Mar 2011 

GIVE RESPONSIBLY

Buy a voucher for R5 or R10

One of the organisations working with street people in our area is Home Street Peoples’ Ministry. You can support their work and ensure that your money is used constructively by buying a lunchtime meal coupons from Pick and Pay. Each coupon costs R5 and this money will be used to fund the soup kitchen which supplies hot lunches every weekday at their centre in Shelley Road, Salt River.

Loaves and Fishes is a second-phase shelter in Rochester Road. They supply hot suppers to street people on Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday evenings.   Meal coupons can be bought at the Observatory Spar in Station Road for R5 a coupon. By buying a meal coupon (rather than handing out cash) you know that your money will be put to good use. Whether or not the coupon is used, this money goes to Loaves and Fishes.

The first step towards getting a person off the street and into a programme is assisting him or her to find a place in a shelter. The nearest shelter to us is the District Six Haven shelter. R10 'passports' which enable a homeless person to sleep overnight in the shelter are available from the Observatory library.

These efforts are fully supported by the City of Cape Town, by the Observatory Improvement District, by the Observatory Civic Association and by NGOs that work in the area.