www.juwele.co.za

YOU CAN HELP

 We need food for homeless and jobless people urgently. Contribute monthly an amount to help people. Your monthly contribution will help to feed children and their parents. We are in urgently need of a premisses for homless people and to start our work creation and other projects. Thank you for your support.

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ACC. NO: 621 176 428 78 

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DONATIONS

Angry Helper!

Just the other day a person came to me and he was really very upset. When he stopped at the robot a white man standing at the robot, begging for money approached him with a request to help him with money. The person asked him, why he would like to have money and the beggar said he would like to buy food for him and his family. The person turned around and went back to the Pick a Pay store. He bought some food for the beggar. He then went back and gave the food to the man. When he drove off, he looked back in his mirror, just in time to see how the man threw the food away and walk into the bushes. He was so upset about what happened, he don’t want to help any person again.

Why you must contribute to a registered organisation!

A few months ago I approached a man who was the chairman of a group of bikers, to help our organisation to raise funds to implement our projects. I did not hear from him for some time. One day he was telling people about their ordeal with a group of poor, homeless and jobless people. They as bikers collected some food and other needs as well as a stove and needs to start a soup kitchen.

He was telling them how they delivered all the stuff. After two weeks they went back with more food and other donations. When they came to the place where the soup kitchen was, there was just a room full of dirt. They start to ask around and to their surprise they found out that all the stuff was sold by the people whom they left in charged.

I did ask him why they just dump stuff to this people. Was it just to say they helped poor people or just to feel that they have done a good deed to pie their conscience? If they donated it to a registered organisation, could use it the correct way under supervision.

Sell the food and clothes!

We did years ago also think that you can help people by giving out food and clothes. At one stage we helped poor people three times a week with donations. One day I received a call from a person. He informed me that the people we help every week are selling the goods along the road to the township. Two of us did get into the car and drove off to the place. We did find them with all the stuff that we gave them, busy selling it. When I ask them why they do it, the man said to me they need money for food. I said to him, he is selling the food we gave them. They started with very long stories why they have to sell it. A man in a car stopped while we were there. He told us that they have been selling the stuff for some time and then went to the bottle store and buys some liquor. It is a few years back and I see them still begging in the streets.

This is just to help you to understand our vision for the Kairos Foundation. It is not the answer to just give handouts. This people need to be trained and helped to help themselves. They need an organisation to help them gain back self confidence. The thing is, with handouts we only help them to be beggars. We need funds to buy a property and to develop a centre and a haven for people that are homeless and jobless. We are not only going to help them, we are going to help their families and children.

Yes, we are not going to be able to help every person, because it is not anybody that wanted to be helped, but if we can help 20%, we are making a difference to 20% of poor people. We would like to do it the right way and with our years of experience, we know what to do. We will most definitely need help and if you would like to volunteer, please contact us.