Ikamva Labantu
- By: Candice Parkin
- Short URL: https://archive.backabuddy.co.za/ikamva-labantu
- Date Created: 9 April 2020
Personal message
Ikamva Labantu is adamant on safeguarding our participant network (and South African health care system) during this uncertain time. We are taking an active role in helping to flatten the curve of COVID-19 infections. Ikamva Labantu serves a large number of senior citizens andchildren within township neighbourhoods - two groups of people which stats have revealed to be the most affected and highest potential carriers of the coronavirus.
Ikamva Labantu’s safeguarding will be done through:
- The temporary closing of all projects (effective from 17 March)
- Education around the virus throughout the communities within which we serve
- Assistance with self-isolation to our participants in the form of the delivery of fortnightly food and hygiene packs
- Emergency response to participants in need through Ikamva Labantu staff members who will be on call
We are in the position to assist those most vulnerable, as well as play a part in protecting our health care system, but we cannot do it without you! Partner with us by making a donation towards essential food and hygiene packs. Each pack is worth R750.
We thank you for your active participation in stopping the spread!
Statistics
Fundraising target
R 1 800 000.00Donations to date
R 0.00Ikamva Labantu Charitable Trust
In the early 1960s, Helen Lieberman and other courageous activists responded to the unjust conditions of South African Apartheid by setting up survival initiatives in the Western Cape. In 1992, the coordination of these initiatives was formalised and Ikamva Labantu, meaning “Future of The People”, was launched as a non-governmental and non-profit organisation. Ikamva Labantu’s work focuses on early childhood development, the well-being of older persons and after-school initiatives that keep children safe and off the streets.