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Help The Rural Child was set up in 2005 and already has 4 shops! We are based in Cape Town where we have two second-hand bookshops and two charity shops selling clothing and bric-a-brac. Our shops enable us to create money by selling donated items.
We are also helping the environment by recycling unwanted goods, selling them at low prices to be used again instead of ending up in landfill sites.
This is a unique funding model. By creating a sustainable network of shops that are self-sufficient and profitable, we are able to fund and strengthen good development projects which focus on disadvantaged rural children.
Each shop can make enough money annually to pay the running costs of one Rural Youth Centre for a year.
But we need your help! We rely on donations of clothes and books and household goods to stock our shops. We also rely on volunteers to run our shops. And we need money to set up and open new shops.
Each shop costs between R100,000 and R200,000 to set up and then there is rent to pay and staff and transport costs for collecting stock. But once the shop is up and running we can make enough profit each year to run a Rural Youth Centre providing health, educational and recreational facilities for hundreds of disadvantaged children.
The more shops we have the more money we make. The more money we make the more social projects we can fund. The more projects we fund the more rural children we help to break out of the poverty trap.
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