is simply not good enough. The little classroom has no amenities, so I suspect the radio and television will be a welcome addition to their educational tools.

REMEMBER....Annah also asked for school uniforms. She told me today that she will prefer financial donations, as the uniforms must be bought from a supplier in Soshanguve. It is specific clothing with the school badge printed on it....not just any colour will do. So, if you can help them (it is just for four children - 2 boys and 2 girls), please follow the link below to IHF's account details or contact me...I'll gladly collect cash/cheques. You can also contact Annah directly at cell number: +27834238887.

Click here for our account details. 
(EFT's = MadziUniforms; Cheques made out to 'The Ilze Halliday Foundation' and 

write Madzibandlela Uniforms on the back)
OR
Click here for contact details.
OR
Click here for contact form.