In recent times we tend to procrastinate over what to do tomorrow and when tomorrow comes we forgot what we intended to do. Just over 6 months ago we embarked on this journey to feed the impoverished and destitute and with humble beginnings we see today the growth achieved through the mercy of the Almighty. Through consistency and perseverance we are all able to achieve big things and the time to start is in the present moment.
Many of us want to make a change and help our communities, but don’t know where to start. We end up focusing on many things instead of a single purpose. We would like to welcome everyone to support our feeding initiatives as we can make a bigger difference together.
Today we fed 550 people from the Haven Shelters in Wynberg, Claremont and Lansdowne, the Saartjie Baartman Centre, Vision Orphanage, Tawakul Rehab Centre and the community of Parkwood. To date we have fed 9,075 mouths.
Since inception we operated from the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town and today we did our first drop off of ingredients at our new associated branch of Falaah Foundation in Belhar that will feed approximately 6,000 mouths a month. We welcome Abdulla Ganief who will be heading up the Belhar kitchen feeding the surrounding communities of Belhar, Valhalla Park and Blikkies Dorp.
Your support never goes unnoticed and we thank you all for your support. Below are a few pictures of today’s initiatives.
During these trying times we have all been impacted in some or other way by the pandemic. At the start of everything it seemed daunting and when many lives came to an end we were sad, but what matters most is what we do in between.
Today through the grace of the Almighty we were able to cook for three organisations/communities, Beitul Aman old age home in Wynberg, Vrygrond Community and the Khayelitsha community. Just over six months ago we started with cooking a 100 litre pot feeding on average 300 mouths and have grown to date to six pots 420 litres in total feeding approximately 1,000 mouths.
As Martin Luther King once said, “We must accept finite disappointments, but never lose infinite hope.”
Today we celebrate Falaah Foundation’s story of hope and thank firstly the Almighty for allowing us to feed humanity, our sponsors (each and everyone) for your contributions and everyone that comes out to assist with the cooking and distribution. We are only able to achieve what we did together and we are extremely grateful. Below is a few pics of today’s initiative.
We were contacted by an esteemed businessman in South Africa, Mr Khalid Abdulla. With a good intention to raise funds to feed the impoverished and the destitute. Little did we know that we would be able to raise much needed funds to assist our communities. With a target set of initially R50,000 for three charities, us included, it quickly increased to R100,000 based on the overwhelming support and commitments to support our feeding initiatives.
We would like to congratulate Mr Khalid Abdulla for completing his first cycle tour ( 109km) and we are grateful to him for persevering every tough kilometre in order to raise much needed funds to feed the impoverished and the destitute. To everyone that has contributed and confirmed donations, your further contributions are appreciated. Up to Friday, 8 October 2021 our organisation has raised R10,000 which will feed approximately 2,000 people.
This initiative will remain open for the rest of the week. Thanks for your support. Donations can either be made via our website portal or alternatively, EFT’s are welcome, banking details included below:
We decided to do something different instead of cooking pots of food to feed the impoverished and the destitute. As it was heritage day and as we know it, “Braai Day” we decided to bring the gees to the people by making boerewors rolls to allow those in need to also celebrate our heritage as South Africans.
Initially we set out to make 100 boerewors rolls but with the inclusivity model by allowing family and friends to collect ingredients and make boerewors rolls in the comfort of their own homes, we managed to make 400 boerewors rolls. The distribution points were Habibia Girls Home in Rylands, Saartjie Baartman Centre for Abused Women and Children, Parkwood Community and even supporting another organisation Fusion Inyemeko.
We thank the Almighty for granting us the strength, the blessing of family and friends, our sponsors and all those that assisted to make this a successful drive. To date we have fed 7,535 mouths for the past 6 months.
We wish everyone a blessed heritage day and may the Falaah Foundation be a legacy and a heritage of supporting the impoverished and destitute for many years.
In addition to the Belhar initiative, we were requested to assist Valhalla Park from the funds received from Muslims United. Today we embarked on a feeding drive in Valhalla Park. Cape Town’s Valhalla Park is a “coloured” community where many young people growing up see gangs as the only option and sports as a way out of gangsterism. Violence is increasing between people within this township as many people feel they are the most disadvantaged within society.
We reached out to Abdulla from the Belhar community with Nurul Huda Masjid being the centre point for assisting the community for the past 40 years. We were humbled by his perseverance and dedication in feeding the impoverished and destitute alongside two of his colleagues.
We managed to feed approximately 400 mouths within 8th lane in Valahalla Park. Additionally, we wanted to look after our elderly by providing 75 of our elders lunch at Beitul Aman in Wynberg. Thw feeding today took our total to 7,135 mouths fed to date since May 2021. We thanks the Almighty for granting us the strength and the sponsors for all your donations and support.
