Learn to Live, which provides education for street children, will spend the money on an Outreach Worker programme. With its mission to help homeless boys reconstruct their shattered lives, The Homestead will invest in its family re-construction programmes whilst Ons Plek, the only shelter that takes in homeless girls, will use the money for its family reunification and skills development programmes.
Through the efforts of our StreetSmart restaurants we were able to double last year’s contribution this year, and our grand total raised to date is now over R597,400.00.
Currently 36 restaurants in and around Cape Town are embracing our vision to make a real difference to street children’s lives.
“The support from Cape Town’s member restaurants this year has been overwhelming and without their motivation for the project such initiatives we are embarking upon just simply would not happen,” said Margi Biggs, Chairman, StreetSmart, South Africa.
“Our goal is to grow member restaurants in the next year by encouraging many more of Cape Town’s fine eating establishments to become involved with the StreetSmart initiative to fund more much needed projects in the city and Western Cape in 2008,” she added.
