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Introduction

Background
Forgood is a social network with purpose, connecting people based on their interests and their
location to opportunities to take action for good in their communities. Forgood was launched in
June 2011 as the back-end of a national campaign for Brand South Africa (IMC) called Play Your
Part. People were directed to forgood to find ways to play their part in building a better South
Africa. Forgood was also the back-end for Mandela Day 2011. The Mandela Day website directed
people to forgood to find specific Mandela Day activities.

In June 2011, Pick n Pay committed to sponsoring ten R500 gift vouchers per month for a period of
3 months for the forgood rewards programme. Over this period, forgood has increased their
membership and many great stories of people connecting for the good of SA have unfolded. To
date, forgood has:
    • Groups / Organisations: 530
    • Members: 2180

Still to come
In the next few months, forgood will be launching:
    • The forgood marketplace where people can view and contribute to specific needs or they
        can offer something to other members of forgood
    • The forgood knowledge hub where people can access practical information on things they
        can do to make a difference in their communities.
    • The forgood brand so that people begin to recognizing forgood as a platform for initiating
        social change.

Feedback
Presented in this document are the groups that have been awarded R500 gift vouchers over the
last 3 months to go towards to work they are doing in their respective communities. Another 10
vouchers are still available to use for the coming month.

Forgood incentivises people’s participation on the forgood social networking site with rewards
that matter. The more a member participates, the more points they get. Once they reach a certain
level of points, they get to claim their reward. They get to “give” a Pick n Pay voucher to a group or
cause on forgood and they “get” a token reward for themselves.

The following groups received Pick n Pay vouchers through this process.

Harvest Aid
Group Contact
Saretha Sandham

Group Description
Harvest Aid is a Christian Relief Agency facilitating the delivery of aid to orphans and the needy in
Africa. Harvest Aid provides food, help and other needed supplies to those in desperate need.
Harvest Aid is involved with school feeding projects, orphanages that place children into foster

care and then provide food, school fees, books and clothing for these children. These foster
families also benefits from the food aid. Currently we have several projects across Southern Africa.

How the Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher would be used to buy food for the families in Harvest Aid’s care. Food and clothing is
always their first priority but we also want to add value to the lives of the children that we care
for.

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Hotel Hope Ministries
Group Contact
Oliver Quambusch

Group Description
Hotel Hope Ministries create small foster family homes to care for the children in a warm and
caring environment where they feel loved. Hotel Hope has a holistic approach to orphaned and
abandoned children, and so try to prevent mothers abandoning their children by providing
practical support (food, finding a job, placement at a shelter etc.) and counselling to the mothers.
They also focus on social enterprise, where they aim to raise money to fund their organisation
through small businesses that create jobs, teach skills and uplift the community.

How the Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher will be used for fresh fruit and vegetables, washing powder, long life milk and bread
for the children at Hotel Hope.

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Olievenhoutbosch Christian School
Group Contact
Ria Wessels

Group Description
A small group from a local church started this school with the purpose to provide standard
education and teaching life skills to children grade 0 – 3 in Olievenhoutbosch. Olievenhoutbosch is
an informal settlement and there are currently no other facilities in the area providing an
education for the local children. The remedial class is the only facility in the vicinity, to cater for
children with special needs. The school realizes that the development of art, sport and recreation
is very important. Parents are equipped with parental skills and encouraged to make use of
opportunities to increase their income or to learn new skills in order to provide for their families.
The school offers one meal daily to the children and they furnish 20 families with monthly
groceries.

How the Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher will be used for food items for the learner’s sandwiches and lunches during break and
after school. We will also buy some food items (e.g. mieliepap, rice, pasta) for the families in our
school who are in desperate need for food. Whatever is left, we will use to buy stationery for the
learners e.g. pencils, books, erasers, sharpeners, glue.

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People Against Substance Abuse
Group Contact
Freddie Trout

Group Description
People Against Substance Abuse is a Non Profit Organisation that visits schools across SA to
educate young people, children and adults about the dangers and effects of drug and alcohol
abuse. The organization is run by Frederick Trout, Sophie Trout, Wayne Windvoel and Ryan
Simons. They visit schools on a daily basis to talk to students about issues such as drug and alcohol
addiction, HIV/Aids and teenage pregnancy. The team teaches young people how to make quality
decisions that will increase the quality of their lives in the future as well as the present. Through
their efforts, they have seen thousands of lives transformed.

How the Pick n Pay voucher will be used
They vouchers will be used to buy paper to have some much needed material for their next large
youth event in August in Citrusdal in association with the Citrusdal SAPS regarding drug abuse
awareness.

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Thunzi Primary School
Group Contact
Mdu Ndlovu

Group Description
Thunzi Primary is a small rural school located about 40 kilometers from the town of Underberg.
This small school needs electricity, outdoor playing equipment, a grass-cutter, science kits and
they also desperately need to repair the broken floors and windows so that the kids will be
protected against the bitter cold during winter. The principal, Mdu Ndlovu and his staff are
desperately keen to make this school a decent place for teaching and learning.

How Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher will be used for a Christmas party for the children before school ends in December.

