Supporting Children living in poverty in South Africa

I spent 4 years living in South Africa and have been back many times to visit the charities I worked 
with when we lived there.

There are numerous charities in South Africa supporting children living in poverty in many different ways.

The Viva Foundation who supply affordable education and support the local community with a 
variety of projects. Including camping in a township, taking part in an arts project.

Dignity Dreams providing women with washable and reusable sanitary products. I reviewed them.

Santa Shoebox Project collect and distribute 110,000 Christmas gifts throughout the country each 
year. My Santa Shoebox journey.

Kungwini Welfare Organisation provide residential care for adults and children with learning 
difficulties, as well as providing education in their local community. I first started making scarves 
with them in 2014 raising funds for supplies for the workshop

I'm back in South Africa in September 2018. I've funded my own trip and will be staying with friends as I've done previously, since we relocated to Dubai.

What I'll be doing as well as visiting and supporting Kungwini and Santa Shoebox is to visit the 
children in the townships that I've met through these organisations over the years and bring a little  
extra happiness into their lives.

This could be through painting a classroom, holding a birthday party, donating toiletries and or 
educational supplies and I'd like you to help me succeed by donating £5 in exchange for a handmade scarf. That's it, that's all you have to do, just visit my PayPal account and donate.

In exchange for your £5, I'll select a scarf at random that I've made and post it to you. I'll tweet out a 
thank you, post the total amount raised, provide invoices and post photos online (with permission) of 
the children who have received your donation. Every penny raised will be spent directly on children 
living in poverty.

Visit my Paypal account, donate and then message me with your address on:

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Charity scarves for sale for Education in South Africa

Since moving to Dubai I've done no charity or volunteer work, I've got no excuses as I don't even have children to settle into their new schools and activities to find etc, but I suppose I can be excused a little bit as I've been settling myself in, learning to drive on the opposite side of the road, exploring the neighbourhood and adapting to the heat.

Just because I'm no longer living in South Africa doesn't mean I can't carry on raising awareness and more importantly raising funds for the charities I was involved with.

In October and November I will be spending 4-6 weeks in South Africa mainly to work with The Santa Shoebox Project and The Viva Foundation and visiting several other township facilities.

So what can you do to help?

You can buy a scarf, that I've made at a cost of only £5 to include postage and packing. You don't get a choice of scarf as they are now all packaged up waiting for the orders to come in, ready for my mum just to address and pop in the post box to you.

I'm paying my own flight, car hire and accommodation costs and will be staying with various friends. I have a generous 30kg luggage allowance to take over some essentials that I'm collecting to take over with me, but there are still many items I need to purchase when I arrive to support my activities there.

You can make a payment via paypal or you can message me on twitter or Facebook for bank details.