Education is an important part of growing up and these are the organisations making sure children get the education they deserve.

South Africa (30 January 2024) – Education is vital for the development of healthy children. Learning to read and write and having access to educational support, financial support and emotional support all play a vital role in just how well-adapted a child becomes.

On this list, which is a new one at Good Things Guy, you will find homework clubs, reading charities, schooling infrastructure organisations and more. This list is in no way comprehensive. As we work through the year of 2024, we will hopefully grow this list.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com, and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note that this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them! If you are looking for child protection and welfare charities, you will find that list here.

• African Angels (Working in East London) – Website / Facebook
• Afrika Tikkun – Website / Facebook
• Book Dash – Website / Facebook
• Breadline Africa – Website / Facebook
• Elsen Academy (Working in Gqeberha) – Website / Facebook
• Good Work Foundation (Working in Mpumalanga and Free State) – Website / Facebook
• Hero in my Hood – Website / Facebook
• Knysna Initiative for Learning and Teaching (Working in Knysna) – Website / Facebook
• Learning in Reach – Website / Facebook
• Masicorp (Working in Masiphumelele, Cape Town) – Website / Facebook
• Nal’ibali – Website / Facebook
• Over Ed Centre (Working in the Overberg) – Website / Facebook
• Primary Science Programme (Working in Cape Flats and Overberg) – Website
• Primestars – Website / Facebook
• Safe Study (Working in Lorentzville, Johannesburg) – Facebook
• Signa Trust – Website / Facebook
• Tangible Africa – Website / Facebook
• The Amy Foundation (Working in Gugulethu and Bonteheuwel) – Website / Facebook
• The Do More Foundation (Working in Northern KZN) – Website / Facebook
• The Domino Foundation (Working in Durban) – Website / Facebook
• The Learning Trust (Working in Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook
• UWC Fairy Godmother (Working in Cape Town) – Facebook

Sources: Supplied

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Limpopo has a wealth of wildlife but is more rural; animal welfare organisations are working to get much-needed care to both domesticated and wild animals.

Limpopo, South Africa (13 January 2024) – Animal welfare organisations make the most difference in South Africa. There are thousands of people working to help millions of animals. Our comprehensive charity list grows and evolves every year as we add more good causes to the list. This is the 2024 list for the Limpopo province.

The Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists since the start of the pandemic in 2020. They were created as tools to help people find help or offer it to causes close to their hearts. Over the years, the demand for these lists has grown and today, we are excited to share our lists for 2024.

Our charity list was usually one long one but we have found, with the help of insightful readers, that one list is too much to work through. This year we are splitting the list into various categories. This list features all the animal welfare organisations we have featured over the years and can vouch for.

We are doing things a little differently this year. We now have nine animal charity lists, one for each province and a tenth featuring South Africa as a whole. Below are all the organisations that work in Limpopo to make a difference, you can find the other provinces here.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note that this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

These charities include all kinds of animal welfare organisations. We have simplified the search process for you by adding the following codes:

B – Birds, C – Cats, D – Dogs, F – Farm, H – Horses / Donkeys, W – Wildlife, and O – Other.

• Animal Relief for Rural Communities (Working in Phalaborwa) (D) – Website / Facebook
• C.A.R.E – Centre for Animal Rehabilitation and Education (Working in Phalaborwa) (W) – Website / Facebook
• DAKTARI Bush School and Wildlife Orphanage (Working in Hoedspruit) (W) – Website / Facebook
• Hoedspruit Animal Outreach (Working in Hoedspruit) (D) – Website / Facebook
• Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (Working in Hoedspruit) (W) – Website / Facebook
• HERD – Hoedspruit Elephant Rehabilitation and Development (Working in Hoedspruit) (W) – Facebook
• Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre (Working in Hoedspruit) (W) – Website / Facebook
• SPCA Letaba (Tzaneen) (All) – Facebook
• SPCA Louis Trichard (All) – Facebook
• SPCA Mokopane (All) – Facebook
• SPCA Polokwane (All) – Facebook
• The Charlie Project (Working in Limpopo) (C) – Website / Facebook
• Urban Feral Cats Polokwane (Working in Polokwane) (C) – Facebook
• Vervet Monkey Foundation (Working in Tzaneen) (W) – Website / Facebook

Sources: Various – Linked Above

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Communities across South Africa are done waiting and are taking matters into their own hands, cleaning up the streets and creating meaningful employment.

