Nappies and baby hampers done.Now its time to raise R8 million

Ndabeni Creatives donated these baby packets that will be sent to Hillbrow and  Spring Clinic
I have been wanting to do charity work for Ndabeni Creatives for a while now but always thought the company was still at its  infant stage  to take such task. Yes, Ndabeni Creatives has a long list of charity work that it want to do through the profits obtained from clients. Some of these are short term charity goals, others are long term goals such as building a school in Port St Johns and adopt K.K. Ncwane Primary School and become its financial sponsor forever. So of these charity projects, the  company will be assisting others  towards a certain goal of either an organisation, church or community.
Currently the  short term charity goal for  the company is  to buy 20 chess sets for a club in Motherwell, Port Elizabeth. The club is founded by a young men who now teach this  chess skill to youngsters from the previously disadvantaged background. Another project is to "adopt
 a child", through Nalusana, an organisation that identifies school going children from the township of Port Elizabeth whose parents cannot afford to buy them school uniforms and other basics for the year and the last  is to help raise R8million for Youth Alive Christian Youth Club in Dube Soweto.

Just the other day when I was looking at the company's finances and the work we want to do, I realized that it didn't make much money to do some of these projects now. Yet there was a great desire of wanting to do charity work now. Thanks to a former colleague, Qaanitah Hunter.  Together with a group of women are trying to  collect 200 baby packs for Hillbrow and Spring Clinic. In both these day care clinics, usually mothers give birth and have to leave after six hours. "They are often very poor and come without basics.The aim is to these bags to the duala/Midwife to hand out to the women as they give birth.We already have sponsored for the mothers with sanitary pads. We trying to make 200 baby packs," Mrs Hunter told me the other day.

As a person with strong Christian background, I understand the importance of charity work. I've read many articles about successful business that continued to give to charity and its leaders. This among  others include William Colgate the founder, the founder of Colgate-Polmalive company. My current church leader, Pst Andre Olivier from Rivers Church also encourages this type of giving. I also understand that if you truly love God the way you say you do, one needs to share his wealth with the less fortunate. In this way, I believe that I am not only recognizing the source of my income but also help God's kingdom outside church. 
I'm glad Mrs Hunter posted the message of need on her social media pages. In this way, I was able to also contribute a few bags for the babies. It was something that I can do now while I raise enough money for the companies charity projects. This was from the profits that Ndabeni Creatives has made from its inception. It is not much, but it is what I can afford now. I would really encourage you as a reader of this blog to also do the same. It does not need to be much, we all start somewhere even with giving. I hope this does not only touch you but encourage you do do something, no matter how small it is, it might be everything for the person whom you doing it for.







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