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Newsletter | May 2006

Greetings

Many of the commemorative days of May bring to mind health, family and nurturing. Among others, there is World Red Cross Day on the 8th, World Move for Health Day on the 10th, International Nurses Day on the 12th and the International Action Day for Women's Health on the 28th. Of course, the big UN day of the month is the International Day of Families on the 15th of May, and South Africa's Children Protection Week starts on the 29th of May.

Above all, we haven't forgotten Mothers Day on Sunday the 14th of May - we wish all South African mothers a very happy day. You can find a special gift for your Mom at the Good Shop. Alternatively, you could support a Teachers Dream or a Cause Wishlist in her name. If you're thinking about making a donation in celebration of your Mother, consider our Causes of the Month, accountable organisations caring for orphans and vulnerable South African children.

To make your experience of our Newsletters simpler, the content has been summarized below. Please click through to read more about a topic that is of interest to you.

Theme of the month

Nurturing and Families
The impact of caring adults on children cannot be under-estimated. Deprived of day to day interaction with adults who are intensively focused on them, children have little chance of growing up to participate productively and constructively in their societies.
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Cause of the month

Strengthening Communities to Care for Children
Models of community-based care for orphans and vulnerable children are widely recognized as global best practices favoured over institutionalizing children. Here you will find excellent organisations providing community-based care for children.
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Cause of the month

Good lifestyle Choices

Top Gift Choices for Parents and Children
One of the top gifts for parents, available from The Good Shop, are The Parent Centre Gift Certificates.
Also, browse Ubunye Children's Gifts, a selection of beautiful, handmade delights.
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Experience the Gift

Thank you
An important part of the dynamic of giving and receiving is knowing that you have made a positive impact on the lives of others. Here are our latest statistics plus reportbacks from child and parents projects that will warm your heart.
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What are you good for?

It is easy to support the current Wishlists of The Parent Centre, Childline and Children of the Dawn. You might be able to donate the items they need, or make a contribution. Remember that you can use AMEX membership points, eBucks or Nedbank Greenbacks as donations on www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za
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Theme of the Month

The Future is Nurtured by Families

As nurturing families are the looms where a country's future is woven, so dysfunctional and disintegrating families unwind the very fabric of society. In South Africa, poverty and HIV/AIDS wreak havoc on a vast number of families. Where family structures have been broken down, communities need help from the nation as a whole. The non profit sector plays a vital role in delivering services to enhance the abilities of adults to provide safe, nurturing communities for our children. In response to the AIDS crisis many new and effective non profit organisations have been founded to help vulnerable communities care for orphaned and vulnerable children. You can help strengthen our country by supporting the work of a bona fide non profit organisation.

Read More about the International Day of Families on 15th of May 2006.

Our Causes of the Month

Read more about the inspiring work of these Causes.
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Good Lifestyle Choices

You Make A Good Lifestyle Choice When You Shop At The Good Shop

The Parent Centre Gift Certificate and Membership R100

This beautifully designed gift certificate comes with the knowledge that a family has been supported through The Parent Centre's support programme. And it comes with full membership to The Parent Centre for one year. That means you can benefit from regular newsletters, discounts on parenting and childcare workshops and access to an amazing collection of resources including a very well stocked library of interesting family / childcare and parenting reads.

Parent Centre Gift Certificate, Membership and Workshops R500

This beautifully designed gift certificate is designed to welcome a new baby and comes with the knowledge that another family has been supported through The Parent Centre's mother-infant support programme. It comes with full membership to The Parent Centre for one year, and gives you a three month membership to the Parent Centre's "Mom and Baby" support group as well as entrance to two workshops of your choice run by the Parent Centre during the year. Parent Centre membership means you can benefit from regular newsletters, discounts on parenting and childcare workshops and access to an amazing collection of resources including a very well stocked library of interesting family / childcare and parenting reads.

Ubunye Children's Gifts

Ubunye is a job creation collective specialising in high quality, safe children's toys for family fun. Choose from games, soft toys, aprons, elephant cushions, pan pipes and bottle top shakers.
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Experience The Gift

Thank You This Is The Fantastic Difference You've Made

Latest Reportbacks

  • Abangani Enkosini/Alexandra Children's Haven had no idea how they were going to buy school uniforms for a number of orphans in their care. Then a private donor made a generous donation to them through Greater Good SA.
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  • 11-year old orphan, Thando Sibiya was all smiles as he showed off the new Woolies shirt he received through Heartbeat.
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  • A Maid Foundation donation to Children of the Dawn extends the live-giving sponsorship of 10 orphans in Bushbuckridge.
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  • Thanks to a donation to The Parent Centre 2 Gugulethu.Guidance Teachers, Nozizwe Tshongaye & Eunice Mabuya were able to attend the "Closing the Gap" workshop.
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Latest www.GreaterGoodSA.co.za Statistics

  • 1,219,096 Page Hits
  • 727,989 Unique New Visitors
  • R3,534,847 in Donor Funds
  • More than 40,000 surplus /second hand items redistributed
  • More than 4,000 person hours volunteered
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What Are You Good For?

The 2006 Donate-A-Book Campaign

Thanks to those of you who have been wonderfully generous and already donated starter libraries and various other book resources for our beneficiaries this year. It is so easy to give a South African child a joyful experience of reading. The small gift of a book makes a big difference in the life of a child. You choose if you would like to donate a storybook for a pre-schooler, a book for a blind child or a starter library for a poor school. This campaign runs up until World Literacy Day in September. Donate a book here

Wishlists

The Parent Centre needs 6 urns for their parent support groups meeting in the Western Cape townships. Can you help?

You can make a real difference to the life and education of a vulnerable child by making a donation to the CINDI Singatha School Uniform Fund.

Childline requires donations for play therapy materials, stationary items and updated computer software.
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