• Share the Warmth This Winter | Blanket Drive

    Many people in our community are facing the cold without warm blanket's or heated homes. The needy, homeless and destitute winter brings unbearable circumstances, sleepless nights and hunger.

    You can help by supporting our blanket drive

    Your donation will help IAHV provide warmth to those in need.

    R0.00 donated

  • Health and Wellness Day – KZN

    IAHV volunteers will be embarking on a Health and Wellness Day at the Dr Macken Mistry School, Sea Cow Lake in Durban on Sunday 18th May 2025 from 8:00am -12:00pm. The following services will be offered: Blood Pressure and Glucose consultations.

    We are in need of medical professionals to assist us in conducting the above mentioned services. Your confirmed participation would need to reach us no later than the 11th  May 2025. Please do include your contact details and or an email address in order for us to provide further communications

    Also we are in need of the following medical supplies to assist:

    • Glucose strips
    • Blood Pressure Machines

    Additionally:

    • Surgical gloves
    • Proper bins for correct disposal of strips and needles
    • Cotton wool, alcohol swabs
    • Prickers / Lancets
    • Band Aids/ Micropore
    • Sanitizers for scales and hands of medical staff

    We hope that you will be able to assist in the spirit of coming together and jointly allowing us to make an impactful difference.

    Please feel free to reach out should you require any additional information.

    Contact: Vijaylakshmi Sewnarain

    Email: vijay.sewnarain1@gmail.com

    Tel: 083 777 7672

    R0.00 donated

  • Edamini Combined Primary School

    The Edamini Combined Primary School project is dedicated to transforming the lives of students at Edamini C.P. School, a rural school nestled in the heart of Shongweni, KZN where many children face the daily challenges of poverty. These children, many of whom come from homes weighed down by the harsh realities of poverty, deserve a place where they can feel safe, inspired, and valued. We seek to breathe new life into their classrooms with fresh, vibrant colours that reflect the potential within each child. By providing the basic necessities like stationery and uniforms, we aim to ease some of the burdens these young ones carry, allowing them to focus on their education and dreams.

    R0.00 donated

  • Nelson Mandela Youth Centre (NMYC) – Pensioners Day

    IAHV/AOL always used the Nelson Mandela Youth Centre and resources when needed at no cost for various programs e.g. our first YLTP, BWS workshops, Anti-Drug Forum, Maha Kriya’s, IMA events, food distribution during Covid, the flooding, the rioting, winter warmth etc.  Our volunteers have always been part of all outreach programs hosted.

    R0.00 donated

  • Immunity Packs

    IAHV’s new project “Immunity Packs” initiated by Vijaylakshmi Sewnarain from KZN with regards to the Covid 19 pandemic. An immunity Pack consist of: Fizzy C (1000mg Vitamin C, Zinc and echinacea) & 50g flu masala( turmeric, ginger & cinnamon). The benefits by having the immunity strengthened and those positive will have immunity improved to help heal.
    R0.00 donated of R10,000.00 goal

  • Sri Sri Gardening Project

    In this critical time of the Corona Pandemic (Covid-19) South Africans nationwide is suffering from the increasing rates of unemployment, as many people have lost their jobs as a result of the current pandemic and the subsequent lockdown. Our IAHV volunteers in KZN has embarked this new project, Sri Sri Gardening Project.
    R150.00 donated of R20,000.00 goal

  • Stand with Front Line Workers

    Overcome these challenging times with the unique online Healing, Resilience & Empowerment Courses (HRE). IAHV delivers an effective and scalable resilience building and stress relieving program, providing accessible stress-relief tools to large populations and small groups alike in complex emergencies.
    R3,000.00 donated

  • Stand For Humanity

    In this critical time of the Corona Pandemic, IAHV South Africa would like to stand with our most vulnerable and less fortunate communities. Many people are income compromised and are struggling to meet their daily essential needs.
    R229,761.00 donated

  • UTEC Xmas Hampers

    For many children and old people the daily requirements of food, clothing and shelter are more than precious commodities. With limited resources available to them, these children and elderly face each Xmas holiday season without much celebration and empty tummies.
    R0.00 donated

  • Health & Hygiene Program

    Spreading menstrual Education is registered under IAHV, India as a service project. The vision of the project is to empower girls and women with knowledge and awareness on menstrual health and hygiene throughout rural South Africa. Specifically, in areas where sanitary products are unfordable and menstruation-related stigma exists, thereby restricting adolescent’s girls and women in day-today activities (attending school and work).
    R500.00 donated

  • Breath Water Sound program for prison parolees & families

    We are preparing for a large BWS program (150 people) for the prison parolees and families of parolees / affected parties to be held on 26-28 February 2019.
    R0.00 donated

  • Siyaphambili Day Care and Pre-school (Eikenhof)

    This project is to provide meals for the kids. The school depends on donations and veggies they receive and cooks daily on the premises for the children. Volunteers from Lenasia sponsores groceries and vegetables and donated 300 masks.
    R508.00 donated

  • Youth Leadership Training Programme (YLTP)

    YLTP is a 7, 9 or 11-day Youth Leadership Training Program that works at both personal and interpersonal levels to transform the attitudes and behaviours of youth.
    R10,550.00 donated

  • Breath Water Sound

    The Breath Water Sound (BWS) program seeks to address the challenges of economically and emotionally distressed communities by empowering them. The first step towards empowerment is stress-elimination and inner confidence. This is where the Breath-Water-Sound workshop comes in.
    R100.00 donated

  • Obs Pasta Kitchen

    We are a weekly feeding scheme in Cape Town that offers support, community and a hot meal once a week. We also share lifeskills and healthy ways of dealing with stress with our guests, who are mostly homeless or unemployed. Our wellness programme, “WoW – Working on Wellness” (previously Working Wednesdays), is a life-changer programme for those ready to take the next steps.
    R18,350.00 donated

  • Prison Program

    The Prison Program objective is to make a life-transforming difference in the lives of all people within the criminal justice system, by teaching skills for reducing stress, healing trauma, and providing practical knowledge of how to handle one’s emotions, live to one’s highest potential and contribute to society.
    R1,050.00 donated

  • New Jerusalem Children’s Home

    New Jerusalem Children’s Home (NJCH) is a 24 hour Residential Care Centre which provides holistic residential care services aimed at addressing the physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual needs of traumatised, abandoned, orphaned, abused, and HIV positive children and vulnerable youth from 0-18 years.
    R2,000.00 donated

  • Love Where You Live

    A community awareness and upliftment initiative, based in Laudium, Pretoria that was created with the intention to care for and nurture the environment, which in turn creates a happier state of mind for the community.
    R0.00 donated

  • Comfort with Dignity for Girls

    Comfort with Dignity for Girls, alongside IAHV aims to reduce the high rate of student absenteeism and the dropout percentage from schools amongst young girls in South Africa by providing them with reusable sanitary kits.
    R316.00 donated

  • Tops and Tags

    IAHV and volunteers from The Art of Living in Midrand embarked on a project to collect bottle tops and bread tags in return for wheelchairs. It started with a single bottle top weighing a measly 2g and 750KG later brought about the purchase of 5 wheelchairs.
    R0.00 donated