Facing food insecurity through vouchers and how a small network made a big difference during COVID -19 lockdown An unemployed woman receives an SMS on her monochrome-screen phone. It says, “This voucher from [Khayelitsha Christian Fellowship] offers you R400 to buy food from your local supermarket. Your voucher number is 123456789 – please enter it...
Author: Linda.Martindale
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Hope in Action
“As soon as the President announced that lock-down would be taking place in three days’ time, we asked ourselves, ‘What can we do quickly to lessen the food shortages that will be happening in the next three weeks?’ We sprung into action to organise food parcels for our most vulnerable church members and neighbours,” explains...
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New Hope in the Church
Walking into the old church community hall of St Peters Anglican Church in the heart of Mowbray on a Thursday evening, one will be welcomed by a community of people who gather to eat a wholesome hot meal together each week. Many live on the streets, some live in houses nearby and further afield. All...
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More than a Meal – Thank you for hope
Local Churches partner and care for their own community and others. “The relief fund is not just helping with food on the table and feeding my children. It has given me hope, just when I thought all was lost. It restored my faith that we still have good in the world. When it seemed like...
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Better Together
This is the first in a series of good news stories emerging from the Church responding to the COVID-19...in collaboration, in creativity, in community
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How to stay full of hope in 2019: Twelve ways to make 2019 good for you and your neighbour.
Linda Martindale asked some of her colleagues what helps them keep hope alive, and shares some of her own thoughts on how she has kept hope alive in her life, and when she had none, how others did it for her. ‘It’s a cruel, crazy beautiful world,” sang Johnny Clegg, a good summary from...
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Why the Living Wage Matters
Many people in South Africa are paid much less than a living wage and the negative impact of this is massive. Many years ago Dan Ndzuzo and I managed a small employment/job readiness project through our church (Khanyisa Community Church) in Gugulethu. We had the privilege of walking alongside people who were seeking work and...
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Restitution and the Good Samaritan
What do the story of the Good Samaritan and Restitution have to do with each other? René August explains how the story of the “Good Samaritan” is so richly applicable to how we think of restitution and, in far wider and deeper ways, how we think of ourselves as disciples of Jesus, whatever our background...
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The Living Wage matters
The ‘going rate’ for domestic work in South Africa is too low for people to survive, and the damage immeasurable. More than the Minimum – why the Living Wage matters. The ‘going rate’ for domestic work in South Africa is way too low for people to survive and thrive, and yet many privileged South Africans...