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From South African classrooms to Gaza’s borders, the message is clear: charity must always begin with generosity, but its destiny is to become justice.

Charity must be strategic. Enough of the bleeding hearts

Generosity without focus is sentiment. Strategic charity, urgent and directed, is transformation

Ladles of Love touches the lives of millions

Fill-A-Pot for R300, feed 100 people in need, and stand a chance to win a set of Le Creuset pots

Charities and nonprofits play a vital role in society

The spirit of philanthropy and community building is not only a virtue that serves a moral purpose, it is a function of collective human survival

FD1-FD5 volunteers at Jacaranda Montessori preschool packaging and loading donations into trucks to transport to KwaZulu-Natal. (Humairah Rangila)

Food drives from Jo’burg support KwaZulu-Natal’s citizens in need

Various charities and private groups are organising drives to provide necessities such as food, toiletries and medicine in areas heavily affected by looting

Aid group FoodForward SA will need R8-million as it resumes operations on Friday 16 July at its Durban food bank, which was ransacked and looted earlier this week, leaving 125 000 people without food.

FoodForward SA to resume operations on Friday after R8m worth of losses from looting and vandalism

The organisation serves 1 250 registered organisations around South Africa, including old age homes, homeless people shelters, centres for abused women, orphanages and healthcare…

Q&A Sessions: Establishing Gift of the Givers ‘was a spiritual calling’

A peek into the life of Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, 59: his name is synonymous with his humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers, which started operating from a spare room in his…

Why it’s crucial to collaborate

We are able to achieve meaningful social change better, and faster, if we act together

Cardboard signs made by rough sleepers in Barcelona inspired five fonts with more to come.

Barcelona’s homeless profit from handwritten fonts

A project to turn the handwritten signs of the city’s rough sleepers into fonts is raising funds for a foundation that cares for the homeless.

Charity goes beyond the money

Buzzwords do provide interesting insight into what a particular industry is thinking about.

Charity workers jailed for attempting to smuggle ‘orphans’ out of Chad

A French former fireman and a circus performer have been sentenced to two years in prison for attempting to smuggle 103 children out of Chad.

What the Good Card has to offer

You can earn passive income while donating to charity — but are the benefits good enough to justify the R289 monthly subscription fee?