With the Festive Season just around the corner, chances are you’re looking for gift ideas.

The Reach For A Dream foundation is celebrating its 23rd birthday this year and 11286 fulfilled dreams nationally. On the 3rd of December Spice4Life will dedicate one of their Climbing Mountains challenges to Reach For A Dream on beautiful Table Mountain.

In December 2008 Angelo Henry ran an Antarctic Marathon, where he came in third for South Africa, and took his personal record to 7 marathons on all seven continents of the world. Now looms the final leg of Angelo’s ‘Grand Slam Club’ attempt – the North Pole Marathon.

I (like many urban people) spend most of my waking hours working. For this reason it is vital that I love what I do, since my work makes up such a large part of my daily life. While loving what I do is important, it is also important that the output of my activities includes love as well, or I do not really “feel it” inside.

The Salvation Army, together with Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town, have set out to lift the veil on child trafficking with an innovative outdoor campaign to inform the unknowing South African public about the severity of human trafficking, the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.

WHEAT Trust is a national women's fund committed to grassroots women's empowerment for community development through skills training. WHEAT awards grants to individual women and women led community based organisations (CBOs/CSOs) to ensure active participation of women in the development of their respective communities.

The Chrysalis training concept is a five-year programme broken into 3 distinct phases aimed at empowering unemployed youth, both physically and mentally, for the challenges of life. Participation in all phases is voluntary and training is conducted at the Chrysalis Academy in Tokai, Cape Town, South Africa.

With its motto of ‘a hand up – not a hand out,’ Learn to Earn seeks to develop people, especially unemployed people, socially, economically, emotionally and spiritually. The vision is ‘to eradicate unemployment and other legacies of injustice in South Africa and Africa’.

Chaeli Mycroft had an accident and is now living the life in his wheelchair. I was completely blown away by this man’s energy! I am still buzzing!

Hundreds of rape survivors will be able to get help thanks to recent grants paid to Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust, an NGO working to support survivors of rape.

For centuries the rose has been a gift that speaks of love wordlessly, in the language of the heart and soul; if you are looking for a gift that will speak to the heart, bloom for far longer than a week and also help a child in need, then the ‘SOS Children’s Rose’ will make the perfect gift for any ocassion.