Honoring Our Elderly in Soweto is a IAHV registered project. This project is to assist the elderly part of the Alpha World Ministries Social Care Centre in Soweto with Christmas hampers and food as part of Christmas celebrations. Many of these elderly are themselves care givers to children who have lost their parents due to HIV or have been abandoned etc.
Christmas food hampers of 230 bags of maize meal, 22 bags of rice , 22 bags of sugar and other basic needs was donated.
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The James House Community of Imizamo Yethu in Hout Bay were overwhelmed to receive Christmas Food Hampers this year filled with non-perishable groceries. Our hope was that these food packs would ensure these families had food on the table for a special Christmas meal, as well as food during the school holidays while James House was closed.
The success of this initiative was only possible with IAHV’s generous donation, which enabled us to purchase 100 x Yebo Fresh packs for this community. The food packs were well-received with much appreciation and the James House staff and families have expressed their heartfelt gratitude for the continuous support of IAHV and all volunteers involved.
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Looking at the current state of the world today, it may look quite dark at times. It becomes all the more clear that *a more peaceful world requires us to work deeply with psychosocial factors,* such as overcoming transgenerational trauma, shifting from self-centredness towards contributing, and broadening our human identity beyond national or religious identities. IAHV Peacebuilding is committed to this long-time endeavour.
In the midst of the current crises, IAHV and the Art of Living Foundation continue to apply their global expertise in supporting mental health and psychosocial wellbeing of highly stressed populations. IAHV’s self-empowering methods, scalable approach, evidence-base and cost-effectiveness are a unique added value in contexts of mass displacement and disaster.
We hope this newsletter provides you with some hope and light and maybe with the inspiration to contribute. As our new Ukrainian trainers testified, being able to do something not only helps others, but can also keep ourselves out of depression and despair.
_”The darkness has held us very tight but has not extinguished the light that illuminates our heart.” (Survivor Morocco earthquake)_
Christmas celebrations at the Bottlebrush Bottlebrush settlement in Chatsworth, Durban. IAHV assisted with the hamper donations and was organised by Prissy Govender the project leader. Huge smiles were spread across many faces on when the hampers were distributed to our LITTLE ANGELS. The Silverglen Rotary club also joined in. Nicam Insurance provided pizzas and cool drinks to the kids..
The Lenasia Havan Old Age Home is based in Lenasia, South of Johannesburg. IAHV assisted with the food hamper donations and was organised by Rakhee Devchand the project leader. On 10th December, Sunday 106 Senior Citizen were treated to a very special event. The Seniors were served with a scrumptious meals, ice cream and entertained with music, and enjoyed dancing. Our Seniors were happy with smiles on their faces. Our seniors were most happy and that was our goal. They appreciated everything IAHV did for them and blessed us all,
A BIG THANK YOU to all the volunteers who came to assist and selflessly contributed so flawlessly to a wonderful and very successful event.
The Sri Sri Feeding scheme project in KZN has been providing cooked meals weekly for almost 250 people.
We distributed 108 hampers last week. Please contribute generously to the scheme as we require more hampers.
Each hamper is approximately R260.00
Volunteers, together with IAHV donated 200 blankets. The beneficiaries were The Reuven Old Age Home, The Langelihle Old Age Home and the Homeless.
In celebration of Mandela Day, IAHV South Africa hosted a range of community-driven initiatives aimed at making a positive impact on the lives of those in need.
In KZN, 50 blankets were donated to learners and care givers who were affected by the recent floods at the Dr Macken Mistry Primary School in Sea cow lake, Durban.
40 food parcels was donated to the caregivers at the Youth Village Project in Soweto led by Aneshree Naidoo.
James House Child & Youth Care Centre in Hout Bay Cape Town led by Rucita Vassen.
This Mandela Day fundraising goal is to sponsor 50 kids from James House to a fun and educational trip to the Cape Town Science Centre and a gift pack of essential items, winter warmers and hygiene items. Also to honour the work and beliefs of humanitarians like Mandela and Gurudev by helping others, educating them which is one of the most empowering tools, showing love and compassion and igniting change in our communities.
OBS Pasta Kitchen in Observatory Cape Town, are a weekly feeding scheme in Cape Town that offers support, community and a hot meal once a week. We also share life skills and healthy ways of dealing with stress with our guests, who are mostly homeless or unemployed.
The Art of Living Centre in Chatsworth currently use the Summit Primary school hall for follow ups, Satsang and courses. We became aware that there is a plumbing, painting and electrical need for the children’s toilets at the school and decided together with IAHV to raise funds for this project.
Hygiene is of utmost importance and if these basic needs of the children are not taken care of, then it has an adverse impact on their well-being and basic functionality.
On Saturday, 10th June, volunteers as well as folk from the community came together to restore and paint the children’s toilets. Post Covid, this was our 1st project and the team came together with enthusiastic energy to serve, build and leave a lasting impact for the children. A few weeks ago, the plumbing was also attended to and we are proud to share that now two taps are installed for the children to drink water from and the water is not being spilled onto their school shoes.
Some of the painting and the electrical work is still to be completed so we have set aside a 2nd day to complete this project on 24th June at 8am! Join us and be part of the movement to serve, instil and inspire human values!
The International Association for Human Values (IAHV) is a worldwide organisation with a mission to make the world a better place by fostering globally the values that unite us as a human community.
IAHV holds special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
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