SALT MINISTRY (Sharing Abundant Life Together)

Our Ministry

Our aim is to build up the lives of those in need and to uplift our community – in other words, to Share Abundant Life Together.

What we do

SALT motivates and encourages volunteers to become involved in local projects and to network with other organisations and churches in order to work together to bring about positive change and to help uplift our local community.
We also assist TB/HIV/AIDS patients in their recovery to health by assisting with nutrition, support and general health care.

Our Projects

LIGHT Bags (Living in Grace, Hope and Thankfulness)

These bags are special food parcels aimed at assisting TB/HIV/AIDS patients who are on ARV’S and need nutrition to aid their recovery. Many patients on medication also suffer from malnutrition, are unemployed or too ill to work, and have families to support. A LIGHT bag can feed a family of four for one week.

Enozipho Edu-care / Day-care centre

Lillian Dikana and her staff take care of approximately 100 children every month from the Joe Slovo informal settlement while their parents are at work. She currently runs the Edu-care and Day-care from two old shipping containers, with no toilet facilities and very limited space. SALT has partnered with her to offer assistance.

Our vision is to build a Christian edu-care centre where children can be looked after in a safe environment, be taught Godly values and inspired to reach their goals and dreams. We also want to provide an aftercare facility for the many children in this community who are left alone and unsupervised after school until their parents return from work. We want to offer them supervised homework sessions, computer skills as well as teach them valuable life skills.

Feed the Nation

This project networks with accredited organizations.

Keep a child in School: This project is aimed at children who have left school due to poverty related causes, in order to find work or to beg on the streets. Keep a child in School pays for their schooling and our SALT ministry provides them with a food parcel every week.

TLC ministry: This ministry is aimed at street children, to keep the children off the street and from begging for food. Many of these children are involved in child prostitution and drugs. Children are placed with foster mothers in the informal settlements and SALT provides the foster mother with food parcels to assist in feeding the children.

Itemba Care: This organisation finds families to foster an HIV positive child. A grant can take up to six months to be approved and SALT steps in and provides the family with a weekly food parcel until the grant is approved.

Disaster Management

We support our community in times of disaster such as fire and floods. We offer relief by supplying food, blankets and clothing.

During the 2008 xenophobic attacks in and around the city, SALT was instrumental in assisting with relief aid to such an extent that we were nominated by the Table View Police forum to be part of the official Disaster Management team for our community.

Establishing an ownership for our community

Table View is a growing community, and just like any other community we sometimes experience problems regarding the up keep of our parks, our pavements and other areas. Graffiti artists deface walls, we don’t recycle, and we litter.

SALT believes that it is time for us to take responsibility and have pride in our suburb. We plan to launch this project in the first term of 2009 and our teams will be targeting areas that need to be upgraded or worked on.

Those involved will be volunteers from our community.

How you can help us

You can help us in practical ways as well as by offering financial assistance:

LIGHT BAGS

SALT supplies the community with approximately 800 bags a month. A bag costs R75.00 to fill with the basic food necessities.
You can also contribute by donating food items to SALT.

DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Items required during a disaster are many – here are some examples: food, toiletries, baby formula and food, clothing, towels and blankets.

COMMUNITY OWNERSHIP

This project requires items such as paint and building materials.

*Our banking details are as follows:

FIRST NATIONAL BANK (Table View: Cape Town, SOUTH AFRICA)
Branch code: 203809
Account no: 62048287363
Zip code: FIRNZAJJ

How to contact us:

Director – Pauline de Klerk
Visit our website: saltprojects.org.za. Or visit us on Facebook – search for SALT. Alternatively, contact us at the Church office for more information or email us at pauline.deklerk@aog.co.za.