The Truck of Love is going from charity to charity, changing lives during the festive season and adding a little cheer to the end of the year.
Last year the Truck of Love visited four Johannesburg charities and brought some Christmas cheer to charities in need. This year the truck is taking to the streets once more with four new charities in its sights.
This year the charities receiving a truck full of love are CLAW, Tumelo Home, Soweto Home for the Aged and Home for Hope for Girls.
CLAW
CLAW is a welfare organization, renowned as the pioneer of community based primary veterinary care in South Africa. Services include: sterilization, vaccination, parasite & pest prevention, emergency care and pet owner education. They are based in Roodeport.
They were given items to help with their outreach work and to spoil the animals within their care. Cora, the founder of CLAW was blown away by the donation which will see them through the festive season.
Tumelo Home
The word Tumelo means “Faith“, Tumelo Home was established in April 1996 by Dr Moses Thindisa and his late wife Orina Thindisa.
Tumelo Home focuses on residential and day care for the mentally and physically disabled children, this includes daily bathing, feeding, dressing and also provides the children with stimulation programmes to empower them.
The Home started as a day care centre but later on turned into a 24hr operational centre the reason being that parents would bring their children using false addresses and details with the intention of not coming back to collect them. The centre currently accommodates 32 children, in which, approximately 70% of the them are either orphaned, abandoned, abused, or come from a poor background.
Soweto Home for the Aged
The Soweto Home for the Aged has been running for 30 years and takes care of the homeless, the destitute, the neglected and the needy elderly persons of Soweto. This donation will bring them great joy over the holidays.
The home is currently caring for 122 elderly persons with full board and lodging, and full-service delivery in the best interest of the older person. The residential structure consists of 6 cottages that accommodates non-frail elderly, and a frail wing that consists of 5 rooms for males and 5 rooms for females with a total of 57 residents. The frail wing employs Professional Nurses and Health Care workers that provide 24 hr medical care and check-ups.
Home of Hope for Girls
Founded in 2000 by Khanyisile Motsa, and run under her diligent care ever, Home of Hope for Girls, is an autonomous, self-started initiative to provide real care for exploited, trafficked and abused children in the city of Johannesburg. It is more than just a residential shelter; it is a loving home where dignity is restored, the past is healed, and the girls are given the tools to take control of their futures.
Home of Hope also reaches out to the community offering the most vulnerable members support, practical help and a lifeline. Home of Hope is engaged in increasing awareness of the plight of children on the street, in very poor homes and those in brothels in Johannesburg inner city. Their reach includes public awareness and awareness among the children themselves. For example, education on the dangers of HIV/AIDS, drugs, prostitution and other forms of crime and offering hope by way of choices to the children.
This year’s truck of love has really touched so many lives. Our hearts are so full seeing all those donations go to such worthy causes.
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