Thanks to Extreem Kwizeen who helped us with a freezer, as well as sponsored us with frozen soup, which we distributed to House of Hope soup kitchen in Brackenfell. Marlene and hubby Trevor runs this soup kitchen and she serves 110 homeless people a hot cup of soup every Tuesday and Thursday morning. Thanks Marlene & Trevor for the wonderful work you are doing for the homeless. 

Thanks to generous donations Helping Angels were able to give Florence from Ncedelunthu in Mfuleni a R1000 donation towards buying groceries for the children in their care, and R1500 went to Colleen’s Place of Hope in Mitchells Plain. Thanks Moshe Adir and the Jeppe family for your continued support, Colleen appreciated this so much!

There was 190 children and adults that attended the feeding scheme this Sunday, and Helping Angels and 00HEAVEN worked together to create special memories for a few ‘heroes’ that form part of our Bottelary Farm Project. 9 special farm children and 2 adult farm workers had the chance to take a scenic drive in a limo and to be treated like royalty on a red carpet! We would also like to thank NS Promotions for arranging for Simba the lion to attend this Dream Day! The kids loved having their photos taken with Simba as well as the face painting and Simba hats! We hope that this would motivate these special children to dream about a better future! 

Helping Angels visited Colleen’s Place of Hope and handed over collected goods, thanks so much to Anene Loots and Heidi Theron that donated clothes for the children, to Moshe Adir who donated money towards buying socks and pants for the little angels. Helping Angels also handed over fruit and veggies for the home, groceries, cereal and treats for the children. Thanks Colleen for the love and care you put into these children’s future! 

Thanks to all the wonderful sponsors that helped us to collect new and 2^nd hand clothing and blankets for the farm workers in Kraaifontein. In this extreme winter cold this was very much appreciated, and thanks to all your wonderful donations they can dress warmly and sleep under a snuggly blanket at night. Thanks to everyone that helped at the handout session!

Thanks to Extreem Kwizeen for donating a gas burner for our feeding scheme, as well as 810 liters of soup to our projects. Thanks also to Olivia for arranging the distribution to The Ark and to House of Hope soup kitchen, and to Francois that collected the soup for Bottelary. We appreciate your support so much, thanks to your help the 810 liters of soup was distributed quickly on a cold and very wet Monday night.

We were so blessed from various people that helped us for this visit. Firstly thanks to Sandy and Harold that joined us as volunteers and donated money towards buying 5 year old Martin warm clothes and shoes. Thanks also to Joan Snyman and her team of wonderful volunteers that prepared hot soup and bread for the 120 children that forms part of the feedings scheme, and that also spoiled them with chips and snacks. Thanks to Seppie from Care Bears that donated lunchboxes that we handed out at Bottelary and for the milk that we donated to Hernus Kriel old age home. Thanks also to Dr Shouket Shaboodien who donated the most beautiful toothbrush sets to each of the smaller children, as well as toothpaste and brushes for the bigger children and the adults. We had a talk about oral hygiene and we got promises from them all that they will brush every day!! Thanks so much everyone!! 

Helping What a blessed day with our pensioners. We served 100 pensioners with a loaf of bread and a goody bag filled with grocery items, as well as a hot meal of curry & rice. Thank so much to everyone that arranged the goody bags and that helped with the food preparation, and to all the volunteers that helped with handouts on the day and that donated bread! Your smiles and hugs brought so much happiness to these lovely pensioners.

Helping Angels visited Colleen’s Place of Hope and handed over collected goods, thanks so much to Anene Loots and Heidi Theron that donated clothes for the children, to Moshe Adir who donated money towards buying socks and pants for the little angels. Helping Angels also handed over fruit and veggies for the home, groceries, cereal and treats for the children. Thanks Colleen for the love and care you put into these children’s future! 

We were so privileged to spend Mother’s Day with the residents of Hernus Kriel old age home in Parow. We treated them to tea & coffee and served cake and snacks to make this day special. Nicole played a few games of Bingo with them, where they won prizes and treats, and we thank everyone who made it possible to give them each a little present of a soap wrapped in a facecloth with a packet of 3 muffins each that they could take home. We enjoyed all the smiles and will see you all soon for the Christmas in July party!

A huge thanks to the Bruwer family who handed over popcorn to Tygerberg Association for Disabled People in Goodwood. This brought a lot of smiles thank you so much for letting us know about this great charity!

Helping Angels visited Bottelary Farm project and played with the kids, served a hot meal of scrambled eggs, viennas and baked beans, as well as handing out popcorn, Easter eggs, lollies and fizzers to these very special 120 children from the Kraaifontein farms. A big thanks to Nulaid for the egg donations, to Deon de Jongh for volunteering, to JP Bruwer and his family for leading the worship and to Elizabeth for donating fizzers and lollies and Brian Renecke that donated Easter eggs.

Helping Angels handed over mieliepap, clothes and toys to House of Hope soup kitchen in Brackenfell, which Marlene distributes to the homeless in Brackenfell area that visits the soup kitchen. Thanks Marlene for the awesome work you are doing!