South Africa (12 January 2024) – Community action groups are changing the way South Africans see things like potholes, overgrown curbs, filthy beaches and waste management (to name but a few). These groups are taking matters into their own hands and uplifting communities in the process.

Whether they focus solely on cleaning beaches, restoring rivers, collecting litter, mowing lawns or maintaining roads, these organisations unite communities in efforts to make South Africa a better place.

Every year, since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists. This list is actually a new one that we have never shared before. It features all the organisations working to uplift and clean communities through active citizenship.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com, and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities and groups, and we will keep adding them!

South Africa

• Clean City SA – Website / Facebook
• Love Cities – Website / Facebook

Eastern Cape

• Re-Trade Project (Working in Gquberha) – Website / Facebook

Gauteng

• Better Bedfordview (Working in Bedfordview) – Website / Facebook
• Better Fourways (Working in Fourways) – Website
• Clean Projects (Working in Benoni) – Facebook
• Die Moot Projekt (Working in Pretoria) – Website / Facebook
• Friends of the Wilds, Joburg (Working in Johannesburg ) – Facebook
• The Friends of Joburg Cemeteries (Working in Braamfontein) – Website / Facebook
• Hennops River Revival (Working along the Hennops River) – Facebook

KwaZulu-Natal

• Love Howick NPC (Working in Howick) – Website / Facebook
• Love Notties (Working in the Midlands) – Facebook
• The Litter Boom Project (Working in Durban) – Website / Facebook
• Tidy Towns (Working from Shelly Beach to Margate) – Facebook

Mpumalanga

• Power8000 (Working in White River) – Facebook
• We Care 4 Nelspruit (Working in Mbombela) – Facebook

Western Cape

• Camps Bay Clean (Working in Camps Bay) – Facebook
• Friends of Zandvlei (Working in Muizenberg) – Facebook
• Helderberg Ocean Awareness Movement (Working in Helderberg) – Facebook
• Mosselbank River Conservation Team (Greenville) – Website / Facebook
• Project Noordhoeked (Working in Noordhoek) – Facebook
• Save A Fishie (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook

Sources: Various – Linked Above

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Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.

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You can say a lot about a society, by the way they treat their elderly and in South Africa, we hope to honour our golden oldies; showering them in love, kindness and friendship.

South Africa (11 January 2024) – The ageing population (globally) is living longer and longer, a part of life that many have not entirely planned for. Many of South Africa’s elderly find themselves struggling financially or from loneliness. We can support these golden oldies by lending a helping hand, listening to tales of their wild youths or just making sure they have something to keep them busy.

Every year, since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists. This list features all the organisations working to protect and support the elderly.

There are many ways to lend a helping hand, whether financially, donating food items to care homes, visiting with delicious baked goods, donating entertainment such as books, dvds, puzzles and board games, or even wool (so they can knit granny squares for charitable causes – see that list here). Making a fuss of our golden oldies means there is less sadness and loneliness in the world. So without further ado, let’s get helping!

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com, and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

South Africa

• Age in Action – Website 
• Nazareth Care – Website

Eastern Cape

• Coastal Kindness – Website / Facebook

Free State

• Free State Care in Action – Website / Facebook

Gauteng

• Gerald Fitzpatrick House and Nursing Home (Working in Berthams) – Website / Facebook
• Kindness Like Confetti JHB (Working in Linden) – Website / Facebook
• Soweto Home for the Aged (Working in Soweto) – Website / Facebook
• Wings of Inspiration Elderly Care Centre (Working in Randfontein) – Website / Facebook

KwaZulu-Natal

• Issy Geshen Home for the Aged (Working in Lamontville) – Website / Facebook
• The Association for the Aged (Working throughout KZN) – Website / Facebook
• The Robin Hood Foundation (Working in Westville) – Website / Facebook

Mpumalanga

• Hlayisekani Nursing Home (Working in Lilydale, Outer Sabi Sands) – Website / Facebook

Western Cape

• Hilltoppers Senior Club (Working in Westlake) – Facebook
• Ikamva Labantu (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook
• Neighbourhood Old Age Homes (NOAH), (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook
• Senior Santa Shoebox (Working in Cape Peninsula) – Facebook
• Wynberg Society for the Aged T/A Douglas Murray Home for the Aged (Working in Wynberg) – Website / Facebook.