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Rose-Act Saturday School
Group Contact
Jennifer Charlton

Group Description
Rose-Act is a Saturday school in Alex and gets its name from Rosebank in Action. Approximately
450 young people from Grade 5 to matric attend the school and receive tuition in subjects in
which they are struggling at school. The tuition is provided by volunteers and many tutors are ex-
Rose Act pupils who feel blessed for having had the chance to attend the school and want to give
back to their community. Pupils are fed each Saturday. There are a number of outings planned
during the year to support the learning and a number of camps take place as well.

How Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher will be used to buy food for the 20th Anniversary Women's Day celebration at Rose-
Act Saturday School.

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Barnswallows Baby Shelter
Group Contact
René Testa

Group Description
René started Barnswallows Home for Abandoned Babies out of a desire and absolute passion for
children and infants and every aspect relating to their development and protection. After
becoming involved at a Care Centre in Claremont, Johannesburg and witnessing the extreme need
of the poor, something was awakened inside of René. And so Barnswallows was opened in
November 2009 in Weltevreden Park, Roodepoort. The Barnswallows team of volunteer experts -
toxicologist, homeopath, massage therapist, chiropractor, medical doctor, socio-specialist and
micro-biologist work in unity, together with volunteers in the community to achieve the most
amazing results with Foetal Alcohol Synfrome, HIV+, premature, cerebral palsied and overall
developmentally delayed babies of the community.

How the Pick n Pay voucher was used
Barnswallows was nominated twice by forgood members to receive two Pick n Pay vouchers.
Barnswallows used the Pick n Pay vouchers to buy food items and consumables at PnP
Clearwater. Two days before they received the vouchers, they were overwhelmed with 3 extra
kids who were very deprived and neglected and had to be fed all around the clock. Rene said “this
helped us so much – we could not have done without it! Just at the right time!”

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Boost Africa Foundation
Group Contact
Yonelani Msindo

Group Description
Boost Africa Foundation assists children together with their families living in extreme poverty to
stay in school. This initiative aims to establish leadership and role models in these communities
through education.

The drop out of children from school at a young age has a huge impact on the community,
especially on crime levels. Children not attending school easily become involved in gangs,
prostitution and drugs. Boost Africa Foundation believes that education fights crime and poverty
and is the key to effective long term social development.

They provide children with the basic requirements necessary to attend school and also aim to
establish a sustainable learning centre that provides quality educational resources to improve the
numeracy, literacy and skills development of the youth in the community.

How the Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher will be used to buy toiletries for Boost’s ‘Keep a Child in School’ families.

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The Justice Jar
Group Contact
Michael Du Toit

Group Description
The Justice Jar aims to raise money by collecting small change in jars known as 'The Justice Jar'.
The collected money is used to do things that will bring about justice in the group’s local
community. The mission of the group is to help the poor and oppressed and to show love, mercy
and compassion to those in need. With the money collected so far, Michael has been able to buy
scarves, mealie meal and soup which have been handed out to beggars in Kempton Park. They
have also been able to buy food for local children's homes as well as stationery and school
uniforms for 55 primary and high school children in the area.

How the Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher will be used for food items to give to people living on the street as part of Justice Jar’s
ongoing outreach.

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Toys for Africa
Group Contact
Danie Van Loggerenberg

Group Description
The mission of Toys for Africa is to make sure every single child in South Africa has their own toys.
Their objective is to give toys to 13 million kids in South Africa by the end of 2011, to manufacture
toys and to spend a percentage of our profits to build community centres. People can either buy
toys for themselves or for their organization from Toys for Africa, or they can give Toys for Africa
their ‘wish list’ and they will try their best to find sponsors for the toys. Danie is willing to help, not
only with providing toys for free, but also to help with other needs or wishes of organizations that
desperately need assistance.

How the Pick n Pay voucher will be used
The voucher will be used to buy pens, toys or Super M’s for school children.

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And some more feedback from groups after they spent
their vouchers:

From Olievenhoutbosch Christian School
Thank you so much for choosing Olievenhoutbosch Christian School to give the R500 Pick&Pay gift
voucher to. It went a long way in blessing the learners of the school and the community. Thank
you so much for your thoughtfulness and generosity of spirit.

The voucher was spent at Pick & Pay, Lifestyle Centre, Centurion, as follows:
   1. Stationery for the teachers e.g. red pens.

   2. Food for the children (we provide sandwiches during break and lunch after school for the
      children who come to school without food). Thank you for the jam-spreads we were able
      to buy!

3. We were able to provide some food for families without any income (e.g. mielie meal, salt,
      stamp mealies).

   4. We bought some story books for our library!

From Barnswallows Baby Shelter
We used the voucher to buy food items and consumables at PnP Clearwater. 2 Days before we
received the vouchers, we were overwhelmed with 3 extra kids who were very deprived and
neglected and had to be fed all around the clock – this helped us so much – we could not have
done without it! Just at the right time!

A great big thank you to you and your team – we appreciate the work you are doing, especially for
start-up NPOs like ourselves. We do not get any government funding and have to rely on the
public for donations like these.