Children from the Rena Le Lona Creative Centre for Children received 120 pairs of school shoes and stationery packs from Miss Soweto Thobile Steyn...
Issued by OnPoint PR 22 Apr 2021
Seasoned hospitality professional Zaid Adams has been appopinted chairperson of StreetSmart SA, an organisation dedicated to helping vulnerable children rebuild their lives...
Reigning Miss Soweto Thobile Steyn knows first-hand what it feels like to not be able to start the school year on the right footing...
Issued by OnPoint PR 10 Mar 2021
For the Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, progress in education and enterprise development is the most direct means of improving the quality of life for South Africa's people and advancing the foundation's purpose to develop an inclusive and empowered society...
Issued by Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation 11 Feb 2021
As with pregnancy, nutrition is a particular focus of postpartum care. New mothers need the support to recover from the rigours of pregnancy and childbirth so that they can cope well with the different challenges presented by infant care...
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 11 Feb 2021
There are many factors affecting the global youth unemployment crisis. Tackling the situation starts with offering equal access to quality education...
Gabriel Hamuy 6 Jan 2021
Willowton Group donates R300,000 to provide baby essentials for fire victims...
Issued by Willowton Group 5 Jan 2021
Faithful to Nature unveils its first exclusive festive collaboration entitled the Artists' Collection. The collaboration is a partnership with local artists and designers to support The Zoe Project, a Cape-based non-profit organisation (NPO) that provides care and support to vulnerable children, mothers and pregnant women...
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (FMCSA) has dedicated extensive resources to assist communities and humanitarian organisations involved in helping the most vulnerable members of our society...
Issued by YFM 99.2 14 Dec 2020
This month's Marketing Mastermind is Alanta Moodley, category brand manager at Mondelez International. She discusses the Cadbury Dairy Milk Generosity campaign...
World Responsible Tourism Day (6 November) and World Safari Day (25 November) are soon approaching. These occasions recognise businesses and destinations that work to educate, inspire and improve the world through the power if tourism.
Government has said it is prioritising an economic recovery and fiscal consolidation and that the social compact agreed to between government, business, labour and civil society will prioritise short-term measures to support the economy...
Andrea Rademeyer, Issued by Ask Afrika 4 Nov 2020
For any development endeavour, there is always a need for accountability, and, in most cases, this comes in form of an answer to the question, "Did this make a difference?" For Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation, the answer to that question is held in its 15-year Impact Report, which was launched during a reflective and insightful webinar discussion on 22 October titled 'Impact through Partnership'...
Issued by Cyril Ramaphosa Foundation 3 Nov 2020
Kenya has made several reforms in recent years intended to expand health service coverage to a wider population, and with a specific focus on the poor, and to reduce financial hardship due to healthcare costs...
Edwine Barasa & Evelyn Kabia 23 Oct 2020
During the recent virtual World Education Week conference, 100 schools from across the globe addressed different topics related to the 'new normal' and learning in the 21st century...
While the lockdown regulations have eased, the hunger pandemic in South Africa continues to grow, according to Do More Foundation executive and trustee Warren Farrer...
The National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS) has received more than 160,536 applications from students seeking funding for 2021, since the opening date for funding applications on 3 August 2020...
According to the National Income Dynamic Study's (NIDS-CRAM) Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey, 2 million women were left unemployed in South Africa between February and April this year...
Established by The Mergon Group in March 2020 to help South Africa's beleaguered non-profit organisations (NPOs), the Gap Fund has already raised more than R7m from private funders...
The Smile Foundation is calling on the South African public for urgent support in providing care to patients and their families, as well as in addressing the growing backlog of children in need of surgery as soon as it is deemed safe...
A total of 35 tonnes of food, essential household items, sanitisers and masks - equivalent to 1,800 care parcels - were delivered to more than 3,800 orphaned and vulnerable children and their caregivers in Ga-Dikgale to coincide with #MandelaDay2020...
Issued by Nahana Communications Group 22 Jul 2020
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, food redistribution charity FoodForward SA has successfully distributed more than 4,000 tonnes of food to vulnerable communities...
This Mandela Month, UNICEF SA's #Pledge-67 campaign is honouring Madiba's legacy in the fight against the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic...
The MAMAS Alliance CSI Agency, together with Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA), are embracing the well-known "Give a man a fish" proverb, connecting corporates with grassroots NGOs to start or strengthen community market gardens...
Sindy Peters 6 Jul 2020
The MAMAS Alliance CSI Agency, together with Food and Trees for Africa (FTFA), are embracing the well-known "Give a man a fish" proverb, connecting corporates with grassroots NGOs to start or strengthen community market gardens...
