Where on earth is Dzanani?

We are so far away from anything that its worth a post just to find us!

We're in between these two towns in Limpopo

If approaching Mamvuka from Louis Trichardt (which is known on Googlemaps as Makhado) you will drive over the Soutpansberg Mountains and through two tunnels. After the tunnels look out for two general dealer stores. They are the only two buildings you will see on this stretch of road. Immediately after passing the second store you should slow down and turn right. There is a dirt road but no sign post. Opposite the dirt road is the sign board in the photograph above. Drive along that dirt road for about 8km.

This is a normal sighting on the road towards Mamvuka

Dzanani banking details

If you would like to donate money to Dzanani please........

XYZ


Thank you for your support.

There is no running water in Mamvuka Village so everyone goes to the river to wash their clothes and collect bottles of water

Needs - our wish list (non-essential items)

We would love to upgrade our office, and install a real bookshelf instead of using carboard and bricks to balance our files. As you can see we keep good records of how we spend the money that is donated to us.

Current file storage in office

We have three computers, but two have broken and are beyond repair. A new computer would really help our administrators. The printer we use is on loan from Sam Maphari, one of the founders of Dzanani.

The only computer that works here

• ·          music system (to be used by the children on afternoons when they do cultural dancing and drama)
• ·         large deep freeze (to store food)
• ·         computer, printer, office table, chairs and bookshelf
• ··        netball hoop (so that the girls can play netball)
• ·         soccer balls (so that they boys can play soccer)
• ·         kit for soccer team and netball team
• ·         school uniform (all sizes): 
• grey, black or khakhi trousers
• white, khakhi or powder blue shirts
• black lace-up shoes
• black, grey or white socks

  

  This is the open yard where the children play soccer and netball

  
  

Youth drop-in centre: what we do

Youth drop-in centre

Front (L - R) Nkhumeleni Magadani, Tshiwela Mulaudzi. Back row (L - R): Miriam Mathada, Livhuwani Makhado, Elisa Rathando, Lizzie Sebola, Maria Mabirimisa, Thifulufheli Nzwobi

URGENT UPDATE:

We do not have any food so we cannot feed the children and so they do not come to the drop-in centre. This has been the situation since March. We hope to start feeding again in early June with the a four month supply of maize promised to us by one of the stores situated near our village on the N1.

Home-based care: a step by step guide to what we do

Home-based carer Sharon Makhari walks into the yard of one of her clients.

There's lots of work to do when she opens up this door

These blankets are the only mattress she has to lie on all day

Sharon cleans the room, talking to her client about her medicine and checks to see if she needs to go to the clinic

She uses a little wood fire to cook pap

 Sharon is just one of the team of home based carers who together care for 53 sick people in the village who have no family to look after them.

Top (L - R): Mukondeleli Mashavha, Virginia Mathari, Khathutshelo Matidza, Sharon Makhari, Angie Ratshikombo (and her son Matodzi Tshishonga, Cecelia Mudau (and her grandson Mufhumudzi Nkhatshiani). Bottom (L - R): Tshilidzi Mutsharini, Mpho Phalandwa, Susan Manena.

Needs - what you can donate

Needs

The kind of food we would like to give to the children who come to the Youth drop-in centre on a Monday and Tuesday. Often we don't have the money to buy this food. If we have pap, we will give the children pap. 

At Dzanani we rely on donations to feed the children the food they need.

Please take a look at our monthly food shopping list below and our wish list of other items we'll love to give to the people we serve.

Food

• ·         maize
• ·         rice
• ·         cooking oil
• ·         samp
• ·         raw peanuts
• ·         butter beans
• ·         green beans
• ·         sugar beans
• ·         chicken (gizzards, necks, hearts)
• ·         Mopani worms
• ·         pilchards / tinned fish
• ·         beef
• ·         potatoes
• ·         green pepper
• ·         onion
• ·         cabbage
• ·         spinach
• ·         tomatoes
• ·         beetroot
• ·         fruit
• ·         compral tablets
• ·         imana soup
• ·         minestrone soup
• ·         trotters jelly
• ·         milk
• ·         custard powder
• ·         juice
• ·         food parcels

Houses in the Mamvuka village

 Cleaning materials

• ·         jeyes fluid
• ·         bar soap
• ·         toilet paper
• ·         omo
• ·         surgical gloves
• ·         dishwash liquid

Contact details and NPO number

Registered as a Non-Profit Origansiation on July 27, 2005.
NPO number: 041-859


Contact: Heidi Smalle
+27 (0)79 506 3984
heidirc@gmail.com

Administration: Petunia Masala Nevhulamba
+27 (0)76 195 5540
nevhulamba.p@gmail.com

Community leader: Sam Tshamano Maphari
+27 (0)82 724 0216

The wonderful people who make a difference