Dorcas Aid leads NPOs forward

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With Dorcas Aid leading the West Rand community to the more efficient work of relevant NPOs, regional director Annette Reed believes her contacts could be of help to a newly-founded forum.

“I am more than happy to share my contacts and those contacts and resources of Dorcas Aid South Africa with the new Shelter Networking Forum.

“It is my hope that us coming together would make more of a difference to a greater amount of community members than what we as individual organisations can do.”

After the conference held on 8 August at the Rainbow FM hall on Goldman Street in Florida, representatives from different organisations (now stakeholders in the forum) could be found networking and exchanging ideas on how to deal with typical organisation problems.

“One of the problems that local organisations face is a lack of capacity and a lack of knowledge of our fellow organisations,” Reed believes.

“It is for this reason that this conference was arranged.”

Lanie de Klerk from the Baby Moses Baby Sanctuary was one of the attending representatives.

“I am very excited to see this forum help us to help our communities,” she told the Record.

Some of the issues highlighted during the conference was surrounding the lack of capacity for and knowledge about homeless people, abused women and children and non-South African citizens in need of social care.

“Going forward, I hope that I, for example, can work with Barnswallows in Weltevreden Park to help find both organisations enough resources and the capacity to deal with certain cases.”

The general idea was to get interlinked organisations together to network and research ways in which to assist one another with the difficult issues highlighted earlier.

“Dorcas Aid South Africa will be responsible for assuring our next Shelter Networking Forum meeting to see how we are going forward,” Reed told the Record, saying that the organisation of following meetings will be circulated amongst stakeholders.