It has been a month last since we posted, although providing regular feedback to stakeholders via WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. We have all been impacted by the pandemic in one way or another, but we bear patience with what has occurred and we show gratitude each day for many other bounties that the Almighty have bestowed upon us.
After a month of many activities, exceeding our targeted sanitary drive of 1,000 sanitary pads and two feeding initiatives feeding destitute and impoverished of Beitul Aman Old Age Home, Saartjie Baartman, Tawakul Rehab Centre, Parkwood Community, Haven Night Shelters and most recently the community in Belhar yesterday on 10 Muharram, we have manage to feed in the past thirty days another 1,150 mouths, taking our total mouths fed to date to 6,660. We thank the Almighty for granting us the strength, as well as the sponsors and all those that support our initiatives, we are merely instruments of the Almighty to severe humanity.
Belhar feeding initiative (10 Muharram)
With the assistance of Muslims United contributing approximately R5000 we embarked on a feeding initiative in Belhar. Muharram is the start of the Islamic new year and we partnered with Muslims United with the intention of feeding the communities of Belhar and Valhalla Park. We started with Belhar yesterday by cooking 20kg rice and 20kg beans which fed in excess of 300 people of the community.
Abdulla from the community was our distribution channel within this community. We thank Abdulla for the opportunity and we ask the Almighty that him and his team be given the strength to feed the communities of Belhar, Delft, Valhalla Park and Blikkies Dorp.
Mandela Day Sanitary Drive
Mandela Day coincided with the holy days of pilgrimage. We initially targeted 1,000 sanitary packs of pads, however with your help we managed to exceed our target and managed to distribute 1,580 sanitary packs of pads. We were therefore able to provide comfort to 530 women for 3 months.
We distributed to the Haven Night Shelters (Wynberg and Lansdowne), Saartjie Baartman Centre, Habibia Girls Home, St George’s Girls Home, Vision Orphanage and St Anne’s Home. Thanks to all representatives of these organisations allowing us to feed and provide comfort to women.
Beitul Aman, Tawakkul Rehab Centre and Parkwood
We embarked on feeding the Old Age, Rehab Centre and the community in Parkwood. We managed to feed 350 mouths.
Today marks a significant milestone for the foundation, feeding 550 people, the elderly at Beitul Aman and the Vrygrond community. Just over three and a half months since starting the organisation we have managed to feed 5,510 people to date.
We would like to take the opportunity to Thank the Almighty for giving us the strength, all those that has contributed their time to support, the sponsors and our communities for gifting us with the opportunity to support them.
Beit-ul-Aman Old Age Home is a facility that cares for the impoverished aged and the frail. The facility is located in Mars Road, Wynberg since its establishment in 1967.
At Beit-ul-Aman, we appreciate the contribution that these elderly individuals made to our communities while they were young. The organisation strives to ensure that the twilight stages of their lives are lived with pride, comfort and dignity. The institution can accommodate up to 72 people, making a difference to 72 individuals by providing personal care, compassion and support.
A wise man once said, respect your elders, learn from those that has walked the earth before you and respect them because someday we will too grow old. We would like to thank Tasneem for the hardwork and for her assistance in this feeding initiative.
Capricorn, known by some residents as Vrygrond, is reputedly the oldest informal settlement in the Western Cape. Vrygrond simply means “Free Ground”, and comes from the legend that the land was given to the community by a wealthy Italian aristocrat who owned the area. Capricorn was originally created by Trek fishermen who erected informal houses near the beach to assist their work; the settlement is located near Muizenberg on the False Bay coast about 20 kilometres from Central Cape Town. Currently, the population is roughly half coloured, who mostly speak Afrikaans and English, and half black, who speak Xhosa. There has never been an accurate census, but the local Council assessed that there are around 8000 people, though it is likely that the figure is much higher.
The people of Capricorn have certainly had a difficult recent history; the land on which the settlement is built belonged to the Council, and so residents had no official right to live there. Under the apartheid government they were ejected, with many being forcibly sent back to other parts of South Africa. Others left because of the continual harassment, but a core managed to remain throughout this time. Shacks demolished by the authorities during the day were surreptitiously re-built at night, and the community managed to increase in number as the old governments gradually stopped implementing its policies. The community also had to deal with the effects of poverty, which is an issue still facing them today. We would like to thank Mymoena and Kyle for the opportunity to support this community.
Just over two months ago we started Falaah Foundation with the aim of feeding 30,000 mouths. Thank you to the Almighty, the sponsors and all those that continue support our feeding initiatives, we are pleased to announce that we managed to feed 4,690 mouths to date.
