Johannesburg Golf Day

We held our inaugural Johannesburg Golf Day at the Bryanston Country Club on July 22 and were blessed with a most beautiful day.

The event was well supported by local golfers with twenty four Fourballs entered and wonderful prizes donated by local companies.

Funds raised will be used for the programmes we are running at our newly acquired 'drop-in' centre in Melville to help change the lives of street children.

Receiving their trophy from Peter Bain (second from left) are Brandon Weir-Smith, Ross Wellington, Sean Press and Paul Talidoros with I Care's Nevil Carrington on the far right of the picture.

Jeffares & Green

Six boys from our I Care school went on an outing with Jeffares & Green to the Kwambonambi Interchange. The visit was to show the boys what happens on a building site and to show them the many job opportunities available.
The boys had travelled for over two hours on the Jeffares & Green bus in pouring rain and spent a chilly day touring the site wearing their hardhats but all said they enjoyed their visit and found everything very interesting.
We would like to thank the following personnel responsible for this outing on behalf of the boys.
Dave Johnson who is the Director in charge of the Kwambonambi Interchange, Philip Wyatt - resident engineer, Odette Magnus - PA who took care of all the details, Sandile Nkomonde - environmental scientist from the Durban office, Christiaan who arranged the lunch and Neliso and Mdu who toured with the boys and answered their many questions. Lastly our thanks go to Charmagne Denny who arranged this outing.

Feeding the little ones

On Monday July 18, Nelson's Mandela's 93rd birthday, I Care and Foodbank along with volunteers from Execuline and Virgin Active Gateway met up at Bambisandle Primary in Kwa Mashu. The school is home to 700 children, 70% of whom live with HIV. The school is in an extremely poor area and the food prepared was possibly their only cooked meal in a week!
I Care and Foodbank supplied curry, rice and vegetables as well as a hamper for each child to take home. Virgin Active and Execuline donated juice for the children and spent a lot more than their suggested 67 minutes with us.
It was heartwarming to see the many grateful faces but also heartbreaking to know that they don't enjoy food regularly.
Well done to Lucia from I Care and Ntomby from Foodbank for championing the whole event.

93 years young

This is a photograph of the Mandela mural which was donated to I Care by a group of volunteers from SABC 3. The mural was painted by Tawanda Mhandu who travelled from Polokwane and was assisted by Nancy Ginindza and Joel Karabo Elliott. Ismael sang for the boys and several SABC staff members added their support. They also prepared and planted a vegetable garden which the boys have promised to maintain. All this was part of their 67 hours helping people less fortunate than themselves to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 93rd birthday. I Care would like to pay tribute to all the members of SABC 3 who took time out of their incredibly busy days to help the boys.
I Care - boys and staff - thank them all for their kind gesture.

Golf Day Johannesburg

Here are some of the prizes that were 'up for grabs' at our Golf Day in Durban in May this year. We are hosting a second Golf Day - this one at the Bryanston Country Club on July 22 and we invite companies in and around Johannesburg to enter a team. R1,800.00 for a four-ball, which includes a round of golf, dinner and a prize-giving ceremony, is not a great deal of money and it is for such a good cause - a better life for a young street child. If you are unable to enter a team how about adding to our prize list or perhaps sponsoring a hole for R1,000.00. For more information call care-line 086 470047 or send an e-mail to info@icare.co.za.