Help The Rural Child was set up in 2005 and already has 8 shops in the Greater Cape Town area. We are based in Cape Town where we have 3 second-hand bookshops and 5 charity shops that sell clothing and bric-a-brac. Our shops enable us to create funds by selling donated items. Our efforts are environmentally-friendly because we recycle unwanted goods, by reselling them, instead of them ending up in landfill sites.

Our charity shops are a unique funding model. By creating a sustainable network of shops that are self-sufficient and profitable, we are able to fund and strengthen development projects which focus on disadvantaged rural children. Our aim is for each shop to generate 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, books and household goods to stock our shops. We also need money to set up and open new shops and volunteers to run our shops.

The more shops we run, 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.