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FILE: Gift of the Givers founder Imtiaz Sooliman. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News

Gift of the givers foundation

'I won't be going into politics' - reiterates Gift of the Givers' founder

By Graig-Lee Smith

The aid organisation is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and has outlined its achievements throughout the three decades.

  • FILE: Picture: 123rf.com

    Gift of the Givers donates oxygen machines to EC health facilities

    The province has been identified as one of the country’s coronavirus hotspots following the rapid spread of COVID-19, with fears the health system could soon be incapacitated.

    590 days ago
  • Residents inspect the damage along Gouraud Street in the Gemayzeh neighbourhood of Beirut to clear debris on 6 August 2020, two days after a massive explosion shook the Lebanese capital. Picture: AFP

    Gift of the Givers contributes R1 million to relief efforts in Lebanon

    Lebanon’s capital city was rocked by the blast at its port last week that killed more than 160 people, injured around 6,000, and displaced about 300,000 people.

    729 days ago
  • Mitchells Plain Disctrict Hospital officials receive oxygen machines, surgical gowns and scrubs and PPE from the Gift of the Givers Foundation on 6 August 2020. Picture: @GiftoftheGivers/Facebook

    Gift of the Givers hands over R10m renovated ward to Mitchells Plain Hospital

    Gift of the Givers founder Imtiaaz Sooliman explained that the organisation had transformed a ward at the Mitchells Plain Hospital into an oxygen facility.

    734 days ago
  • Gift of the Givers volunteers pack boxes of masks, gloves, gowns & disinfectants into trucks. The supplies will be taken to health facilities assisting patients and staff on the front lines of the fight against the spread of the coronavirus. Picture: @GiftoftheGivers/Twitter

    Gift of Givers sets up testing centres but warns: 'We don’t just test anybody'

    The organisation said the centres in some parts of Johannesburg are aimed at easing the pressure on government hospitals.

    870 days ago
  • FILE: Gift of the Givers founder Imtiaz Sooliman. Picture: Kevin Brandt/Eyewitness News

    Gift of the Givers says it will continue serving Soweto despite hijacking

    The organisation’s founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman said this was not the first time that the humanitarian group’s vehicles were targeted.

    911 days ago
  • The latest picture of SA photographer Shiraaz Mohamed from the Gift of the Givers on Sunday 15 December 2019. Picture: @GiftoftheGivers/Twitter

    Shiraz Mohamed should be home soon - Gift of the Givers

    Mohammed was kidnapped in Syria in 2017 while he was on assignment travelling with the relief organisation.

    967 days ago
  • The latest picture of SA photographer Shiraaz Mohamed from the Gift of the Givers on Sunday 15 December 2019. Picture: @GiftoftheGivers/Twitter

    SA photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed’s family cautious amid ‘escape’ reports

    Aid organisation Gift of the Givers confirmed on Sunday that Mohamed escaped from captivity in Syria and was handed over to Turkish authorities.

    968 days ago
  • Picture: Pixabay.com.

    EC drought leads to unsanitary conditions at Makhanda school

    The town is almost entirely reliant on water tankers and humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers has been instrumental in drilling new boreholes to ensure those tankers can be filled.

    994 days ago
  • Picture: EWN.

    Residents of Pomona informal settlement yet to rebuild after devastating fire

    Gift of the Givers Foundation and other groups rallied behind the community after 200 shacks were burnt on Monday night and left hundreds of people homeless.

    1043 days ago
  • Shiraaz Mohamed. Picture: Facebook.com

    Another video of kidnapped SA photojournalist Shiraaz Mohamed surfaces

    The Johannesburg-based photographer was taken by unknown masked men while on an assignment for the Gift of the Givers Foundation in Syria in 2017.

    1184 days ago
  • Shiraaz Mohamed. Picture: Facebook.com

    Shiraaz Mohamed’s captors request $1.5m ransom

    Earlier this year, NGO Gift of the Givers received proof that Mohamed who was abducted in Syria in January 2017 was still alive.

    1194 days ago
  • FILE: A man tries to salvage some of his furniture at an informal settlement of BottleBrush, south of Durban, after torrential rains and flash floods destroyed his home on 23 April 2019. Picture: AFP

    Gift of the Givers to distribute food parcels in flood-hit Durban

    The heavy rains, which caused massive landslides, also left hundreds of people displaced while 10 others are still missing.

    1204 days ago
  • People watch on as food and supplies get dropped in the Estaquinha area. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Relief efforts battle to reach Mozambique communities cut off by Cyclone Idai

    Grant Tyson from Gift of the Givers said the team was focusing on the communities who had been stranded and had no access to any supplies.

    1233 days ago
  • FILE: Medical team members work at the port in Beira, Mozambique on 22 March 2019. Aid workers faced disarray and a clamour for help on 22 March, as they headed out across central Mozambique, battling to help tens of thousands of people battered by one of southern Africa's most powerful storms, cyclone Idai. Picture: AFP

    Cyclone Idai: Gift of the Givers shifts focus to medical treatment

    Idai had left at least 417 people dead in Mozambique alone with hundreds more killed in Zimbabwe and Malawi.

    1234 days ago
  • FILE: This handout picture taken and released on 18 March 2019 by the Mission Aviation Fellowship shows people on a roof surrounded by flooding in an area affected by Cyclone Idai in Beira. Picture: AFP

    Cyclone Idai: Gift of the Givers sends 32-member team to Maputo

    Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi were all hit by a cyclone Idai which has left a trail of destruction since it made landfall last Thursday.

    1240 days ago
  • FILE: Gift of the Givers workers prepare to handover bottled water to municipalities facing drought. Picture: www.giftofthegivers.org.

    Gift of the Givers donates 100,000 litres of water to Kannaland

    The Kannaland Municipality says dams in various areas, including Calitzdorp and Zoar, are running dry.

    1300 days ago
  • The Gift of the Givers distribute hampers in Alexandra on 10 December 2018 after a fire ripped through the informal settlement on 6 December 2018. Picture: EWN

    Gift of Givers continue with relief efforts in Alex following fire

    The blaze ripped through an informal settlement in the township on Thursday afternoon which destroyed hundreds of shacks.

    1338 days ago
  • At least one person died after a fire broke out in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in the early hours of 20 October 2018. Picture: @NMakoba/Twitter

    Gift of the Givers offers R2m aid package to Khayelitsha fire victims

    The team of volunteers is working closely with the City of Cape Town’s disaster management and the SA Social Security Agency to assist affected residents.

    1389 days ago
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