MURRAY & ROBERTS CHILD WELFARE BENEFICIARY SITE VISITS

The Murray & Roberts Child Welfare Fund committee hosts annual site visits to ensure that the funds donors generously give are used constructively and fully accounted for. The committee embarked on its annual beneficiary site visit on Thursday, 23 November 2017 and visited the following organisations:

• The Salvation Army Ethembeni Children’s Home – A home for up to 60 children aged from birth to three years, all of whom have suffered emotional, physical or medical abuse or have been abandoned. Many are HIV positive.
• Boys & Girls Town SA (Randfontein) – The organisation focuses on children 'at-risk' and families in difficulty by providing aid to youth, families and communities.
• Forever Friends – Through the Life Line Kit Project, the organisation aims to ease the removal of abused and abandoned babies and children from their homes by providing a Life Line Kit, which consists of clothes and shoes, toiletries, a towel and face cloth, a book, eats/sweets and a soft toy.
• Berea-Hillbrow Home of Hope – An autonomous, self-started initiative to provide real care for exploited, trafficked and abused children in the city of Johannesburg. A loving home where dignity is restored, the past is healed and the girls are given the tools to take control of their futures.
• Strathyre Girls Home – A home providing a secure, caring and loving environment within which the girls' past hurts are addressed, focusing on providing academic support, facilitating life skills, providing career orientation and work experience.

The Murray & Roberts Child Welfare Fund, via support from donors, makes an enormous difference. In the first six months of the new financial year (July to December 2017), the fund donated just under R240 000 to organisations supporting vulnerable and orphaned children. The target is to donate R500 000 by the end of the financial year in June 2018. The fund is able to meaningfully support about 20 beneficiaries each year.

ANNUAL CHILD WELFARE FUND GOLF DAY AT GLENDOWER GOLF COURSE

A reminder that the annual Murray & Roberts Child Welfare Fund golf day is booked for Friday, 18 May 2018 at the Glendower Country Club. It’s a great day out on the course and we hope to have a full field again. All communications related to player registrations, sponsorships and prizes should be directed to Lisa van der Linde at Murray & Roberts on 011 456 1336 and lisa.vanderlinde@murrob.com.