We are looking for a room for Uncle Desmond

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This morning when I took food for him I found him sitting down on the stairs.  So I said, not a day later than today, I will get him a room and still nothing after going from home to home , asked, everywhere …

Can I just tell you how poor people are abused here in the north, a room for one person R1200?

It’s no wonder people are so poor, what about old people who only get SASSA, what should they live if room / wendy costs them R1200?

No wonder people squat anywhere …

We are looking for a room for Uncle Desmond, if he can pay R500 a month, he has a R1100 ear for food, which is less than most people’s meat bill …

Ruth
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Cookies for Africa !!!!

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Cookies for Africa !!!!
Thank you for your continued support every month !!!
What began as a treat has become a necessity …

These cookies are sometimes the difference for somebody starting their day hungry or not …

People sometimes forget that when they pick up a person for piecejob, that person has to work on an empty stomach before he gets his daily wage that afternoon.

Now that’s where the cookies come in …
In the morning there is a row of people in front of my gate asking for something to eat before they can start their day.

May you be blessed for what you do for less privileged people.

Without a NPO number, without having to claim back from SARS, and without having to be advertised, they just give.

The owner does not have FB, and refuses to ever be photographed.

At Pretoria North, Medical Center ….
Borders on North Park Mall, Burger Street …

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Samantha was found!

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Update ….
She was found !!!!
She is in the Tswane District hospital …

Some concerned are welcome to go to visit,

It turns out that she has not received any visitors to date .. (under correction)

Samantha Smith now needs  support, and caring people around her.
If you are one, please visit her.
(Unfortunately, do not know what’s going on)

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Help needed…

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Update:
Never received any feedback from available rooms in Pretoria North.  People, Desmond will pay, there are also angels who have offered ..
If you know of a neighbor with a wendy or outside room, whatsupp me, I will talk with them and not mention your name.

We have also received no feedback from someone who can accompany the old people to apply for ID, s and I am willing to pay for your time. I will get their details tonight and someone offered to to help with identification of ID numbers.

Also, no feedback was received about Samantha’s well-being, but did not find the family, no information about where she found her, big headache …

Ruth
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I want to tell you about Uncle Desmond ..

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If I see him, I cry, it’s just so …
Also about some others, like uncle Chris etc ..

I want to tell you about Uncle Desmond ..
You will remember that all his stuff was stolen one day, but he struggled to town and sorted all out, he will get his SASSA from next month again.
That’s not what I want to talk about …

Uncle Desmond was a respected man in Pretoria North, he is very affectionate, people who know him say he was one of the hardest working people they knew before his stroke.

He is paralyzed in his left side, but he is still self-sustaining and asks no one for help …

His whole life is in a cold drink crate.

During the day he sits next to Nando’s, on the stairs, nobody asks anything, because he has nowhere else to sit.
In the evening, someone carries his crate with blankets and earthly possessions to Blue Bull paints to sleep there, it’s his daily existence …

He loves Pretoria North ….

People from Pretoria north I beg you, because he begs me every night, he wants to rent a room / wendy, just for sleep, he will not be bothering you, he can no longer get up and down with his crate.

Please help with some shelter, where he can safely lay down his head and where he can return to every night.

Unfortunately, his SASSA does not allow for thousands of rands for accommodation, we are looking for an outside room, wendy anything in the north ..

Ruth
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We need someone to help with ID and SASSA applications

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Guys, we received donations from you and would like to use it as follows: we have about 6 old people on the street who do not have IDs, we need someone to help them.

If they have IDs, they can apply for SASSA, and we have a chance to get them out of the street.

We are willing to pay for this sacrifice.

I myself can not assist them with this, we work full time.

In addition, they do not know their ID numbers, but birth dates, I hope so here is someone who can help us with this.

Furthermore, uncle Chris will not be able to go.

We may also need the person to help them apply for SASSA.

Please, we will pay for your time because old people can not sleep on the street …

Pretoria north

Ruth
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Three street people died in one week.

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Three street people died in one week.

Billy, Peter, and last night this uncle …

He went to sleep and just did not wake up again, we still wanted to find a safe haven for him. This uncle was blind in one eye, always silent, never said a word …

And we still do not know what’s happening to Samantha after the ambulance came to her last week.

It’s not fair that people die without feeling how it feels to sleep in a warm bed with a full stomach …

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I fully understand why some street people prefer the street…

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Ugggg, I stand by my street people, they are much less judgemental than their families.

Never has a street person told me how bad his/her family is, and that it is their fault that he / she is on the street, but when you speak with the family it is a completely different story.  I thought I’m already armored against this and then I also get it from the family…

I fully understand why some street people prefer the street…

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Have a bit more understanding for the families…

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Hi your nice people ….
Today I want to confess that when we started this project I was terribly condemning to the families that allowed their brothers, sisters, etc. sleep on the street..How could they!!

Later I gained more insight, and changed my views about that.

I still feel kids and old people do not belong in the street, suck it up buttercup, take care of your child, your mother, your father regardless of ….

However, I would like to mention, where does it leave you when an addict stole everything you have and sells that to support his habit if he does not think he’s having a problem?

I mention it so that people may show a little more understanding of families who have families on the streets.

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Looking for friends or family of Samantha

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Guys, you know Samantha who slept across Checkers, next to Nando’s.
I just received news from one of our street children that a week ago, a Samaritan called the ambulance for her after an incident.

Can her family or friends please contact me.
Ruth
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Thank you, Gasland & Solar.

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I do not think these people realize what big impact they have on this project …

Gas in general is expensive and they donate month to month and as we need gas for this project.

Without gas we can not cook for the people the street and they understand it. Without expecting anything back, we simply exchange the bottles, month after month.

In addition, their prices remain the lowest.

Gasland and Solar, Madeliefie Center Pretoria North … please support them.

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Lord, please let IronMan return safely, please give him a courage.

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Thursday afternoon, no money, no nothing … would go north, still no sign of Ironman in the north.

I asked him one day whether he’s praying. A lot he said, he’s going to church every Sunday too.

Do you know what’s amazing, he does not get angry because the hospitals keep changing his dates, he keeps going back without arguing or getting angry, waiting and waiting and coming back, collecting his plastic, taking care of his people and trying again.

Lord, please let him return safely, please give him a courage.

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