CharitySA is listing South African non-profit organisations and trying to increase awareness to the needs in this beautiful country. This website is dedicated to the men and women who are making a difference in the lives of others.
SAVF
SAVF is a family care organisation, focussing on children and youth, families, community development, aged and disabled care. We have several ECD centres, child and youth centres, shelters, social work offices, old age homes, housing schemes, services centres and programmes in different communities.
We also give support to upcoming organisations, where possible. SAVF has staff to execute services, but also uses volunteers for management committees, professional tasks and practical assistance in service rendering. Financial support enables SAVF to reach the needy to a greater extend.
Operates in: All of South Africa
Established in: October 1904
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 001-446
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Contact person: Marieta Kemp
Phone: 012 001 4007
Fax: 086 697 5318
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Website: www.savf.co.za
Physical address: 41 Hospital Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
Postal address: P O Box 40526, Arcadia, 0007
Childrens Medical Emergency SA
We believe in the basic human right of every child to enjoy love, caring, health, education and balance and we strive to achieve this through our efforts.
Mission and Vision Statement: To aid as many less privileged children as possible who have extreme or fatal medical conditions by making available to them free medical assistance or treatment through funds raised for this purpose. To work to ensure that no child’s life gets lost that could have been saved and reach this vision to the best of our ability. Our motto is ‘Touching hearts, touching lives, bringing change.’
Objectives:
- To provide community service and counselling to less privileged communities, specifically under or non-insured, homeless or abused children, facilitation of medical care and treatment for critical, fatal or life threatening medical conditions such as AIDS / HIV / STD, cancer, leukaemia, blindness, deafness and related diseases or conditions.
- To provide and actively seek medication, chronic and non-chronic, medical services, medical care and medical treatment to under- or non-insured children.
- To ensure and enforce every child’s right to lead a happy, healthy and balanced life.
- To provide medication, medical services, medical care, medical treatment, refuge, education and restoration to homeless and abused children.
- To provide, maintain and operate a care facility housing abused or homeless children including a hospice facility available to impoverished families who have critically-ill children.
- To provide a long-term medical aid to under- or non-insured children from less-privileged communities.
- To work in collaboration with other organisations which mainly provide health transformation, education and the right of a child to have a happy, healthy and balanced life and to establish a long term sustainable medical assistance forum for all communities, specifically under- or non-insured less privileged children.
- Provision of a means to education, food and clothing to less-privileged and homeless children.
- Provision of counselling and emotional support to critically-ill, homeless or abused children.
- Provision of financial assistance to impoverished families who have critically-ill children.
- Provision of funeral services to impoverished families who have critically-ill children.
- Ensure and enforce every child’s right to lead a happy, healthy and balanced life.
Operates in: Pretoria, Gauteng
Established in: October 2010
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 089-710
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Contact person: Craig Marucchi
Phone: 076 617 8211
Fax: 086 587 3418
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Website: www.childrensmedicalemergency.org
Physical address: 1226 Woodlands Drive, Queenswood, Pretoria
Postal address: 1226 Woodlands Drive, Queenswood, Pretoria
The People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (SA)
Many charities attribute their existence to inspired individuals with a burning ambition to bring about change. PDSA owes its foundation to the vision of one woman – Maria Elisabeth Dickin – and her determination to raise the status of animals, and their standard of their care, in society.
During the First World War, Maria Dickin CBE worked to improve the dreadful state of animal health in the Whitechapel area of London. She wanted to open a clinic where East Enders living in poverty could receive free treatment for their sick and injured animals. Maria Dickin opened her free ‘dispensary’ in a Whitechapel basement on Saturday 17th November 1917. It was an immediate success.
PDSA South Africa was established as a branch of the PDSA (UK) in 1937, and from humble beginnings began operating in a stable in District Six. It went on to become an independent organization in South Africa in 1988, but to this day retains links with the UK organization.
What the PDSA does and how we differ from other animal welfare service providers
The PDSA (SA) is a welfare veterinary health care service provider – much like a welfare hospital for people – with the differences being that our clients are animals whose owners cannot afford private veterinary healthcare and we do not receive any government subsidy.
The PDSA does not engage in prosecution cases or in the re-homing of animals (as other animal welfare organizations do), we rather focus our resources in the provision of the best welfare veterinary health care service possible for animals whose owners are from poorer communities. We strongly emphasize and insist on the sterilization of animals – to prevent unwanted litters and to improve the health of the adult animal – we sterilize animals on a daily basis in each of our hospitals and undertake spay campaigns in areas that are not serviced by welfare veterinary service organizations. The PDSA (SA)’s achievements include the fact that we treat at least 235 000 companion animals each year. Without our intervention these animals would not have received any veterinary treatment.
The Head Office with a central administration is situated in Bridgetown, Cape Town. We have three hospitals situated in George, Cape Town (Bridgetown) and in Soweto; we have three satellite clinics situated in Athlone, Mitchell’s Plain and Soweto. Our nine mobile units reach 75 poorer communities that would otherwise not have access to any other welfare veterinary healthcare service.
We are dependent on our own fundraising activities and do not receive any government funding. To raise sufficient funding to cover all our veterinary costs it is necessary for the PDSA to engage in various fundraising activities.
Operates in: Cape Town, Western Cape
Established in: 1937
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 003-288
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Contact person: Melanie Daniels
Phone: 021 638 5134
Fax: 021 638 4096
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Website: www.pdsa.org.za
Physical address: Tarentaal Road, Bridgetown, Athlone, Cape Town
Postal address: P O Box 405, Gatesville, 7766
