Pieter needs some help, please!

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Okay, so let’s try again …
I was forced to delete the previous post on Pieter because of all the negative comments …

Guys, we’re obviously a lot of passionate people on this page …

I’m just grateful Pieter and his family are not on fb, people here is a baby to welcome into the world soon, a new life, who knows, maybe a doctor or a lawyer or even president one day !!!

We know Pieter well enough through our journey to know how hard he works to make this a success, how many challenges he has to deal with.

This man has been through more than most, but giving up? Not Pieter …

We know they are not perfect, but who is ??

Any contribution will be a blessing, most important at this stage is more suitable accommodation, if possible less than R3000 pm ..
Pretoria north

Pieter
0844900312
Ruth
0731962956

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Feedback on Oupa Desmond

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Follow-up ….
Yesterday met with Sarie Minnaar and family, our angels …
It’s going very well with Grandpa Desmond, she says he’s so quiet she does not know about him …

If anybody may have very small, warm pajamas lying around, something like Long Johns, he’s so thin and small, maybe size 28-30 will be awesome …

He still pays off some money he borrowed on his SASSA, Sarie wants to buy, but I feel she’s doing so much … Anyone can help with any contribution of any kind, please contact Sarie per inbox. …
Sarie Minnaar ..

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Our street people really surprised us!

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Chef and I have taken leave yesterday because the thought that our street people can not make money in the rain and so can not eat  – unthinkable…

Thanks to Biscuit Mecca’s regular cookie donation, we were able to hand out hot coffee and cookies in the morning …

But we were surprised to see how they still work, gathering bottles in the rain, nothing prevents these guys. They learned to survive.

We are not their beginning and end, we are only a helping hand …

My heart goes out to the elderly who are still trying to work, the mentally disturbed ones for which there is nowhere to go…

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Thank you for helping Grieta!

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I would like to share today’s events with you, Pretoria Noorders you know Magriet / Grieta who is a car guard at the post office …

And sometimes you asked for a money here and there …
Well yesterday she had an epileptic attack on the street and got a bit hurt, a very concerned Danielle called us for help …

Today was a busy day, looking all over for accommodation, suitable for Grieta, many reached out, and with the help of our Heavenly Father we could succeed.

More details will be announced later, but I know there were many people in charge.

I want to reassure you, she is in good hands, her family is very happy with the place we got, she is calm and we believe and trust that she will be happy and she will definitely not have to stand guard over a car again.

And that’s how we help one by one, Danielle got the ball rolling by asking for help,

Jacques medic, as always, has organized and assisted an ambulance, Leona of Helping Hand has offered shelter, Erna cosmos has offered shelter,

In the end  we decided on Alet of Helpende Land new SASSA home in Pretoria North.

Petro, Grieta’s sister, picked up her at the hospital, took care of her and gathered everything with her colleagues’ co-operation needed for Grieta’s new home.

We need to get Samantha to rehab – PLEASE!

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I’ve never been, or maybe a few times before, so desperate as now !!!!
The hospital wants to dismiss Samantha, but we still do not have a rehabilitation center for her to go to !!!

She needs help, she wants to be helped !!! She is afraid and does not want to and can not go back to the street !!!
What do we do????

Family is NOT an option !!!

People please, if someone can get a rehab for her !!
If not, talk to the hospital to not dismiss her, or send her somewhere … please, I do not have contacts !!!
Ruth
0731962956
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Anybody who can help us take down, move, and erect a Wendy in Pretoria North?

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Hi guys, I want to take in one of our elderly on the street, I received a little wendy as a gift.

Anybody willing to take it down in Akasia, bring it out to me and help erect it, it is not big?

The winter is here, and the grandfather sleeps under a tree, I’m struggling to get help to sort out their ID, s and Sassa, now I have to make another plan.

If we can only sort out the old ones, this uncle has only one eye and I would like to get him out from under the tree.
I know it’s a lot of work, so I just take a chance.
Ruth
0731962956

Thanks a million – you are superstars!

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Remarkable people ….
I want to highlight this couple today, and people like Sarie Minnaar …

Nellie & Marius are young, recently married, normal working people, , like most of us but with a life ahead of them.
One will expect them to focus on themselves as most young married couples do.

But not the two, charity is the order of the day in their household …

Every time we found ourselves in a crisis, they just arrived, without planning. Usually to help distribute food, and before they went home they took one or two of our people with them.

