The Helping Angels projects are divided into 7 main focus areas:
 

Community Project: 

Bottelary Farm Project, Kraaifontein

Children’s Home:

Colleen’s Place of Hope, Mitchell’s Plain

Pensioners & Elderly:

Pensioners Project, Brooklyn

Feeding Scheme:

House of Hope soup kitchen, Brackenfell

Disabled

Abused children Safe house:

Mamawethu House of Safety, Bellville

Christmas: 

Christmas Shoebox project

Amanda, Francois, Hester and their team are wonderful people that together with several people in the community try to better the lives of farm kids in Kraaifontein. They do a feeding scheme and upliftment programme every Sunday for about 120 farm kids that comes from various farms in the Bottelary area. Some of these children form part of the 400 pupils from Bottelary Primary School, but several of these children are not in school.

The reality is that most of these children do not even get a sandwich to school for lunch time, and therefore the Sunday feeding process is so important to take the kids out of the difficult circumstances at home and to provide them with lunch during the weekends. Since no child can ever learn on an empty tummy, it is a necessity to establish a sustainable feeding scheme as part of this project.

Helping Angels will also be supporting the team with their dream of building a community centre for these children that live in very difficult circumstances and to teach these wonderful kids life skills so that they can rise above their circumstances as they grow older to enable them to create an excellent future for themselves.

Colleen is currently looking after 30 kids, aged from infants to 18 years. What makes this home so wonderful is that she raises each of these kids as her own child, with lots of love and care. She does not have help except for the older kids helping with the younger ones and rely on volunteers to help as much as possible.

The stories of what happened to some of these children are scary and sad, people leaving kids on their own without food and care, horrid tales of abuse and abandonment. And this wonderful woman takes them in and trusts that God will provide enough food for them all. They need regular food donations and funds towards clothes, toiletries and school needs which Helping Angels is helping with as much as possible. We also organise fun events for these wonderful children to expose them to new experiences and to empower them with self-confidence in their capabilities.

Helping Angels is working with Communicare social workers in helping the struggling pensioners in Reyger Court, Brooklyn. These sweet pensioners pay about 30% of their pension for rent, and are left with extremely little money for food, medical expenses, etc.

Our outreach program is to assist these pensioners with food and toiletries, and since we have started the need list have grown from 20 to 60 pensioners that requires regular food handouts. Their needs are great, and whenever we visit them we can see how great the need is, with no food in their cupboards or fridges.  

These are humble, sweet pensioners, who are desperately struggling and forgotten by their families, but with regular visits and food handouts they will be reminded that they are cared for and not forgotten!

Marlene runs a soup kitchen every Tuesday and Thursday and feeds about 110 homeless adults and kids per week. These very poor people don’t have money for a hot meal and most times the meal they get at House of Hope is their only meal for the day. Some of them walk 10 km from the township to get a cup of soup.

Helping Angels is helping Marlene to get in regular donation of food items, clothing items and blankets, to sustain this soup kitchen and to be able to provide for the most basic needs of the homeless.

House El Roi in getting in donations for much needed fresh fruit and veggies, groceries and general items that they need and we also host fun days and events for the lovely residents. They are mentally disabled, but doing fine while on medication, but most of them are like 6/7 year olds and as such require loads of love and special care.

Jellie and her husband Eelke is the loving house mom and dad for our new joined venture, which is a safe house for abandoned and abused babies in Bellville. Helping Angels are so proud to be involved with this wonderful project. We will be taking in 6 children between the ages of 0-5 years. Since a safe house is only a temporary home for a child for a few months while they are awaiting court cases due to abuse and/or neglect, children will come and go in this loving home, but they will all get the love and care they so greatly deserve from this loving house mom and dad!!

Helping Angels will be actively involved in fundraising for our safe house, as well as supporting Jellie with all the safe house’s needs and requirements, working in the safe house and helping Jellie making a difference in these little angels’ lifes!

Helping Angels need your help to give more than 1500 children in children’s homes and safe houses in Cape Town, the joy of getting their own personalised gifts from Santa. We also collect gifts for 110 residents at old age homes and food hampers for 220 needy pensioners to spoil these wonderful forgotten angels with special Christmas treats.

      Beneficiaries of the shoeboxes are:

For more information on how to get involved, please download our Shoebox 2010 guidelines.

Shoebox Project 2010 - Guidelines to download in pdf