SOS Children’s Villages is the world’s largest organization focused on ensuring that children and young people without parental care or at risk of losing it grow up with the relationships, care and support they need to become their strongest selves.
loveLife promotes healthy, positive, HIV-free living among South African teenagers. loveLife combines a sustained high-powered multi-media campaign with nationwide community-level outreach and support programmes for youth. loveLife’s programmes are implemented by a national youth volunteer service corps known as groundBREAKERS in partnership with more than 230 community-based non-government organisations, 8000 schools and 479 government clinics across South Africa.
In 2013, major funding for loveLife is provided by the National Department of Health, the National Department of Social Development and Sports and Recreation South Africa.
The Anglo American Chairman’s Fund, Berco, Dewey & Le Boeuf, FIFA Football for Hope, Gesellschaft für internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Mpumalanga Department of Social Development, the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund, Newsclip, North West Department of Social Development, Royal Bafokeng Nation, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Volkswagen South Africa.
For over 38 years, Reach for a Dream Foundation has been dedicated to alleviating the strain that life-threatening illnesses placed on sick children and their families by providing dreamers with the opportunity to believe in their greatest wish. Our mission is to encourage children to use their dreams to fight life-threatening illnesses and inspire hope. We bring joy and laughter to their difficult situation and help them believe that tomorrow is worth fighting for.
These children are between the ages of 3 to 18 years. They have used their dream to fight illnesses such as cancer, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, kidney failure, blood disorders and heart conditions.