To date we managed to feed 100 families with food for at least 2 to 3 days, fed approximately 2,200 people through our five food initiatives and managed to put a smile on the faces of 100 orphans. The mouths fed averages between R8 which is an indication that we as a foundation strive to serve the impoverished and destitute as best as we can. We would like to take the opportunity thank each and everyone of you for your support with these initiatives, without you this would not be possible.
Today we managed to feed another 190 people in the Vrygrond community. Mymoena was very accommodating and she and her family makes many sacrifices for this community. Below is a few pictures of our the feeding in Vrygrond.
Although we are faced with challenging times as the numbers start increasing as a result of the third wave, we aim to continue feeding the impoverished on a regular basis.
This weekend we were blessed to be able to network with the Bamphumele Home in Khayalitsha. We thank the Almighty for granting us the health and strength to feed this community and the sponsors who without your assistance we could not have assisted this community.
We managed to cook 25kg dhal and 15kg rice which was able to feed 450 people in the community of which 150 was orphans and 300 to the rest of the Bamphumelela Community.
We were able to assist Mama Rose who has sacrificed many hours to assist the Bamphumelela community in Khayalitsha.
The vision of Baphumelele is to provide a temporary shelter for vulnerable/orphaned children and young adults with chronic diseases and HIV/Aids, and to provide skills development for the unemployed, early childhood care, alleviation of poverty, and healthcare information to the community in Khayelitsha and surroundings, so that the lives of everyone they touch can become more productive and accepted individuals who make a difference within society.
Thanks to the sponsors, we were able to assist these kids in the community.
Firstly, we would like to thank the Almighty for granting us the strength to continue feeding the impoverished and destitute. This time we decided to do something different to create excitement to kids the day of Eid.
After handing out 100 parcels to families for Eid, we decided to follow this up with 100 Eid party packs for the little ones. We would like to thank the sponsors who made this possible, May the Almighty reward you abundantly and increase your wealth in order that you can continue with your generosity, we are humbled.
Our distribution points yesterday were Darul Naim Orphanage, Habibia Children’s Home, Vision Orphanage and Parkwood. Due to Covid-19 protocols we were not able to hand the party packs to the little ones but we were introduced to some of the children and we were so blessed to be in their company and we thank the Almighty for granting us the opportunity.
Darun Naim Orphanage was established with the vision of offering a family home environment for the most vulnerable in our Community. In 2012 the trust embarked on a fundraising programme to acquire its own premises that would be suitable for running a foster home model.
The first premises in Wynberg was eventually purchased in 2013 and has been set up as a “normal” home. When you visit our home you will not see any orphanage boards on display, you will not see any branding on our vehicles. You will find a normal home where our children call the house parents “Mommy” and “Daddy”.
Due to the huge demand we have opened a second home in 2019 which we are currently renting. Each home runs as a family unit with their own house parents.
A normal home where they can for the first time in their young lives experience what ‘normal’ feels like. Their vision is to provide a nurturing and caring family environment. Something that we all want for our own children.
The well known Habibia Children’s Home caters for 25 young orphan girls who are in desperate need of love. To ensure that this happens and make sure that the home sustains itself a manner that is economical viable, the organising committee has its hands full. According to Gairoonisa James, a child and youth care worker at the home, they presently have 20 girls registered, 16 of whom are on the premises, while the others are either with sponsored families for one day of the week or have extra mural activities. May the Almighty grant Gairoonisa the ability to continue the great work.
Vision Child & Youth Care Centre was founded by a Community Worker Sadique Jacobs and his wife Suraya Jacobs, a care worker with vast experience in working with children and youth.
Both Sadique and Suraya remain actively involved in the Home, Sadique as Chief Operating Centre Manager and Suraya as Head of House Executive. Today Sadique and Suraya are assisted by a staff of 7, comprising of care givers, a social worker, administrative staff, domestic workers, assistants and sales reps.
They are a non-profit organization dedicated to the aid of children who have been orphaned, abused, abandoned or left destitute. Their aim is to provide these children with a safe and stable environment, along with giving them the tools they need to succeed. Vision Child and Youth Care Centre provides for the destitute, abused, neglected and abandoned children as well as orphans, and was established in 1991.
The premises can currently accommodate 50 residents, at present they range from age 1 to 23 years old, of whom are either at Crèche, in Grade R, at Primary school, at High school, also at Hifz school (Quran memorization), or at College and University as well as apprenticeship.
The ultimate aim is to heal the hurts and abuse of their past and establish their self-confidence in order to prepare them for re-entry into the community.
The team would like to take the opportunity once again to thank you from the bottom of our heart for making this possible.
For those celebrating Eid today or tomorrow we at the Falaah Foundation NPC would like to wish you a joyous Eid Mubarak
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