What we do

Heart-to-Heart Care Centre aims to bring life, hope and opportunity to children made orphaned or vulnerable in South Africa, by HIV/AIDS, TB and poverty. Heart-to-Heart believes that together WE CAN change the destiny of children one child at a time.

What are we about? I’m so glad you asked! We run 3 growing projects at the moment and we’re super excited to share them with you.

Pregnancy Care

Walking alongside women facing unplanned pregnancies. This team is dedicated to Care for and Support Teenage Girls and Women who find themselves in a crisis due to an unplanned pregnancy. Our aim is to help teens and women achieve their full potential in life. We offer the following services:

• Pregnancy Counselling
• Adoption Referral
• Pre & Post- Abortion Counselling

All of this is offered free of charge and confidential.

Three ways YOU can get involved:

• Giving a financial donation towards Pregnancy Care that will be used to buy on toiletries for New Born babies as well as new Moms
• Donating Baby Toiletries, sanitary pads or good condition baby clothing by dropping it off at our offices at 68 Apiesdoring street.
• Become a pregnancy Counsellor, we work alongside Options in George who provides a Pregnancy Counselling Course. You can contact us and become we will help you take the necessary steps to become a counsellor at our pregnancy Centre.

If you are interested in any of the above, give us a call or drop us an email!

Food Relief

For the past 23 years, Heart to Heart Care Centre’s Emergency Food Relief Programme in partnership with Woolworths, prioritises families that have no income, and no means available to establish their own food garden, with a special focus on Child-headed Households, the Elderly who are raising their Orphaned grandchildren, due to HIV/AIDS, TB or COVID and single moms.

In 2020 alone, Heart to Heart provided Emergency Food Relief to more than 3,000 people in the various communities of Mossel Bay.

Heart to Heart also provides non-food-items such as basic Toiletries, blankets and clothing when needed.

At Heart to Heart our Donors are our Family, and together we are saving lives, one person at a time!

How YOU can get involved:

• Give: Once off, monthly, add Heart to Heart Care Centre to your MyVillage Woolworths Card, donate non-perishable food.
• Volunteer: Fundraiser – Peer-to-Peer challenges, running, hikes or selling cupcakes; as long as you have Fun!

Change Won

At the Change Won Project we aim to holistically equip and uplift every high school student with the knowledge, skills and support in their personal and school life. The Change Won Project is a multifaceted project with four dimensions, namely:

• One-on-one Counselling
• Support Groups
• Community Dialogues
• Undiluted Programme

Our biggest aim with this project is to empower students to become the best version of themselves possible!
We want these young people to see that their future is bright, and what better way the to invest into them!

Three ways YOU can get involved:

• Giving a financial donation towards Change Won that will be used to buy on toiletries and School uniforms.
• Donating toiletries like sprays, roll-ons (male and/ female), sanitary pads or good condition Hillcrest school uniforms and school shoes that can be dropped off at our offices at 68 Apiesdoring street.
• Volunteer at the various programs. We run different programs throughout the year and would love for you to get involved in leading a small group at the program, help serve and just have fun with the teens! We will then contact you whenever a program is coming up where you can serve at.

If you are interested in any of the above, give us a call or drop us an email!

Literacy Centre

70% of children between ages 8-10 years old will not be able to speak, write or read English by the time they are 13 years old. Only 50% of them will go on to write final exams in high school.

This tugged at our hearts and therefor the Literacy centre was birthed! Where volunteers along with our Education Coordinator will asses and walk alongside these young ones to make sure they know they are not just a statistic on a board but a life that counts! Together we can transform lives through literacy!

Three ways YOU can get involved:

• Giving a financial donation towards Literacy Centre which will be used to buy stationery, school uniforms and reading books.
• Donating easy English reading books that can be dropped off at our offices at 68 Apiesdoring street.
• Volunteer at one of the below slots, you don’t need to be a former teacher, we provide you with training at no cost.

 If you are interested in any of the above, give us a call or drop us an email!