Sources: Various (Linked Above) 

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Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.

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Knitters and crochet pros, if you are looking for ways to give back this year, these organisations need scarves, blankets, baby booties and more.

South Africa (09 January 2024) – The Good Things Guy team have been working on these charity lists since the start of the pandemic in 2020. They were created as tools to help people find help or to offer help to causes close to their hearts. Over the years, the demand for these lists has grown, and today, we are excited to start sharing our lists for 2024.

Our charity list was usually one long one, but we have found, with the help of insightful readers, that one list is too much to work through. In 2023, we started creating separate lists, dedicated to specific causes or skills.

This list features organisations that try and make winter more bearable for the many who face it under-resourced, support children who need comfort, and empower women fighting cancer all by knitting beanies, blankets, booties and beanies, soft toys and scarves. These organisations specifically welcome knitted and crochet items or facilitate the purchase of these items in support of other causes.

If we have missed an organisation or charity specialising in knitted goods, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, that this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

• 67 Blankets (National) – Facebook
• Beanies for Babies (Bloemfontein, FS) – Facebook
• Beanies for Beings (Northriding, GP) – Facebook
• Bless a Baby (Cape Town and Bloemfontein) – Website / Facebook
• Bowlers 4 Babies (Margate, KZN) – Facebook
• Crochet for Cancer (National) – Facebook
• The Grace Factory (GP and KZN) – Website / Facebook
• Kindness Like Confetti – Joseph Jersey Project (Linden, GP) – Website / Facebook
• Knit-a-Square (National) – Website / Facebook
• Knitted Knockers SA – Website / Facebook
• Kya Crafts – Project Purpose (Kya Sands, GP) – Website / Facebook
• Mama Themba (Helderberg/Stellenbosch, WC) – Website / Facebook
• Woman Zone – Knit and Natter Club (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook
• Zhara’s Little Lamb Project (National) – Facebook

Sources: Various (Linked Above) 

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Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.

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Society as a whole has an obligation to care for its elderly; if you are looking to lend a helping hand or a kind ear, these are the charities to support in 2023.

South Africa (25 January 2023) – The Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists since the start of the pandemic in 2020. They were created as tools to help people find help or offer it to causes close to their hearts. Over the years, the demand for these lists has grown, and today, we are excited to share our elder care list for 2023.

Our charity list was usually one long one, but we have found, with the help of insightful readers, that one list is too much to work through. This year we are splitting the list into various categories. This list features all the organisations working to protect and support the elderly.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com, and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

PS: We also have a helpful list for pensioners, detailing all the deals and discounts available to them in 2023. You can read that here.

South Africa

• Age in Action – Website 
• Nazareth Care – Website

Free State

• Free State Care in Action – Website / Facebook

Gauteng

• Kindness Like Confetti JHB (Working in Linden) – Website / Facebook
• Soweto Home for the Aged (Working in Soweto) – Website / Facebook
• Wings of Inspiration Elderly Care Centre (Working in Randfontein) – Website

KwaZulu-Natal

• Issy Geshen Home for the Aged (Working in Lamontville) – Website / Facebook
• The Association for the Aged (Working throughout KZN) – Website / Facebook
• The Robin Hood Foundation (Working in Westville) – Website / Facebook

Western Cape

• Ikamva Labantu (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook
• Neighbourhood Old Age Homes (NOAH), (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook
• Senior Santa Shoebox (Working in Cape Peninsula) – Facebook
• Wynberg Society for the Aged T/A Douglas Murray Home for the Aged (Working in Wynberg) – Website / Facebook.

Sources: Various – Linked Above

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Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.

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Mental health support is essential to leading a productive, healthy life; this is our charity list for 2023, and while it is still short, it is growing every year!

South Africa (13 January 2023) – The Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists since the start of the pandemic in 2020. They were created as tools to help people find help or offer it to causes close to their hearts. Over the years, the demand for these lists has grown, and today, we are excited to share our lists for 2023.

