For the animals, or the children - you choose

Do you love animals and want to show your support? Or perhaps education or disabilities is dear to your heart? Perhaps you are a part-time social worker and try to do good as much as you can?

Then I have good news for you, you can show where your heart lies by wearing it on your shoe.

A new initiative called Tekkie Tax allows you to choose the charity you want to support.

For the first time ever, South Africa will have an annual fundraising event where you can choose what welfare sector will benefit from your donation:

~    Animals  ~

~  Basic Community Welfare  ~

~   Children  ~

~    Disability ~

~    Education  ~

Tekkie Tax will be an annual fundraising campaign for a large mix of carefully selected welfare organisations, schools and institutions in South Africa.  

 I received a press release from the organisers.

The first Tekkie Tax campaign will take place on 31 May 2013.   During the month of April & May, members of the public will be asked to get a Tekkie Tax sticker for a R10 donation from any of the participating outlets or participating welfare organisations.

There will be 5 different kinds of stickers, each representing a beneficiary sector. People will be able to choose which of the 5 sectors they would like to support (Animals, Basic community welfare, Children, Disability or Education) by buying one of those sector's stickers.  

It’s as easy as…

Get permission from your office to participate in the Tekkie Tax campaign on Friday 31 May 2013.

Promote the campaign with our free publicity material: posters and brochures to ensure that each person in the office will know about the campaign and gladly participate

Choose the beneficiary sector/s you and your colleagues would like to support and get the appropriate stickers: Animals, Basic community welfare, Children, Disability or Education. Ensure that each of your colleagues have one.

Wear your tekkies!  Now that you each have a sticker, show the world where your heart lies by wearing your sticker and your favourite pair of tekkies on Friday 31 May 2013.

Annelise de Jager project organiser said that “as experts in our field of service we know that running a fundraising campaign is expensive, labour intensive and holds a lot of risk factors for the organisation running it. Now we have brought together a mix of the most accountable welfare organisations in the country to do one big campaign where the public has the choice of whom they want to benefit by their donations.  This will save a lot of money and will create a platform for organisations that normally do not have the infrastructure to organise this kind of campaign.”

 The campaign is endorsed by some of the biggest and most accountable NGO’s in the country:

•               ChildWelfare SA

•               SOSChildren's Villages

•               SpecialOlympics SA

•               Alzheimer’sAssociation

•               Hospice

•               EndangeredWildlife Trust (EWT)

•               ChildhoodCancer Foundation SA (CHOC)

•               SouthAfrican Woman's Federation (SAVF) 

and the list goes on . . .

All our beneficiary organisations render a service in South Africa. They have been carefully selected, handpicked and we checked them out carefully to ensure that no matter which sector your choose to support, your donation will be used in the best possible way.

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Please spread the word and help raise awareness and funds for a cause close to your heart. 

It's worth it.

I know that I will definitely sponsor an animal welfare, as animals do not have a voice.

image via weheartit

Friday Fancies: in love with Lace

Tomorrow I am going for my first wedding dress fitting, and to be honest, I have been taking calming pills like they are sweets. If I'm this bad now, how on earth am I going to cope the actual week before the wedding, or the day of?

We might have to invest in horse tranquilisers. Just saying.

In honour of today's Friday Fancies with it's lace theme, I am sharing some beautiful lace wedding dresses. Although I still have no idea what sort of dress I am going to wear, or choose, I have gathered a few pretty lace wedding dresses from Pinterest. 

Get ready to drool some.

 

 

 

 

Conversations with Flip

I love reading the really funny things Megan, over at Across the Pond, and her English now-husband come up with in conversation. It made me a little more attentive to things Flip say, because he always says the weirdest and funniest things. These are some of the very strange things that comes to mind.

{Our house is on a corner with two stop signs. One Sunday night I got a bit irate}

M: It's late, why are there so many cars driving past our house at this time?

F: They all went to buy McFlurries, my love. 

{While blowdrying my hair, my ring gets tangled in my hair, so I take it off. Enter Mila}

M: Baby, we nearly had to schedule an emergency operation with Mila's vet appointment this afternoon. She almost swallowed my ring.

F: Well, then you would have had to carry Mila on your finger all day.

{While preparing dinner}

M: The potatoes are ready, will you please mash them?

F: Mash. Mash. Mash. Mash. You can just call me Lionel Mashi.

{While on the topic of food, one evening I made boerewors}

F: Look what I found in my can of sweet corn. 

{Boerewors pieces sticking out of can}

{On Facebook}

My status: You know it's time for a haircut when your hair gets too heavy and it hurts when you put it in a bun. 

Flip comments: Don't you have food? Why are you putting your hair in a bun?

The Mother City

I spent this weekend in good old Cape Town, the first time in 13 years. I was there last on a school tour. My verdict: meh. As an adult, I took in a lot more as an ignorant and wide eyed child - and I might get a lot of hate for this- but I prefer Joburg.

To me, it always feels like there is an eternal fight between the two cities; creativity wise mostly. And I have had this mad desire to move there because all the lifestyle magazine are based there and the picture that was sold via the internet, blogging etc was just sublime! But I hated the traffic, and the wind!

This is also probably every Gautenger's - or Valie's - complaint about the Mother City. Seriously, you guys down there cannot drive! That urban legend that the Cape is so chilled out and that everyone drives like they are on sabbatical, so true! I think everyone smokes fynbos down there.

Anyway, it wasn't just all complaints! I love the Western Cape {I wasn't in CT CBD itself - combination of traffic and people driving to slow that just kept me away} and would visit it much, much more now. But live there? You can keep your mountain. haha

More posts to come this week.

{PS: linking up here}