67 things you can do in the name of our beloved Madiba now and all through the year...
67 things you can do in the name of our beloved Madiba now and all through the year...
1. Give away good second hand toys to us
2. Dollies, dollies clothes, toy bottles ect
3. Toy cars, planes, boats ....
4. Toy animals – plastic, wood, cloth...
5. Puzzles and games for pre-schoolers
6. Anti- waste paper for children to draw and paint on...
7. Picture books
8. Children’s encyclopaedias
9. Children’s atlases
10. Globes
11. Let us have your old clothes for dress up...
12. Set of small blocks – under R300 – the children love them...
13. Percussion instruments – drums, shakers, bells, rhythm sticks...
14. Give a set of unit blocks to a pre-school – they last forever and cost under R2000
15. Give a chemical toilet to one of our schools (about R300).
16. Face cloths
17. Do some of our printing for us
18. Do some of our laminating for us
19. A laminator?
20. Give powder paint – red, blue, yellow, black, brown and white...
21. Give pre-school pencil crayons
22. Give oil pastels
23. Give coloured chalk and chubby crayons
24. Give clay (20kgs for about R200)
25. Give playdough or the ingredients to make it.
26. Give sticky tape and string
27. Give paint for painting the pre-schools
28. Give building materials like metal sheets, poles, ceiling boards, nails, and leak fixing materials or money towards it.
29. Collect usable waste like boxes of all sizes from match boxes up, tins, containers, bottles...
30. Let us have your old clothes for our teachers to sell for fundraising
31. Donations for raffles for our teachers to fundraise with
32. Food donations for the centres not receiving help for this yet. (A little each month would really help.)
33. Your artistic abilities to paint murals on the walls
34. Plants (non-toxic) for the playgrounds
35. Trees for the playgrounds
36. Vegetable seedlings for the vegetable gardens
37. Benches for the playgrounds
38. Jungle gyms and swings
39. Sandpits
40. Water play basins
41. Bats and balls, stilts, skipping ropes...
42. Sand and water play toys
43. Cots for dollies
44. Shelves for toys
45. Tables for art and eating at
46. Kitchen furniture
47. Kitchen ware (can be second hand)
48. Your old but still usable pots and pans
49. A bakkie – we need a second hand hardwearing workhorse...
50. Containers – laundry baskets, buckets, bowls...
51. Money for labour or the offer of your building expertise...
52. Help on our work days
53. Your help with fundraising for us...
54. Financial help – we to do so much to help centres on their way to registration
55. Help towards our dream of a demonstration/ training/ OVC centre in Slovoville
56. Help with accessing Green solutions to building
57. Water tanks
58. Composting toilets
59. Solar power units
60. By hugging your child each day
61. Listening to your child each day
62. Playing with your child each day
63. Taking care of our children by watching over all children in our communities
64. Supporting ECD practitioners training so that they can do a better and better job
65. Supporting a pre-school ...be you an individual or a group – eg a well-resourced church or pre-school.
66. Learning more about the real needs of children in our country
67. Asking us ‘what can I do to help?’