Vivian and the Lions Club of Tableview

What will help ... this is simple ... Dollars.

Not collecting things ... that does not really help ... not because it is not a good idea but because of the enormus distance that must be over come ... it is the trying to send them ... that doesn't work. I did that and found out the hard way the cost of transporting things halfway around the world. three times the cost of buying whatever it is there in ZA.

South Africa ... particularily around Cape Town ... has everything we need ... it is the dollars to get at it, that is what we lack ... Our dollars purchasing power can actually deliver more bang for the buck there then it does here ...

We have administrators who are honourable ... the Lions Club of Tableview ... There is no concern that 100 percent of the dollars that are transferred to ZA is used for the particular projects we are funding. This is the most important lesson I have learned in attempting to do anything in ZA ...





















So an Outline for a plan

If we had 50 sponsors at 10 dollars a month... that is 500 dollars/mouth ... or approximately 3500 rand a month ... a rand there will buy approximately the same as a dollar here. if we transferred the dollars bi monthly the cost of transfer is reduced by over half ...

As a foreinstance: A Doctor of Medicine in the commmunity here in Victoria donated a single 300 dollar contribute ... that bought groceries for 110 people for a nearly a month (see photo) ... healthy food ... to build strong bodies ... have a look ... a friend and a doctor locally made a single donation of three hundred dollars and this is what it bought ...



Here’s how you can help:

$10.00 a month can simply make a difference. why because when taken with other donations of 10 dollars it is cumulative ... then

$100.00 can buy about a weeks worth of food or

$500.00 can purchase approximately a months supply or

$1000.00 can re stock the school with basic supplies for a month or more or

$5000.00 can help hire T/A’s or fund a school psychologist to see the children who suffer post trauma stress more frequently ... or

$10,000.00 allows the school, and in particular, the teachers to focus on the business of teaching, and focus less on the basic’s of survival--things like finding chalk or pencils or paper for their kids to use ... text books ...


These children and their parents have nothing ... and when I say nothing I meaning nothing ... absolutely nothing ... the kids drink water at night to off set hunger pangs ... In one family that I met the children eat in rotation ... the boys on Mondays and Fridays and the Girls on Wed and maybe Saturday or Sunday if there is any food ...