Poor box February 2020
Poor Box Dear Parishioners, thank you for your generosity that helps put smiles on faces and fill hungry stomachs. Over the past THREE months, your contributions have helped 5,083 needy people. Well done for helping us achieve that goal! Two of our SVP members open the Poor Box every week and count the money. We […]
Christmas Toys 2019
Christmas Toys SVP received over 30 toys from Cathy Williams’s ‘Kids Can’ Crèche. The children at Cathy’s crèche all bring a wrapped toy in December, and they donate these to SVP for distribution. SVP handed these toys out to the children of JC Crèche in Morningstar amongst much happy joy. Thank you ‘Kids Can’ Crèche!
Bags of Love – November, December 2019
Bags of Love – November, December 2019 St Vincent de Paul’s annual Bags of Love campaign held over November and December was another huge success thanks to the support from our generous parishioners. Our parishioners once again showed their concern for the poor and responded magnificently by filling 270 bags with great love and enthusiasm, […]
Hotspot Library
Hotspot Library, Kraaifontein Terence, a community leader in Kraaifontein, is doing amazing work. He runs a Youth Restoration Development Programme that offers children off the streets a safe place to go where books are available for browsing and which the children can borrow for reading and learning. All this from a converted 6m shipping container. Terence has around 300 […]
Scottsville Kitchen Christmas Lunch
Neville Brink and his wife cook and serve a meal to 60 poor and needy every Tuesday and Thursday from their home in Scottsville, and SVP has been assisting them for a few years now.
The tale of knits and quilts
Joan Gear, Lesley Schroeder and Vicky Haupt have between them knitted or quilted hundreds of beautiful quilts, jerseys, scarves and jerseys which we have given out to needy children at local schools and Mamawethu Home for abandoned children.