The Uncharitable World of Charity

It's not an easy path through life we've chosen for ourselves. We are faced with high emotions and the reality of death every single day. We pride ourselves on being the only children's Cancer charity that actually goes right into the townships. We know there is often danger, but we go in there anyway; how could we refuse help to a sick child living in terrible circumstances?

We carry on, every day, because we want to, and we feel we must. We feel that if we don't do the job, someone else will just come along, raise the money and pretend to help those in need.

Sometimes we have a day that makes us wonder what it's all really for, and if it's really worth it to carry on...

LIttle Fighters was fotunate enough to be chosen as one of the three beneficiaries of the 'Cause We can/Want Ons Kan concert in Bellville. We never got to watch the show though because before it even started we were waylaid by four large women; two of them distracted us while the other stole Thomas' bag.

The bag contained all of the Trust’s photographic equipment, to the value of about R30 000, as well as all the Pick & Pay grocery vouchers for our most needy families. We provide substantially valued grocery vouchers, per family R2000.00 per month. This has been a tremendous setback for our organization.

The response, or lack thereof, by the Belville Police was hugely disappointing.

If any of our fans and friends were at the concert and had a video camera, please please send your footage on to us! We'd like to be able to see if the women were caught on camera. Someone has to try to track them down, and it doesn't seem to us that the police are going to try.

We won't stop doing what we do; we know that we are needed and we could never let our families down like that. But it's not easy to keep going on when things like this happen.

Pray for us... we need some strength today...

Tune in to Good Hope FM this morning to hear our team! We'll be on Guy Macdonald's show at about 8:40 am.