For Uncle Naas, they gave housing before he left for his daughter, for Oom Koen and Tannie Driekie they gave a place to stay before they found their permanent place, and more recently and more extreme !!!

A mother who found herself in a position where she contacted me for foster care for her child. I shared the situation with Nellie and Marius when we distributed food,

That same evening they did what the rest of us are afraid of, it’s about a month later, boy is in a good place, Nellie’s words: I could not have asked for a better child, he rejoices our house, our hearts. ..

How do you explain that a child with “problems” that has been sent back and fort several times adapts that well?

All in the name of love …

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We need some help with IDs or SASSA applications, please.

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Hi guys, we have made no progress with these old people’s IDs or SASSA.
If anybody can help, this money will help us to put them in a safe haven.
As I mentioned before, I will pay for your time to assist with this.
Ruth
0731962956

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people do care/mense gee om : What we do…

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Ruth and Cenci (“the Chef”) does an amazing job on the streets of Pretoria North taking care of the homeless.  Everyday after work they start preparing meals for close to 200 people and then start doing their rounds at eight in the evening, dishing out food and attending to minor injuries.  Not only do they feed these people sleeping in the streets, they also find donations in all forms to clothe them, assist them with finding jobs, organise lifts to hospitals when needed, and even educate when the need arise.

Their ultimate goal is to find suitable space from where they can run a shelter offering these street people accommodation and meals they can return to after their day in the sun working as car guards, recyclers, and simply walking the streets trying to find employment.

This couple is not a registered NPO but simply do what they feel is the right thing to do.

The costs to cover the following most basic needs easily runs into R5000 to R10000 PER WEEK :

  • Food.
  • Electricity to prepare the food.
  • Fuel to distribute the food.
  • Medical supplies to attend to minor injuries.
  • A multitude of other expenses for example polystyrene containers to dish up in.

Ruth and Cenci does receive a fair amount of monetary donations every week from donors world-wide, and also a large amount of local food donations.  However, they still sponsor a large portion of these costs themselves.

And that is the reason we appeal to you for donations – 10 X R100 donations can cover the costs of their operation for one evening!

You are most welcome to follow their activities on their fb page at https://www.facebook.com/wheninneed/, and on their website at https://peopledocare.co.za/.

You may donate at any time.  Please deposit your donation directly in Ruth’s bank account:

Bank: Absa
Beneficiary:  Ruth Jacobs
Type: Savings
Account number: 58169366
Branch Code: 632005
Reference: Use the name of the person or the project you would like the money to go towards, else use “Mense Gee Om”

Please donate and share this page!

We need a room, please.

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Hi guys, this guy recently got a permanent post in Gezina, unfortunately he has to come to the north to sleep on the street because he knows the people here, he asked us to look out for a more affordable room / wendy anything in Gezina, please … around R500 a month, please share in Gezina area.

Thank you very much, he is a honey, we have known him for a long time.
Ernest
0660864923

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The absolute highlight of the week !!!!

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The absolute highlight of the week !!!!

Where do you start thanking people for such a love gesture?
Sarie Minnaar took in oupa Desmond without conditions …

I have honestly never met anyone who is so comfortable with people, this man is treated like a king for the first time, and he deserves it, for many years he worked very hard here in the North. After his stroke everything changed and he was forced into the street.

Yesterday we went  to pick up his last good stuff that he stores everywhere for safety – these old people are abused everywhere.

He borrowed a thousand rand on his SASSA last month as he did not receive his.  Even though two  ladies on the group donated almost the exact amount to him, he was so robbed … he has to pay back R450 every month until June’s, now that is bad, it’s almost double. I hope but his information is wrong.

This is a concern as it forces old people to keep borrowing to keep going, while they are getting so little already.

He also saved the rest of his money with the vegetable Tannie, got there, only to be told she only had R160 of the R1000 she “kept safe” for him ..

He puts his good walking stick and clothes in another place, and the little boy did not want to fetch it.

I had to cry when Grandpa Desmond said “no more 5 o clock” getting up and did not know where to go.

Yesterday he slept almost the whole day because for the first time in many years he was allowed.

No elderly person earn to spend their last years on a shop stoep to be chased and humiliated.

He was so so excited about the television yesterday, and he has to get used to the fact that his belongings are safe.

Sarie, your days will be blessed for what you did here, I’m convinced.

Thank you for all the donations, we were able to quickly set up his room without running around after bedspreads for bed and bedding, bedside table, TV etc.

Thank you, Lord, for sending this angel on our way.

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