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4 Ways to Give!
1. Make an ongoing donation.$35 a month provides the following services to a child at an Orphan Center:
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2. Click below to make a donation with a credit card through PayPal.
Credit cards can be used to make your contribution to Santa Cruz Cares through PayPal (click on “make a donation” above) or for more information regarding making a donation to AFnet by check or other means contact us by e-mail at santacruzcares@calcentral.com or phone 831/761-2162.
3. You can volunteer your time and talents to assist with future events:
Volunteer to serve on one of the committees planning future events. If you are interested in participating, contact us at santacruzcares@calcentral.com or call 831/761-2162.
4. Now you can also donate your old cell phones to help these children!
Join the Great Cell Phone Drive!! Santa Cruz Cares Team members have placed cell phone distribution boxes throughout the Santa Cruz County area. Please start collecting discarded cell phones (Did you or your family get a new phone for Christmas? Or are you ready to switch to one of the new and exciting phones just out?) Collect as many phones as you can and take them to the locations listed on this site and in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Pajaronian. Santa Cruz Cares will sell them to Pace Butler Corporation and receive money for Aids Orphans; and our environment will be cleared of old cell phones, so our community will be better!
| So far the donated cell phones
have generated over $700
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Why Donate? What does your donation do?
All fund raising by Santa Cruz Cares prior to the fall of 2008, went to build, equip, and operate the Tsakelani Orphan Day Care Center in Soshanguve. Our focus will continue to be towards full funding of this center which, when fully operational, costs $3,500 per month to run ($42,000 per year).
In the fall of 2008, the AFnet Board came to the decision that they would not be able to expand their orphan program until there is truly a sponsor to support each child that is currently in the program. AFnetAid is committed to 552 orphans in five centers. The Tsakelani Center is "full" with 68 sponsored children and cannot accept more (even though it has the capacity for 100) until the day that all 552 children have sponsors. As a group, Santa Cruz Cares and TLC have emotional and real ties with the newly constructed Mansa, Zambia, AIDS Orphan Center. We have committed to help solicit and encourage sponsorships for the children at the ICB (Icisubilo Ca Bana, which means Hope for the Children in the Bemba language) Center. Twenty of the orphans are being sponsored by friends from Denmark, so with their cooperation we seek to fully fund this center.
AFnetAid's monthly commitment: |
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| St Francis School Kondelelani School Nchencheko School Grandma Sambo's family |
115 food parcels (they have 20 Danish sponsors) 101 food parcels 078 food parcels 005 food parcels |
| Total | 299 food parcels |
| Tsakelani Day Care Center has 68 children with 68 sponsors. Of this group, 38 receive food parcels in addition to their daily care. | |
| Nellie's residential orphanage is now under the Tsakelani program; 25 kids live there. | |
| Icisubilo Ca Bana (Mansa, Zambia) has 60 children; 38 sponsors. | |
| Ithemba la Bantwana (sponsored by Big Valley Church) has 112 children; 40 sponsors. | |
| All the centers and the feeding program need more sponsors. Operating the centers costs roughly $35 per month per child when the center if fully attended. | |
| Providing food parcels (which also feeds the entire family) costs $50 per month. | |
| It costs $165 per month to pay the salary for one day-care worker or a home-based care worker. | |
Santa Cruz Cares receives its non profit status under the umbrella of AFnetAid which is a 501(c)(3) corporation. Your donations to Santa Cruz Cares will be receipted for tax purposes. Donations made directly to AFnet and/or AFnetAid will be receipted by AFnet.
If you would like to help support an orphan center by providing a monthly amount (If $35 is too much or too little for your budget, any amount will help – or your excess over $35 can help someone else reach the goal.) You can arrange through AFnet to have a regular contribution taken from your checking or savings account – or you can send a regular donation. Look at www.afnet.org to learn more about AFnet, an incorporated 501(c)(3) organization which means your donation is tax deductible. Please specify the name of the orphan center you are supporting or if your preference is for monthly food packet distribution in the public schools.
Watch this site for more opportunities
to serve and donate, and contact us
if you have suggestions for additional fund raisers.