Volunteer sorting fresh fruit and vegetables that will be cooked at two foodkitchens we support, as well as used to supplement the diets of HIV/AIDS patients in local clinics. Volunteer Kristina (left) with thankful recipient at quadraplegic center.

Project Managers Anna and Anthony Mizrany

Capetown, South Africa
Helping Hand

Helping Hand has been operational in Capetown since 1999, and delivering food, clothing and educational materials to local soup kitchens for disadvantaged children, homes for the unwed and abused mothers, clinics for HIV/AIDs patients, as well as to orphanages throughout the greater Cape area.

As to the volume that Helping Hand may procure and distribute in a given year, envision over 40,000 kgs. of fresh food, 60,000 rolls and/or loaves of bread, 22,000 items of clothing, 14,000 pairs of shoes, 14,000 toys and baby items, and other needs for the poor, valued at over half a million dollars.

One such recipient agency has estimated that, based on what Helping Hand has delivered to them over the years, they have set out 2.5 million meals to clients from black townships via their soup kitchen. Additionally the agency distributes to the disadvantaged clothes, shoes, baby carriages and strollers, and other needs that Helping Hand provides. (Capetown townships are comprised mainly of those from the Xhosa tribe, which suffered greatly under apartheid.)

Helping Hand evolved from attempts to find practical ways of putting Christian principles to work. Helping Hand also provides Christian training via literature and educational materials, and host various outreach activities-personal evangelism, Bible study classes, and weekly distribution of inspirational messages.

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