Teaching With Empathy “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”- Leo Buscaglia I’m going to be honest with you, over this lockdown period I’ve been […]
A Cape Town School made 3972 sandwiches for those less fortunate. While Covid-19 has been devastating it has also made many of us more aware of those around us, made us empathetic and reminded us how easy and rewarding it is to help others. The French School of Cape Town wanted to use their annual […]
Today the world celebrated World Food Day, a day dedicated to drawing attention to world hunger. The stats are frightening. Approximately 870 million undernourished people in the world and an estimate of 13 million South Africans going hungry every day. The Do More Foundation set an ambitious goal to break a world record by making […]
In April we celebrated International Day for Street Children, and its occurrence got me thinking: Why do we need a special day to remind us to recognise the potential in every street child – to see their humanity and to do what we can to help? Especially in a South Africa where we encounter homeless […]
The occasion of Arbor Day, which is celebrated on the last Friday of April annually, is designed to encourage each and every one of us to plant a tree in an effort to re-green our planet. But when millions of hectares of forest are being wiped out every year, when our world’s lungs are being […]
This past Friday, 12 April, was International Day for Street Children, and its occurrence got me thinking: Why do we need a special day to remind us to see the potential in every street child – to recognise their humanity and to do what we can to help? Especially in a South Africa where we […]
In celebration of Madiba’s centenary birthday, Africans from 11 different countries were encouraged to get clean about plastic pollution and waste. As part of our #ActforChange initiative hosted by Shoprite and Brownie Points, cleanup events were co-ordinated right across our continent. This was our chance to band together and make Mama Africa beautiful again. In […]
“Leave nothing but footprints and take nothing but photos,” these are two major sentiments of Love Our Trails, an organisation aimed at preening and preserving our country’s beautiful walking and hiking trails. Last week we heard volunteer Sasha Fairhead’s recount of the recent Lion’s Head Cleanup, today we get another angle on the story from Love […]
Our blog is almost one year old! And what better way to celebrate than to grow our family of contributors and spread even more Brownie Points love! Last week we heard from NPO and Corporate co-ordinator Malcolm Boyd, today we’re super excited to introduce Sasha Fairhead, our very first Brownie Points volunteer ambassador. In this post she inspires us […]
This week we chatted to Carol Bruton, chairperson of Rescue Among Many (RAM) about their recent food and shoe drive at Ashbury Primary and what they have lined up for 2018. Firstly, who is RAM? RAM (Rescue Among Many) was founded in 2011 in Montagu by myself and husband Stephen Bruton. We’re dedicated to […]