Winston Fani (35), an unemployed blind gentleman, lives in Mfuleni, Cape Town, with his wonderful wife, Busi (43), who is also considered legally blind, and their faithful guide dog, Gladys. Winston was born with glaucoma, a progressive eye disease and from the age of...
Pictured above: Les-Leeco Koopman dreams of becoming a social worker. (Image Credit: Llewellyn Duim) Les-Leeco Koopman, an 18-year-old young man who lives on Delheim farm in the Cape Winelands, has attended the Pebbles Project After-School Club for 11 years. The...
Torsten Koehler (57), a testicular cancer survivor and author from Cape Town, founded non-profit organisation, Love Your Nuts in 2014, to create awareness around the ‘shy killer’, that affects 1 in 250 men. Pictured above: Torsten Koehler, founder of Love Your Nuts....
Talented Ethan Palagangwe needs support to continue his educational journey at the prestigious Drakensberg Boys Choir School in KZN.
To raise the R75,600 ($5000) needed to cover Nellie’s final year of school, Nickey has launched a crowdfunding campaign on BackaBuddy, and is pledging to complete 14 consecutive half marathons, a total distance of 295,4km, to get Nellie to the ‘finish line’ of her schooling career.
The Ikusasa Student Financial Aid Programme (ISFAP), is a South African non-profit company that assists students from less privileged backgrounds. The organisation, which is a positive public-private partnership, intersecting the government and the private sector,...
Support this BackaBuddy Campaign Nikhil Rathilall (13), a sharp and assured student from Muizenberg, Cape Town, has been selected by Crew For a Cause, a registered NPO and PBO focused on empowering disadvantaged students through education, for a once-in-a-lifetime...
The Cyril Ramaphosa Education Trust’s (CRET) alumni are giving back and paying it forward with an initiative of their own, supporting deserving students just like they were once supported.
According to Stats SA, Four in 10 marriages don’t last longer than 10 years. To help children cope with the emotional challenges and confusion that comes with divorce, Natalie Knox (46) a primary school teacher and a counselor from Cape Town, South Africa, now living...
From a young age, Ethan Palagangwe (10), a talented singer from Mitchells Plain, Cape Town has been drawn to music.