Our Beneficiaries
Eagle's Wing and Feeding with Passion
Our main focus is feeding the community around them, they prepare meals and feed communities. We can cook more meals and the feeding program has grown to 500 kids fed in Roosendaal twice per week and 35 kids every Sunday morning.
There is obviously more coming because the word is spreading but currently, that is all who we can assist. There are times when food is not enough t feed everyone, and it is really heart breaking to send children away without anything to eat.
Besides the feeding , we also distribute clothing, hampers and clothing with both Roosendaal and Delft South, Eindhoven and other surrounding areas as the need arises. We also assist other feeding Schemes and Organisations where there is need and homes destroyed by floods and fire. We also hand out and donate stationary, toiletries and other needs as it arises.
Kid's Haven
The centre was started by Moira Simpson, a Benoni resident and qualified social worker, in October 1992 as a response to increasing numbers of children on the streets of Benoni and the violent deaths of two street children. Before she formally established the centre, Moira had been feeding and counselling children on the streets, but she knew that they needed to get off the streets before real healing could begin.
How We Work
Pre-care aims to prevent family breakdown and to strengthen communities to support their own children and families. Pre-care extends to outreach on the streets, a soup kitchen, and the community preschool.
In-care is the full 24/7/365 care and protection of up to 172 children and youth who live at Kids Haven. Children attend school and participate in many activities. While they live here we try to reconnect families with their children under supervision. Our intention is to reunite families.
After-care is the ongoing care to children now reunified with their families or youth living independently in their communities.
Our mission is to reach children in need, especially those without parental care, in providing shelter, protection, education, training and therapy. Our encouragement results in positive inclusion for discarded, neglected and abused children.
Kids Haven is dedicated to the care and protection of vulnerable children, including those with street connections, to support meaningful inclusion in society.
There are three Pillars of Care at Kids Haven.
Kathlego Day Care Centre
Kathlego Day Centre – is situated in Lindelani and caters for 31 children and has three staff members, two teachers and one cook. The day care takes care of children from the age of 4 to up to the age of 6. Kathlego survives mainly on the little school fees paid by parents. However the challenge is that the inflation rate keeps rocketing and parents skip months in paying their fees. This has a negative impact on the running of the creche and thus the reason why Kathlego needs to source support from outside.
Cherub Ministries
Cherub Ministries is a faith-based Organisation and registered Non-Profit Company operating mainly in Eersterust, Pretoria even though the scope expands beyond the boundaries of Eersterust. The
Organisation was established in September 2014 and our Mission is to serve and equip those who are
to receive salvation according to Scripture in Hebrews 1. Our Vision is to always show the love of Christ to the broken (women, children and even men) in the society.
The Leadership of Cherub Ministries are esteemed members of the local Church and Clergy Alliance,
The Eersterust Ministers Fraternal (EMF), where Pastor Danie serves on the EXCO as the Executive
Secretary. We are continuously looking for opportunities to assist in lighten the burden of the
vulnerable in our community by being actively involved in community projects, home visitations to the sick and elderly, counselling and spiritual care, feeding the homeless and the vulnerable, door-to-door and street evangelism, preaching and spreading the gospel on various platforms (including television), electronic distribution of Daily Verse of Encouragement (on social media), etc.
Windmill Park
Maria started her ministry, caring for children in 1994. With horrific sad stories of abuse – sexual, physical and emotional, children being orphaned by the HIV/Aids pandemic and abandoned, having “nowhere” to go, Maria took them into her own home/orphanage. At the moment there are 28 in the “family” ranging from baby to 28yrs.
Often children just wander in off the street and have no idea where their parents are or where their roots are. The Police and Social Workers also bring children to the Home. Maria explained “in our home we try and instil in them a sense of caring, sharing, of self-worth and belonging.
I try to feed and clothe them as best as I can. For 14yrs we have been struggling, sometimes we only ate once a day. Sometimes we could not afford bread. Maria used to help out at funerals to get scraps and left overs telling people they were for her dog she could feed the children some of them including her daughter used to faint at school from hunger.
Meat was a luxury and most of the time eating porridge /cabbage/spinach. What seemed like a life of hopeless and helpless struggling but have now been given hope as we are sometimes blessed with donations and the children are eating better.” Sadly the number of orphaned, abused and abandoned children is enormous and the task of turning their lives around is formidable, both from education and supplying basic necessities of food, clothes and shelter
We are an inter denominational and inter racial organization founded with the purpose of helping improve the lives of abandoned, abused, neglected and vulnerable children in the community.