We handed over some goodies and clothes to Jellie at Mamawethu House of Safety in Bellville, and to Dina from House El Roi in Maitland. We hope that these grocery items and treats will make a small difference! Thanks to Jaco Louw for the clothes donated to the safe house, and to Theuns Hanekom for his donation to the safe house.

A big thanks to Deon de Jongh for handing over the donation of popcorn and party packs to Ncedelunthu Educare centre in Mfuleni. Thanks to NS Promotions for this donation and to Tasneem for the party packs.

Helping Angels together with the Regional Sales Manager from Trans Union, Ann Loebenstein and her hubby Harold handed out Easter eggs, popcorn and party packs to the 55 residents of Hernus Kriel old age home in Parow, to about 200 residents of Reyger Court in Brooklyn, to the children of Colleen’s Place of Hope in Mitchells Plain and to the House of Hope soup kitchen during Easter weekend. It was a wonderful experience to see the smiles and to spread some cheer during Easter!
Thanks to the wonderful staff from Trans Union that collected more than 600 eggs, as well as to Nicky’s Spotlight Promotions for the donation of Simba popcorn and to Cathy Grey & Grenco that sponsored us with easter eggs. Thanks also to the Adir family for their donation; thanks to all of you we could bring smiles to many faces this Easter weekend! 

A huge thanks to Alison Grinnell from The Grinnell Group that arranged for our pensioners to be spoiled with a weekly 1 hour Limousine Tour via Sea Point, Camps Bay,etc with 00HEAVEN (http://www.00heaven.co.za)
They organized an outing for about 8 pensioners in one of their luxurious limousines every week and made such a difference in these very precious older peoples lives, the limousine has a special magic – it brings smiles and a heavenly feeling to all those that experience the journey!
Thanks so much for giving them this special memories to remember forever!

Helping Angels donated R1000 to Jamie’s family to assist them with his medical expenses. Here is Jamie’s story:

On the 30th of March 2008, 1 year old Jamie Burger was rushed to the Stellenbosch Medi-Clinic hospital in the early hours of the morning after suffering from fever convulsions. Over the next couple of days, the doctors tried to bring his seizures under control and break the fever that was still spiking regularly, but to no avail.  Jamie was admitted to the Red Cross hospital where he immediately received the necessary treatment that Medi Clinic was not able to provide. Jamie’s brain activity was monitored more closely and administered medicine to reduce the number of seizures. Another brain scan was done, but this time it was what Jamie’s parents feared most. It showed that he had sustained the maximum amount of damage on both sides of the brain.

Jamie is currently in the care of the kind staff of Esperanza old age home, who give him all the love and attention that he needs. But it’s not an easy task. Jamie’s daily and medical bills, together with treatment given by various therapists are in excess of R12 000 per month. Please help us make the remainder of Jamie’s life as comfortable as possible. Any donation or assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Extreem Kwizeen  (http://www.extreem.co.za) donated more than 1000 liters of frozen soup, which Helping Angels handed out to the residents of Reyger Court in Brooklyn , Hernus Kriel old age home and to Bottelary Farms. Each resident received a 5 liter container with soup and a loaf of bread. We were also able to give about 300 liters of frozen soup to a soup kitchen in Edgemead.
We would like to thank Wynand from Extreem Kwizeen for always helping us, even giving us their bakkie to help with the handouts! Thanks for making this possible Wynand!!
Also a big thanks to the volunteers that helped during the day, without you this would not be possible, Storm & Llew, Francois, Cathy and the Helping Angels team members!

Helping Angels visited the children from Bottelary farms and served them a meal with cooldrinks and  snacks. Thanks to Nicole, Curt and Lance that volunteered, thanks Curt for sponsoring the rolls and party packs for the kids! A huge thanks also to JP Bruwer that helped with the music, singing with the kids and doing worship, this made the day very special!

Extreem Kwizeen donated 460 liters of soup that was distributed to Mamawethu House of Safety in Bellville, House of Hope soup kitchen in Brackenfell, House El Roi in Maitland and the rest was distributed at Kuils River Police Station. Thanks Wynand from Extreem Kwizeen for making this possible! We also helped Mamawethu House of Safety with donations of milk formula and nappies for the safe house babies.

Helping Angels hosted a Valentine Pool Party for the children of Colleen’s Place of Hope in Mitchells Plain, at the Jan Kriel swimming pool in Kuils River. What a great day this was, the kids splashing in the pool and having so much fun on the jumping castle, with lots of spoils like boerewors rolls and plenty of cake and party packs to fill up their tummies! Thanks to Jan Kriel for sponsoring the venue, Elizabeth for the party cakes, Ellis Function Hire for the chairs and tables and Moshe Adir for sponsoring the jumping castle.

Helping Angels sponsored House El Roi with R1, 000.00 towards buying groceries for the residents of this home. They need supplies of fresh fruit and veggies, healthy meat and fish products and groceries on a regular basis, due to their funding not being sufficient. We hope that this donation makes it possible for them to prepare a few nutritious meals for these very special individuals.

Mamawethu House of Safety in Bellville is now up and running and we currently have two little angels in our care. Jellie (the house mom) named them Mark and Sam, since they had no names because they were abandoned right after birth. Mark was a premature baby and he is now 3 months, and Sam is 1 month old but much bigger than Mark.