What Can You Give To Improve Other Peoples Lives

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What Can You Give To Improve Other Peoples Lives?
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Presentation Outline

• What is Giving?
• What is Ubuntu?
• What are Charity Organizations?
• Association for the Physically Disabled
• SOS Childrens Villages
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Why Charity Work?
• Conclusion

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What is Giving?

• According to the Oxford Advanced Learners
  Dictionary, to give means to cause somebody to
  receive, hold, have or own something
• You can give anything you want to give to
  anybody.
• Be that as it may, some people need our giving
  more than others.

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What is Ubuntu?

• Ubuntu is a Zulu word meaning human
  heartedness.
• Ubuntu is a social and spiritual philosophy
  serving as a framework for African society.
• The essential meaning of Ubuntu can be conveyed
  using the Zulu maxim umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu
  meaning in essence, a person is a person through
  other persons.

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What are Charity Organizations?

• Charity organizations are organizations that
  render help (giving) to needy members of society.
  
• Our project focused on the following
  organizations
• Association for the Physically Disabled
• SOS Childrens Villages
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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Charity Organizations
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Association for the Physically Disabled

• Mission Practical rehabilitation and integration
  into the community of people with primarily
  physical disabilities.
• Give people with disabilities independence in
  their lives.

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SOS Childrens Villages

• Mission
• To build families for children in need.
• To help needy children shape their futures.
• To share in the development of their communities.

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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

• Mission
• To support efforts to improve crop production and
  access to markets for smallholder farmers.
• To facilitate access to financial services for
  the poor.
• To support public access to computing in
  libraries worldwide.

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Why Charity Work? Stats for Disabled People in SA
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Stats for Unemployment in SA
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Stats for Levels of Education in SA
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What do the Stats Tell Us?

• There is a great need for help in various sectors
  of society. For example
• There is a very high unemployment rate in SA
  which means that many people are in dire straits.
  Poverty is real!
• People with severe physical and mental
  disabilities need serious help.
• The high level of illiteracy requires a concerted
  attention from all members of society.
• These adverse conditions can lead to other
  societal problems such as crime, violence, moral
  degeneration and substance abuse.

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What Can You Do To Help?

• Local charity organizations are always looking
  for volunteers who can help them do the
  following
• Take care of the sick e.g. Hospice
• Deliver food parcels to the needy e.g. Lebone
  House NGO
• Reach out to street children and young
  delinquents e.g. NICRO
• You can also become a buddy in youth programmes
  such as Love-Life and Take 5.
• Additionally, you can donate money, food and
  clothes to some of the aid organizations.

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For Further Information

• Centre for Uplifting Rural Economies 051-448
  7735
• Befrienders SA 051-436 7141
• Hospice Naledi 051- 433 4462
• NICRO Crime Prevention 051- 447 6678
• Lovelife AIDS Awareness 0800 12 1900
• Lebone House 051- 526 1442

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Conclusion

• Ask not what your country can do for you, but
  what can you do for your country J.F. Kennedy