Our focus areas
The elderly
To Care supports organisations providing for:
- a network of homes for the aged supporting over 3000 pensioners on low-income
- subsidised housing for those unable to support themselves
- home nursing and frail care units for the mentally and physically ill
- delivery of meals and social programmes to improve the quality of life for the elderly.
Children in need
Thousands of children benefit from To Care’s facilitating of funds for childcare projects:
- the establishment of children’s homes for abused and abandoned children parenting and childcare programmes
- training and recruitment of foster parents foster care
- supervision and family reunification services the
- establishment of nursery care and pre-schools
Vulnerable communities
To Care supports a network of social services reaching far more than 10 000 people through
projects, such as:
- distribution of food and clothes
- empowering women through life skills and computer literacy programmes
- drug and alcohol rehabilitation
- HIV/AIDS counseling
- initiating job creation opportunities offering
- counseling services (divorce, trauma, single parenting)
- setting up “granny groups” to involve active senior citizens in childcare
Health care
To Care cooperates with HospiVision, which cares for patients in hospitals and home care
units.
Education
To Care is involved in education in the following ways:
- To Care supports university students in programmes which entail social engagement. This initiative aims to create awareness of the plight of the elderly and traumatised youth, amongst others.
- The foundation facilitates bursary schemes to students enrolled in courses at South African Universities, which focus on social engagement.
Social and legal services
To Care supports a wide range of projects which involve:
- promoting community development by integrating university students’ formal training with social work among the poor and distressed.
- sustaining the Africa Institute for Missiology’s projects, accredited by the University of Pretoria, which provide legal advisory services to people in need in the form of legal aid, social care and financial planning.
- assisting professional social services in administering 30 active projects, employing registered social and auxiliary workers operating in 16 offices within 4 provinces countrywide.