featured campaigns
Read the inspiring stories behind our featured campaigns created by champions or charity organisations in your local area.
Humansdrop charity to offer sewing classes to empower local women in Kouga
The Sakhe Family Care Development Centre is a non-profit organisation based in Humansdorp, Eastern Cape, that aims to uplift families in the Kouga area through training courses for wives, husbands and children alike. Their goal is to prevent gender-based violence by...
SA woman keeps a decade-long promise by running 295km to support student’s final year
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.
Warrior Teenager (17) with an extremely rare cancer condition faces overwhelming medical bills
Reece Trumpelmann (17), a teenager from Bapsfontein, Gauteng, with the courage of a lion, was diagnosed with Gorlin Goltz Syndrome, an extremely rare cancer condition in 2016. After bumping his jaw while playing on a jumping castle, Reece was taken to hospital, and...
Period poverty leads to 528 days off school for disadvantaged young girls in the Hwange province.
Maluuk Explores Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Adrienne Short from South Africa, hopes to visit 20 secondary schools in the Hwange province, Zimbabwe, to provide 788 girls with a long-term sustainable solution to sanitaryware. It is estimated that...
Legally blind Cape Town Mom dreams of seeing her children again
Shireen Hermans, a 29-year-old mother from Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, has an eye disease called keratoconus, a condition which causes extremely blurred vision and light sensitivity. Life is exceptionally challenging for Shireen, who has less than 8% sight in only one...
Caught In The Crossfire | Shooting Leaves 29-year-old Bolt driver Paralysed for Life
Jenny Tshuma (29) from Soweto, Johannesburg, who works as a Bolt driver has become a victim of a brazen drive-by shooting which occurred in Rosettenville, Joburg South on 30 April 2022. Caught in the crossfire, the husband and father of 2 young children was shot in...
FEEL GOOD | 90-year old COVID survivor completes 900km walk to support families of healthcare workers.
Bill Wedderburn (90), a philanthropist and COVID-19 survivor from South Coast, Durban, completed his 900km by 90 years charity drive on 29 April 2022 in support of families of healthcare workers affected by the pandemic. Completing his final kilometre to the rousing...
FEEL GOOD | Adventure mom (41) to conquer Mount. Kilimanjaro in aid of Ostomy and Cancer Patients
Lerato Monyatsi (41) from Krugersdrop, Gauteng, is the founder of SkirtGirlHiker Foundation, a non-profit organisation that aims to restore dignity to Ostomy and Cancer Patients by conquering mountains and hiking with purpose. In 2020 while many lives had been shaken...
Durban Floods | Sisters pen emotional appeal after losing family home of 28 years, in an instant
Janelle (27) and Bianca Barnard (24) from uMdloti, Kwa-Zulu Natal, have launched a crowdfunding campaign on BackaBuddy to restore their family home of 28-years that was destroyed in Durban floods on 21 May 2022. In the aftermath of the floods, the sisters shared an...
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