The Hope Challenge

I just became a Hope Ambassador...Join the Hope Challenge today and improve the lives of others while improving your own life. To find out more, go to   http://splash.thehopechallenge.com/laurenjean/

NELSON MANDELA“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

How Our Sponsors Benefit

Hunger & Thirst is registered as a: 

• Section 21 Company with the Registrar of Companies (CIPRO)
• Non Profit Organization (NPO) with the Department of Social Development
• Public Benefit Organization (PBO) with SARS

Tax Advantages: 
In terms of Sec 18A of the Income Tax Act, we are authorized to issue donation receipts, making your donations tax deductible.
BEE Advantages:

Entities also get up to 25 points (out of 100 points) on their BEE scorecard, as more than 80% of our foundation’s beneficiaries are previously disadvantaged individuals.
Self-fulfillment & the Joy of Contribution:

Apart from these practical benefits, the deeper benefit of becoming involved in our mission is the chance to reach out and enrich the life of a child in need.  The extent of positive repercussions stemming from this one action cannot be known or calculated.  Who knows who this child will become one day?  A future leader in our land?  A teacher themselves?  Who knows who he or she in turn will reach out to and assist?  You can be responsible for massive, positive change within a person, a community, a country.

Anthony Robbins

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.”  Anthony Robbins

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

Leave a Legacy

Corporate Sponsors: Please use some of your CSI budget to sponsor as many children as possible for at least 12 months with a view to extending to 36 months once you assure yourselves of the viability of our program.  

You can also offer the opportunity to your employees to personally adopt a child as their part in our community development program.

     

“There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy'. The need to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people, to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution.” Stephen Covey

What we require of our sponsors

As Hunger & Thirst is now well established and we understand how best to run our project with a 100% success rate, we are now able to expand country wide. We are looking for partners who can:

• sponsor any number of children at R247.50 per child per month, for a minimum period of 12 months (R 2970 per child per year)

Once we are assured of a 12 – 36 month commitment for a minimum of 1 000 beneficiaries, we can then put the program in place in your community. 

We will identify the children, create 109 jobs, set up the training schedule and implement our support centres.

"You are not here merely to make a living.  You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement."  
Woodrow T. Wilson

Are you inspired to get involved?

2 Million Steps has a huge mission. Feeding 14 million children and creating 2 million jobs. This is no mean feat – and to achieve our aim – we want to empower people to join their efforts with ours towards this worthy cause. 

We are offering you an opportunity to become a 2 Million Steps agent, earn a monthly income and help us to spread our project into all 9 Provinces. For more information please contact me.  

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.  I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.  When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town.  I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.  Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family.  My family and I could have made an impact on our town.  Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.  ~Author Unknown

2 Million Steps

With the success of our project and future expansion plans, along with our association with Pro Africa and Nourish the Children, we found ourselves requiring a more professional approach to securing funds. From this need came the birth of our marketing arm 2 MILLION STEPS whose mission is a simple one :– 

IT IS MY JOB TO CREATE YOUR JOB! 

Ø  To Feed 14 Million children.     

Ø  To Mentor our children to become tomorrow’s leaders.

Ø  To Employ 2 million unemployed unskilled South Africans.

Ø  To Uplift Communities and build a sustainable economy.

Ø  To make South Africa safer and more prosperous.

Ø  Together we can leave a LEGACY for your children and mine!

"I am only one, but I am one.  
I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  
And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."  ~Edward Everett Hale

Creating 2 million job opportunities

How our leadership schools are staffed:

For every 1000 young leaders in our program, we provide 11 mentors, 67 previous year matriculants (coaches), 29 food team members and 2 overseers with employment, a total of 109 jobs. A further 30 jobs are created with our added association with Pro Africa and Nourish the Children who provide our feeding component.

Our vision to feed 14 million impoverished children in South Africa will require the establishment of planting factories providing huge opportunities for business ownership and employment. 

Each factory employs 40 - 50 people and will be run on a franchise system. This initiative will create in excess of 2 million job opportunities. The first step to achieving this goal took place in February 2010 when the first four prospective business owners started their apprenticeship with Pro Africa.

“Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a friend, a mentor, and a guide.” - S. Truett Cathy, Founder of  Chic-fil-A