Financial leaders are at a tipping point. The choices they are making today will become the bedrock of the industry for years to come...
Olga Arara-Kimani 6 Jul 2020
Adweek has included one of South Africa's leading admen - group managing director of FCB Joburg and Hellocomputer - Thabang Skwambane on its 2020 Creative 100 Honour Roll...
Issued by Nahana Communications Group 11 Jun 2020
It's estimated that in 2018 there were 2.7 million children orphaned in South Africa, most of them living in abject poverty with no care, love or hope for a better future...
Ilse van den Berg 10 Jun 2020
In December 2019, Unicef South Africa joined Prebo Digital's client list with a specific vision and strategy to grow their brand online and increase donor support...
The Free State High Court has ordered the provincial government to pay non-profit organisations caring for children, the frail and elderly, more than R120m in outstanding subsidies...
Tania Broughton 26 May 2020
Melanie Burke, chairman of StreetSmart South Africa, shares her lockdown lessons and how StreetSmart is navigating the lockdown in stages by keeping hope alive and preparing for the new normal...
Sindy Peters 21 May 2020
"For too long people have been concerned with what we do, as if that can explain who we are. I am a wife, a mother, a storyteller, a light chaser, and a lover of people. My camera is hopefully an extension of who I am," says Karin Schermbrucker...
Ilse van den Berg 13 May 2020
Through his clinic, Ndlovu Care Group, Hugo is known in the area as a generous and compassionate pillar of hope and strength...
Issued by The SpaceStation 29 Apr 2020
Woolworths has announced a commitment of over R34m to support a variety of initiatives to meet the challenges of the Covid-19 crisis in South Africa...
Our beloved Tata Madiba said that, "History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children." Perhaps just pause and read that again...
Ilse van den Berg 22 Apr 2020
Pick n Pay has established a 'Feed the Nation' relief fund to provide food and basic hygiene essentials to the most vulnerable during the lockdown period...
Following its R50m appeal in response to the Covid-19 lockdown, non-profit food redistribution organisation FoodForward SA has received over R11m in financial and food donation support...
FoodForward SA has launched a R50m appeal to extend its outreach footprint and get food to a wider network in order to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Adopt-a-School Foundation is facilitating a Health, Sanitation and Sexual Education Programme at Meriti Secondary School starting on 4 March 2020, as part of its Social Welfare drive during School Health Week...
Issued by Adopt-a-School 9 Mar 2020
The crown of more than 51,945 people at this past weekend's Match in Africa - which saw Roger Federer take on Rafael Nadal in a charity match in Cape Town - set a new world record for the largest attendance at a tennis match...
The Eastern Cape Division of the High Court in Grahamstown recently handed down a groundbreaking judgment upholding the right to education of undocumented children...
Jacquie Cassette and Tricia Erasmus 6 Feb 2020
In 25 years, South African tea company Joekels has developed from a small business housed in a garage into a category leader with seven different tea brands...
Four years ago the United Nations (UN) members states created a list of international development targets, known as the Sustainable Development Goals....
Marco Pomati & Shailen Nandy 15 Nov 2019
With International Day of the Girl recently marked in celebrating the achievement of girls worldwide, we're putting the spotlight on the local PowerGirls seven-year programme, which aims to transform vulnerable South African girls into outspoken and powerful young women, capable of becoming change agents within their communities...
Leigh Andrews 18 Oct 2019
An outbreak of measles that began in early 2019 in the southeast corner of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has now spread to all 26 provinces. Over 180,000 cases and more than 3,000 deaths have been reported...
Matthew Ferrari 8 Oct 2019
Malawi registers 34,000 new HIV infections annually, with young people making up 50% of the infections...
WATIPASO MZUNGU 14 Aug 2019
The Student Sponsorship Programme (SSP) is on the lookout for Grade 6 learners from low-income homes to apply for a five-year SSP scholarship to attend one of the programmes 25 partner schools. Applicants should be no older than 12, with marks of 70% and above in Maths, Science and English...
You may think: 'It's not my baby, it's not my problem'; or 'I am so uncomfortable, I have a right not to have a breastfeeding mom near me!' You would be wrong on both accounts...
Issued by Association for Dietetics in South Africa 6 Aug 2019
City Lodge Hotel Group marked Mandela Day on 18 July in Johannesburg with a team effort of 15 hotels coming together to refurbish parts of the New Jerusalem Children's Home in Midrand...
Issued by City Lodge Hotel 6 Aug 2019
Tastic Rice has stated the goal to provide enough rice to pack 5 million meals for families in need in South Africa this year. The brand's partnership with the NPO Rise Against Hunger...