Our charity list was usually one long one, but we have found, with the help of insightful readers, that one list is too much to work through. This year we are splitting the list into various categories. This list features all the mental health organisations we have featured over the years and can vouch for.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com, and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

South Africa

• LifeLine South Africa – Website / Facebook
• SA Federation for Mental Health – Website / Facebook
• The Goldilocks and The Bear Foundation – Website / Facebook
• The South African Depression and Anxiety Group – Website / Facebook

Gauteng

• LifeLine Johannesburg – Website / Facebook
• LifeLine Pretoria – Website / Facebook
• LifeLine Vaal (Working in Evaton, Sebokeng and Sharpville) – Website / Facebook

KwaZulu-Natal

• Durban and Coastal Mental Health (Working in Durban) – Website / Facebook
• LifeLine Durban (Working in Durban) – Website / Facebook
• LifeLine Pietermaritzburg – Facebook

Limpopo

• LifeLine Limpopo – Facebook

Mpumalanga

• LifeLine Nelspruit – Facebook

Northern Cape

• LifeLine Northern Cape – Facebook

Western Cape

• Cape Mental Health (Working in Observatory) – Website / Facebook
• Community Keepers (Working in Stellenbosch) – Website / Facebook
• Counselling Hub (Working in Woodstock) – Website / Facebook
• Equinox Trust (Working in Durbanville and Tokai) – Website / Facebook
• HandsandFeet (Working in Strandfontein) – Website / Facebook
• Hope House (Working in Bergvliet, Tableview and Kuilsrivier as well as online) – Website / Facebook
• Inala Mental Health (Working in Woodstock) – Website / Facebook
• LifeLine Garden Riute – Facebook
• LifeLine Western Cape – Website / Facebook
• Persona Doll Training (Working in Western Cape) – Website / Facebook
• The Spring Foundation (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook

Sources: Various – Linked Above

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Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.

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Sports produce some of our country’s top achievers; these are the organisations and federations working to uplift through various sporting codes.

South Africa (12 January 2023) – The Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists since the start of the pandemic in 2020. They were created as tools to help people find help or offer it to causes close to their hearts. Over the years, the demand for these lists has grown, and today, we are excited to share our lists for 2023.

Our charity list was usually one long one, but we have found, with the help of insightful readers, that one list is too much to work through. This year we are splitting the list into various categories. This list features all the sports organisations we have featured over the years and can vouch for.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com, and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

Adaptive Sports

Athletics

• South African Transplant Sports Association – Website / Facebook

Ball Sports

• Blind Cricket South Africa – Facebook
• Blind Golf Association of South Africa – Facebook
• Deaf Rugby South Africa – Website / Facebook

Surfing and Swimming

• Adaptive Surfers of South Africa (Working in Durban) – Facebook
• Made for More (Working in Durban ) – Website / Facebook
• The Roxy Davis Foundation (Working in Muizenberg, Western Cape) – Website / Facebook

Ball Sports

Netball

• Netball South Africa – Website / Facebook
• Women in Sports Education Upliftment Programme (WISEUP – also focussing on girl’s hockey) – Facebook

Ball and Racquet Sports

Squash

• Egolisquash Youth Empowerment (Working in Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook 
• Squash South Africa – Website / Facebook

Tennis

• Tennis South Africa – Website / Facebook

Donating Sporting Goods

• Play it Forward Jozi (Working in Johannesburg) – Facebook

General

• JAG Foundation – Website / Facebook
• Laureus Sport for Good – Website
• Team South Africa – Website / Facebook
• The Sports Trust – Website / Facebook
• United Through Sport – Website 

Karate, Judo, Boxing and Wrestling

• Karate South Africa – Website
• Orlando West Karate Development via Soweto Karate Dojo (Working in Soweto) – Facebook

Road Sports – Cycling, Running and Racing

• Distance for Difference (Working in Western Cape) – Website / Facebook

School and After-School Programmes

• Safe Study (Working in Lorentzville, Johannesburg) – Facebook
• Sporting Chance Foundation (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook

Swimming and Water Sports

• The National Sea Rescue Institue (Swimming lessons) – Website / Facebook
• Swimming South Africa – Website / Facebook

Sources: Various (Linked Above)

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Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.

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There are so many people who are faced with life on the streets, in need of kindness and a helping hand; these are the organisations making sure they are seen!

South Africa (11 January 2023) – The Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists since the start of the pandemic in 2020. They were created as tools to help people find help or offer it to causes close to their hearts. Over the years, the demand for these lists has grown, and today, we are excited to share our lists for 2023.

