Donating to AMCARE creates jobs for others
“AMCARE teaches many people independence and the ability to sustain themselves through pro-activity."
AMCARE’s charity shop not only provides people with second-hand items at a very low price, it also empowers people to buy and re-sell items as a means of taking care of their families.
“We teach many people independence and the ability to sustain themselves through pro-activity,” says Nadine Mason, AMCARE fundraising relationship manager.
Pinkie Masango (53) has worked in the AMCARE charity shop since it opened in 2002. She is the shopkeeper and helps sort out all the items.
Donations received are used for the following purposes: Clothing individuals in need (victims of shack fires, vagrants, orphaned and vulnerable children and the poorest of the poor), AMCARE’s beneficiaries, such as the elderly, those who are part of the HIV Care and Relief Programme and Victim Empowerment and AMCARE’s economic empowerment programme that consist of clients buying the clothes and re-selling these.
Richard Nxumalo (46) has no source of income, except for the profit he makes from re-selling some of the charity shop’s second-hand clothing in front of the old Natalspruit Hospital. He has been doing this for a living since the charity shop’s birth. Richard supports his family and puts his children through school using only this income.
“I am happy to make money, because it is so hard to find a job,” says Richard.
This is his last resort to generating money, as it is for many other people.
To support people like Richard, and AMCARE, donations are always welcome. Any items that you don’t use anymore, that can be re-used or empower someone else, can be donated to AMCARE’s charity shop – clothes, books, toys, bed linen, homeware, shoes – anything!
Your second hand goods empower and impact the community at large. Help make a change and please donate.
Call Nadine on 079 500 8011 or email her at marketing@amcare.co.za for more information.
To arrange collection of donations on behalf of AMCARE, contact Desiré on 011 869 5856 or drop off your goods at AMCARE’s premises, corner Heidelberg and Ascot roads, New Market (look out for the sign indicating where donations should go).
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