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Car guards turn gift into a non-profit organisation

 

August 12, 2010

Three car guard received an Audi R8 and decided to use it to help others. Photo: Fritz Park via Flickr

Three car guards received an Audi R8 and decided to use it to help others. Photo: Fritz Park via Flickr

What would you do if someone gave you a brand new Audi R8 as a present? Two car guards who received such a car from a Cape Town man earlier this year did not selfishly enjoy their gift but are using it to help others.

They are planning to start their own non-profit organisation to help disadvantaged communities.

News24.com reported in the article Car gaurds trade Audi R 8 for NGO that: “Desire Shima and Fabrice Munganga- Mugala had initially turned the R1.4m Audi R8 into a ‘car for good’, by carving a slit into its bonnet for people to slide in donations and messages. Around the slit are words: ‘A Future for all’-words printed there by the original benefactor to inspire the guards.”

A Phillipi crèche that looks after 35 orphans have benefited from the goodwill of these men. They gave the money collected with the car to the creche, as well as books, stationery and clothing.

Now the car guards want to sell the car to raise the money to start a proper non-profit organisation. With the more than R1 million that they could possibly get for it, they could will be able to help many more people.

This has truly been a gift that keeps on giving. Do you have any ideas on how we can use the many gifts in our lives to help others? Leave a comment below!

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Do your bit to put a library in every school

 

January 26, 2010

Equal Education volunteers promote the "One school, one library, one librarian" campaign

Volunteers promote the "One school, one library, one librarian" campaign. From EE's Facebook page

More than 90% of public schools and more than 4.5 million learners in South Africa do not have a functioning school library.

Equal Education (EE), a community and membership-based organisation engaged in activism for improving South African schools, aims to change this by marching to Parliament on 21 March 2010.

They will hand over a petition to the government which asks for a library to be established at every school, a trained full-time librarian to be employed, and at least three books to be made available for every learner.

Equal Education already has the support of Dr Mamphela Ramphele, Sindiwe Magona and Zackie Achmat, but they also need our help.

They list various ways in which ordinary citizens can help their cause:

  • Donate money
  • Spread the word through Facebook, Twitter and Mxit
  • Join the task team meeting and volunteer your time
  • Sign the petition by clicking here
  • Support the EE book collection drive

This blog post, and our related Facebook & Twitter posts, is Creative Consulting & Development Works‘ way of helping.

Just like Equal Education, we believe “reading is the foundation of all eduction” and that this is “a matter of freedom justice and equality”, especially after we researched and compiled a consolidated report on the Western Cape Education Department Family Literacy Project Pilot.

For more information on Equal Education, read our previous blog post on the organisation here, or visit their website.

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