Our charity list was usually one long one, but we have found, with the help of insightful readers, that one list is too much to work through. This year we are splitting the list into various categories. This fifth list features all the organisations working with people to put a roof over their heads.

There are several kinds of organisations, whether it be a service to support destitute people, a shelter to give a night’s stay or an organisation specialising in housing, we have added some indicators below, so you know what the organisation specialises in.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

(HM) – Homeless/Destitute Care, (HH) – Housing, (S) – Shelter.

South Africa

• Habitat for Humanity South Africa (Working across South Africa) (HH) – Website / Facebook
• National Shelter Movement of SA (S) – Website
• Sheltersuit South Africa (HM) – Facebook
• The Street Store (HM) – Website / Facebook
• Viva con Agua (HM) – Website / Facebook

Eastern Cape

• MES Shelter (Working in Gqeberha) (S) – Website / Facebook
• Vistarus Mission Station (Working in Gqeberha) (S) – Website / Facebook

Gauteng

• Doorway to Dignity (Working in Randburg) (HM) – Website / Facebook
• Fountain for the Thirsty (Working in Parktown North) (HM) – Website / Facebook
• Frida Hartley Women Shelter (Working in Yeoville) (S) – Website / Facebook
• MES Shelter in Hillbrow and Kempton Park. (S) – Website / Facebook
• PEN – Protecting the Homeless (Working in Tshwane) (HM) – Website
• Tower of Life Men’s Shelter (Working in Krugersdorp) (S) – Facebook 

KwaZulu-Natal

• Denis Hurley Centre (Working in Durban) (HM, S) – Website / Facebook
• Life Changers SA (Working in Pietermaritzburg) (HM) – Website / Facebook
• Payless Shelter (Working in Durban) (S) – Website / Facebook
• The Wellness Centre Trust (Working in Durban) (S) –  Website / Facebook

Western Cape

• Donations on Wheels (Working in Stellenbosch) (HM) – Website / Facebook
• Elim Night Shelter (Working in Elsies River) (S) – Website / Facebook
• Havens Night Shelter (Working in the Western Cape) (S) – Website 
• Ihata Shelter for Abused Women and Children (Working in Cape Town) (S) – Website / Facebook
• Khulisa Social Solutions (Working in Cape Town) (HM) – Website / Facebook
• Ons Plek Projects (Working in Western Cape) (HM, S) – Website
• Our Address Shelter (Working in Plettenberg Bay) (S) – Facebook
• MES Shelter (Working in Belville) (S) – Website / Facebook
• Pride Shelter (Working in Cape Town) (S) – Website / Facebook
• Somerset West Night Shelter (Working in Somerset West) (S) – Website / Facebook
• Souper Troopers (Working in Western Cape) (HM) – Website / Facebook
• The Hope Exchange (Working in Cape Town) (HM) – Website / Facebook
• U-Turn Homeless Ministries (Working in Kenilworth) (HM) – Website / Facebook

Sources: Various (Linked Above)

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People are at the heart of every community; these incredible organisations work to support communities through various projects and feeding schemes.

South Africa (10 January 2023) – The Good Things Guy team has been working on these charity lists since the start of the pandemic in 2020. They were created as tools to help people find help or offer it to causes close to their hearts. Over the years, the demand for these lists has grown and today, we are excited to share our lists for 2023.

Our charity list was usually one long one but we have found, with the help of insightful readers, that one list is too much to work through. This year we are splitting the list into various categories. This fourth list features all the organisations feeding and supporting South African communities.

If we have missed an organisation or charity, please email tyler@goodthingsguy.com and we will add it soonest; kindly supply the relevant links as well as which province they work in, the NPO/NGO/NPC registration details and a brief description of what the organisation does.

Please note, this is a working list, so keep sending through your charities, and we will keep adding them!

