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Competition Time – SMS and WIN!
Competition time! Yes – non-profits can run competitions, and this competition is possibly the BEST WIN-WIN there is! Not only do YOU stand a chance of winning an awesome getaway for…
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And the Effect Keeps Going
Durban North-based non-profit organisation Indlela has unveiled its new name, The Domino Foundation, together with a new corporate identity and website, www.domino.org.za However, the outreach programmes that have positively impacted…
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Student Social Workers at Indlela
This term Indlela has had the privilege of helping 2 social work students complete their honours at the schools on our INDLELA Learning for Life programme. Natalie Ogden sheds some…
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Are you ready to adopt?
Seeing the smile on the face of a baby as he recognises his mother in a crowded room… That same child’s crying face as he’s scared to take his 1st…
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CURVES: Food Drive 2012
Over the past few years CURVES Durban North has proved to be a stalwart supporter of local NPO Indlela’s feeding programme, using imaginative initiatives to collect impressive stocks of non-perishable…
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Response to Weekend Shoot-Out
This morning’s article in the Mercury (link: http://www.iol.co.za/mercury/police-shoot-11-dead-1.1263376 ) makes us aware of the reality that the community of Amaoti, face each and everyday. Speaking to our youth workers, they…
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Bright Beginnings for Back2School!
The children at an Amaoti crèche had a bright start to the school year when Integra Scores, a BBBEE verification agency, threw them a party with all the delicious treats that children…
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Party Babies!
The late Whitney Houston famously sang “I believe the children are our future” and if that is the case, given the plight of so many of South Africa’s children, we…
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Holiday of Hope
For most of us, holidays play a prominent part in our childhood memories, familiar destinations for an enjoyable meander down memory lane. But there are many children who do not…
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Fairhavens Farewell’s
Linda Davis, House Mother at Fairhavens Babies Home Saying ‘goodbye’ to people we love is always sad but when the staff and children of Indlela’s Fairhavens Babies’ Home waved farewell…
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Winter Warmth Comes To Amaoti
“As Rotaract Club of Durban we have worked closely with the Winter Warmth project run by ECR, Hub and Rotary in previous years. So when applications were due for this…
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KPMG Counts the Costs of Charity
The staff of KPMG Services were so inspired by the success of there decision to donate a portion of their 2010 year-end functions fund to Durban North-based NPO Indlela’s projects…
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The Greatest Gift Of All
Last week Sifiso Hlongwe, our Learning for Life Youth Worker, was beaten up at the local Amaoti police station by four policemen. They had asked him to move our marked…
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‘Unlimited’ Opportunities
Indlela has launch a new creche development programme in partnership with The Unlimited Child, an organisation that focuses on early childhood development. For the past few years Indlela has been…
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Saying YES to Environmental Friendliness
This term Indlela’s Learning For Life programme has teamed up with Clover and YES by placing recycling bins at each of the schools on our programme. The bins have been…
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Making The Calories Count
The ladies of CURVES gym have already proved themselves to be stalwart supporters of Durban North-based NPO Indlela but this year they outdid themselves with a truly impressive donation of…
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Spreading The Easter Joy
Spreading The Joy Of Easter Children in Amaoti experienced the joy of Easter when Indlela delivered Easter Eggs to the schools and crèches that we work into over the long…
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Safe Havens For Students
Maris Stella & St Mary’s girls united this weekend to paint and decorate two counselling huts for our Learning for Life team. Indlela’s Learning for Life Programme is a HIV…
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New Toilets For A3
This week we received the go ahead from a corporate donor to build a set of 10 new toilets for Amaoti 3 school. The school currently has 6 toilets for…
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Faith In Action
Capt Dlamini phoned me two weeks ago this Monday. He asked me to see if I could help place a young girl he knew into a Durban North school, so…