We have several ways we assist please see the about us page for more information on our various projects.
We believe in making a sustainable and impactful difference in children’s lives in the long term and we need the assistance of kind, generous people like you who care about their community as much as we do to do so. We believe that by helping children we can help create healthy, high functioning, self-sustaining adults in the long term.
Siphumelele Care Centre
To create a community in which the needs of the vulnerable community members are met.
Our mission is to address social problems faced by the community members and render services to alliviate poverty so as to enable a better livelihood for everyone. We will strive to provide the vulnerable community members with love, care, support and guidance to where they can be offered help.
Giving Care to a disadvantaged community. The Care Centre is situated in the Mokgoba Community in Daveyton in the East Rand, Gauteng. It is located between the informal settlement of Zenzele Extension 26 and the formal township of Daveyton in ward 25.
Siphumelele Care Centre was formed on the 10th of March 2009 by seven (7) women who were driven by passion to address various problems in the community. The concerned women realised that there was a great need to address social ills within the community which included HIV/AIDS, TB Cancer, teenage pregnancy and parenting, crime, abuse, poverty, disability and aged members of the community. At this point, the name of the organisation was Siphumelele Home Based Care. The name of the organisation was later changed in 2012 to Siphumelele Care Centre as the centre is now offering more services than just Home Based Care. The creche, food garden, soup kitchen and the HIV/AIDS support group are the other services that led to the change of the name.
Sithabile Children's Home
The Sithabile Child & Youth Care Center was established in 1993 to rehabilitate and educate children from the farms surrounding Dawn Park in Eastern Gauteng. Originally a day care center up until 1997, it has since expanded into a home where the children receive love, meals, shelter and an education.
The centre initially operated from a residential house in Dawn Park, Boksburg which later became too small for the number of children who needed the services of the home. Support from 3M helped the organisation to obtain a plot and various donors helped the organisation to build dormitories for the children.
Sithabile creates a safe haven for children who are survivors of abuse, exploitation, and neglect. Sithabile also has a drop-in facility for children who are hungry, sick or cold. Sithabile is a place where youngsters can re-claim their childhood, learn to play and look toward their future with hope; a home where children can dream and know that others believe they are gifts to be nurtured and cherished.
As the project grew it was necessary to try and find ways of making Sithabile self sustaining. To this end a garden project was developed and vegetables are grown to supply the Home and allow for some income through the sale of the surplus. The organisation also has started poultry farming, which helps to provide the children with eggs for their meals. Geese and goats were also acquired.
At Sithabile’s inception it was recognized that one of the primary functions of the facility would be to provide a good balanced diet to the children in care to counter the effects of malnutrition a large percentage of children suffered from. The animals and garden have helped to provide the children with education on how to grow their own food and also an opportunity to interact with animals through helping with their care.
Donors
Food Forward
Established in 2009 to address widespread hunger in South Africa, FoodForward SA connects a world of excess to a world of need by recovering quality edible surplus food from the consumer goods supply chain and distributing it to community organisations that serve the poor. More than 80% of the food recovered is nutritious food. During the 2021/2022 financial year, we distributed 48 million meals and reached 875,725 people daily through a network of 2,225 beneficiary organisations, across South Africa. We achieved this at a cost per meal of only R0,68, due to the tremendous support from our donors, partners and volunteers.
One third of all food produced in South Africa is wasted while millions of vulnerable people are food insecure. FoodForward SA is the largest food distribution organisation in South Africa, alleviating hunger while reducing the environmental impact of food loss & waste by recovering quality surplus food from farmers, manufacturers & retailers to feed vulnerable communities. We call this cost-effective model Foodbanking. FoodForward SA is part of a global movement focused on alleviating hunger and reducing the environmental impact by diverting good quality edible surplus food
Live The Word Ministries
The church is birthed from the perspective of having a biblical, relevant, Christ-like church that will glorify God the father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
If one read the book of Acts, there are some practical aspects like prayer, the word, looking after the poor and sharing that speaks to every born-again believer. Today many churches have moved away from these instructions given to the early and church and became just another organization.
We are not against music, excellence and church programs. These things we will do and it is important , but will be secondary. Our primary focus is the word of God. People must come to church to hear and be taught the word of God chapter by chapter.
At Live the word Ministries, community equals church. We believe that the function of the church is to serve in our local communities. We strive to be a church that is active in building, uplifting and empowering people to find their God given purpose here on earth.
We distribute close to 1 ton of food every month to various NPO’s
The church supports Home churches with feeding schemes
More than 50 food vouchers are distributed monthly to the homeless and less fortunate