South Africa

• Breadline Africa – Website 
• Feed the Nation SA – Website / Facebook
• FoodForward SA – Website / Facebook
• Gift of the Givers – Website / Facebook
• Meals on Wheels – Website / Facebook
• Mould Empower Serve (MES) – Website / Facebook
• Operation Hunger – Website / Facebook
• Ubuntu Army – Website / Facebook

Eastern Cape

• Clean Slate (Working in East London) – Website / Facebook
• Healing Hands Foundation (Working in Gqeberha and Nelson Mandela Bay) – Facebook
• Kindness Like Confetti (Working in Port Elizabeth) –  Facebook (PE)
• Lia – Love In Action (Working in East London) – Facebook
• Love Story (Working in Port Elizabeth) – Website / Facebook
• SVDP St Vincent de Paul Society (Working in Port Elizabeth) – Facebook

Gauteng

• Acts of Love (Working in Midrand) – Website / Facebook
• Afrika AWAKE (Working in Gauteng) – Facebook
• Charity Begins With Me (Working in Johannesburg North) – Facebook
• Chefs with Compassion (Working in Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook
• Daily Bread Org (Working in Fourways) – Facebook
• Doorway to Dignity (Working in Randburg) – Website / Facebook
• Eden Angels (Working in Edenvale) – Facebook
• Fingertips of Africa (Working in Yeoville) – Website / Facebook
• Hanna Charity and Empowerment Foundation (Working in Pretoria) – Facebook
• Healing Waters Foundation (Working in Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook
• Hope SA (Working in Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook
• Ingelosi Foundation (Working in Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook
• Kindness Like Confetti (Working in Johannesburg and Pretoria) – Facebook (JHB) / Facebook (PTA)
• Ladles of Love (Working in the Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook
• Mahlasedi Relief Fun (Working in Irene) – Website / Facebook
• Megas in Motion (Working in Orange Farm) – Facebook
• Nosh Food Rescue NPC (Working in Johannesburg) – Facebook
• One Small Act of Kindness (Working in Randburg, Johannesburg) – Facebook
• People4Purpose (Working in Trevallyn Park, Johannesburg) – Facebook
• Rays of Hope (Working in Alexandra) – Website / Facebook
• Saeed Foundation (Working in Montclare) – Website / Facebook
• Siyabonga Africa (Working in Brakpan) – Facebook
• Sought Out Foundation (Working in Alexandra) – Facebook
• SVDP St Vincent de Paul Society (Working in Victory Park) – Facebook
• The Angel Network (Working throughout Johannesburg) – Website / Facebook.
• The Cradle of Hope (Working in Krugersdorp) – Website / Facebook
• The Wot-If? Trust (Working in Diepsloot) – Website / Facebook
• WAS Foundation (Working in Krugersdorp) – Facebook

KwaZulu-Natal

• 1000 Hills Community Helpers (Working in rural KwaZulu-Natal) – Website / Facebook
• Action in Isolation (Working in Midlands) – Website / Facebook
• African Spirit (Working in Howick) – Facebook 
• CityHope Disaster Relief (Working in Durban) Website / Facebook
• HEART NPO (Working in the Drakensberg) – Facebook
• I Learn to Live – Ngifundela Ukuphila (Working in Empangeni) – Facebook
• The Angel Network KZN (Working in Durban) – Facebook
• The Domino Foundation (Working in Durban) – Website / Facebook
• The Do More Foundation (Working in Northern KZN) – Website / Facebook
• The Robin Hood Foundation (Westville) – Website / Facebook
• Umgeni Community Empowerment Centre (Working in Durban) – Website / Facebook

Mpumalanga

• Mercy Air (Working in White River) – Website / Facebook

Western Cape

• Kindness SA (Working in Athlone) – Facebook
• RAM – Rescue Among Many (Working in Western Cape) – Facebook
• Table View Angels (Working in Table View) – Facebook
• The Angel Network WC (Working in Western Cape) – Facebook
• The Amy Foundation (Working in Gugulethu and Bonteheuwel) – Website / Facebook
• Valcare (Working in Western Cape) – Website / Facebook
• Abalimi Bezekhaya (Working in Khayelitsha) – Website / Facebook
• Angel Wings Cape Town (Working in Cape Town) – Facebook
• Ladles of Love (Working in the Cape Peninsula) – Website / Facebook
• Ndihluthi (Working in Western Cape) – Facebook
• Service Dining Rooms (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook
• The Hope Exchange (Working in Cape Town) – Website / Facebook

Sources: Various (Linked Above)

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Or watch an episode of Good Things TV below, a show created to offer South Africans balance in a world with what feels like constant bad news. We’re here to remind you that there are still so many good things happening in South Africa & we’ll leave you feeling a little more proudly South African.

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