Teig Amos has his Bar-mitzvah this year and decided to raise money to help a woman who was robbed while visiting home… so he wants to help her out.
Cape Town, South Africa – It is a big year for Teig Amos, he is celebrating the coming of age as well as competing in his very first Midmar Mile. To mark the big year, Teig wants to give back to someone in need.
Teig heard about Maggie, a Zimbabwean woman living and working in South Africa that spent years saving up to help her family back home. Over the December holidays, she went home for Christmas armed with all the fruits of her labour.
Once she was there though, she got robbed of everything and had to show up completely empty-handed. This loss spoke to Teig and he knew he could use his big year to restore her faith in humanity. He set up a Backabuddy fund to raise funds for Maggie.
He wants to gift her everything she lost and whatever is left over, help out a second good cause. Teig hopes to reach his goal of R10,000. He has already raised R 6,620.75 towards his goal.
“My name is Teig Amos and this is the year of my Bar-mitzvah. I am swimming for my first time the Midmar Mile. To make this event more special I am donating to Maggie. The reason is when she was Zimbabwe for Christmas to see her family she got robbed and they took everything she had worked very hard for 2 years to give her family food, clothing and money.”
The rest of the money will be donated to The Rohan Bloom Foundation. The foundation was set up in memory of Rohan who lost his battle to Ewing’s Sarcoma.
The foundation worked with setting up a much-needed children’s hospice and palliative care unit in Cape Town. They teamed up with Paedspal to make this happen.
“Dr Meiring is [the] founder of Paedspal, a pediatric palliative outpatient care centre. Paedspal supports families trying to do the impossible and who are facing enormous struggles with children whom have chronic illnesses that may not be curable. They do this through their multi-disciplinary pediatric palliative care team that includes doctors, counsellors, social workers and therapists including aromatherapy, art and music therapy.”
At the rate Teig’s fund is growing, we have faith that he will be able to help out both Maggie and the Rohan Bloom Foundation.
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