We at
are asking you to help children in very practical ways.
If this website touches your heart, all we ask is that you send the baby or children’s clothes that you have in your ragbag or recycle box to South Africa instead – it would be more appreciated than you will ever know!
Julian and Kirsty Kotze, are both Tourism guides for well-known tour
operators, but still find time out of their busy schedules to support a
network of small charities, all run on a shoestring in South Africa.
All of these struggling concerns support children, ranging from 1 day
to 16 years, who are suffering from HIV/Aids and are at various stages
of progression of the diseases caused by immunity failure.
If
black South African parents die of HIV, custom and practice has always
been that grandparents automatically support their children. Nowadays
the family unit is under so much pressure the grandparents cannot cope
with looking after all these little ones. They themselves most often
have no running water or sanitation, money is extremely short and they
can’t afford to feed and clothe the children. Through various official
and unofficial routes the children end up “given away” via the police
or the court to local orphanages or foster homes.
It is this network of homes that RagBag supports.
Ragbag was founded by Sandra Niven in May 2008 and has already
attracted supporters around the world as you will see on the
International Network page and she is the UK communications contact.
Email: sandra.ragbag@googlemail.com