Batman can save the world…

Batman can save the world…

… let’s help him do it!

… let’s help him do it!

Changing a lot with a little

With only small contributions, we can once again provide a hot meal for more than 1500 people every week.

Giving is more blessed than receiving

Every single euro goes where it is needed. We can make a difference and give as many people as possible regular meals and a roof over their heads.

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Khayelitsha is one of the largest townships in South Africa and is located west of Cape Town. Khayelitsha means New Home in Xhosa and is already an impertinence as a term. Built on the outskirts of the city to separate the blacks, the simplest huts were erected here. Most of the inhabitants had neither access to water nor electricity, nor was there any infrastructure such as local transport or participation in education.

After the end of the apartheid regime, things were supposed to get better and there were housing programmes, some of which still exist today. But firstly, it takes years before an application is actually approved, and secondly, unscrupulous traders often buy the houses immediately and then offer them again for horrendous rents. The situation is still catastrophic for very many residents.

Nobody can say exactly how many people live here, but what is certain is that many people are not well, many people – especially children – still have no prospects.

We don’t want to become a big aid organisation that could achieve great things with a lot of administration. We have found friends on the ground whom we help in a very concrete, small way. We support individuals in planning their own future. We pay the costs for a driving licence, we buy a sewing machine that can be the start of their own small business.

We finance the school fees or the school uniform, the notebooks, pens, which often exceed the family budget. Sometimes someone needs new shoes or the roof needs to be repaired. We can’t save the world, but we can make a big difference by helping in small ways.

Since February, we have been financing a soup kitchen. At the beginning, it was once a week and immediately about a hundred people came together, almost all of whom had lost their jobs in the times of Corona and who are grateful for the offer. In the meantime, we have been able to expand the offer to 3 days a week and we cook over 500 meals a day – also thanks to your donations.

We want to make the project sustainable. We don’t want to buy and deliver fish, but rather teach the local people how to fish. That’s why our guests pay a small fee. Children are always free and those who can’t afford it are of course still fed.

With this money, we have meanwhile been able to ensure that some of the helpers receive a small monthly amount, the soup kitchen is already partly self-financing and we are able to refinance smaller purchases – cooker, pots and so on.

Now we are planning to buy our own hut, because in South Africa the autumn starts and with it the rainy season, we can no longer distribute the food outside. Our next plan is to set up a kindergarten, a preschool and care for the elderly. There are still so many ideas. Please help us to realise them.

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