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TEASER: Locals gather at the E.L Golf Club for a good cause

Gately Rotary Club hosted hundreds of people at a breakfast fundraising event on Saturday, with the guest speaker, Tracy Going, sharing her story in a memoir she wrote. For the full story, get The GO! & Express Newspaper tomorrow.…

Kids turn to streets out of real need

Children begging on the street corners, some with their parents, are a cause for concern for non-profit organisation Christelike Maatskaplike Raad (CMR). According to the organisation, the trend rose rises during school holidays with…

Social workers and chief social worker at the satellite office in Parkisde. From left: Illse Page, Leonice Vrolik, and Lorraine Macdougall Picture:SIVENATHI GOSA

Parkside CMR office opens

THE Christelike Maatskaplike Raad (CMR) has expanded its services offices and have recently by opening a new satellite office in Parkside. CMR East London has absorbed some of Child Welfare’s staff and will take over its child protection…

Suffer the children of Buffalo City

CMR to take over after Child Welfare forced to close doors AFTER 102 years of service to the community, Child Welfare East London (CWF) officially closed its doors on March 31. The non-profit organisation fought a tough battle through the…

AFFORDABLE SHOPPING: Christelike Maatskaplike Raad (CMR) manager Gaye Moonieya, and the organisation’s marketer, Nwabisa Dlabati, unpack second-hand donations to stock the new Out of the Box charity shop in Old Transkei Road, Nahoon, which will help fund CMR’s welfare work Picture: BARBARA HOLLANDS

Charity shop offers double benefit

A new East London charity shop is all set to make a safe house for battered women and children more self-sufficient. Profits made by the Out of the Box charity shop, which opened for business in Old Transkei Road, Nahoon, on Wednesday…

A place where victims can become victors

By Barbara Hollands When a woman clutching an infant, a nine-year-old daughter battling cancer and the stick her husband used to beat her arrived at a safe house for women, social worker Gaye Moonieya knew she’d found her niche. “I hate…