Township stories and realities - 300 meals served

 

This week: 300 meals served, 25kg of rescued market produce, 10 new monthly givers, 5 graded readers donated for Mrs Mahlangu's list, and one new reading buddy.

Behind those numbers: a teacher who keeps sending children with notes that say "Start here". A 16-year-old who brings a pencil so kids can count their right answers. A volunteer who cooks three mornings a week and still makes it to her own shift.

We share the figures so you can see where your support goes. We share the people because they're the ones doing the work.

Gogo Storytime week two starts at 10am today, with porridge first. Follow our stories for photos, and thank you for getting us here.

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Township stories and realities - Ma Lerato

 

Ma Lerato volunteers three mornings a week. On the other four, she's raising three children and working a part-time cleaning shift.

She's 38. Her own two kids and her sister's son all eat breakfast at the kitchen before school, and she says that's part of why she helps: "I'm not going to sit and watch other people cook for my children."

People like Ma Lerato carry a lot without saying much about it. So at the end of every Friday shift, the volunteers stop for twenty minutes. 

Tea, whatever's left of the bread, and nobody's allowed to talk about work. It started as a joke. Now nobody skips it.

Who are the people quietly holding your family or street together? Leave them a message here. 

They might see it.

 

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You're Not Lazy, You're Tired: Gentle Routines for Burnt-Out People

 

 Our new book - You're Not Lazy, You're Tired: Gentle Routines for Burnt-Out People 

by Selah Grace  - CLR Foundation

 Available on Amazon - 

EBOOK Link -https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMW39TGX 

PAPERBACK  Link - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HMWCMW4Q

 All proceeds go directly to the foundation so that we can continue helping the poor people who really are desperate and so we thank you all for your support.   Buy the book or share the links to help us continue our work. 

 Book Description - 

Why "Try Harder" Isn't Working
You don't need to become a different person. You just need to be a little gentler with the person you already are.
If you picked up this book, we suspect you're tired.
Not the kind of tired that a good night's sleep fixes. The kind that follows you around all day. The kind that makes small tasks feel enormous, mornings feel like a battle, and evenings feel like a race against your own racing mind.
And we suspect you've already tried to fix it.
Perhaps you've followed the advice to get up earlier. Perhaps you've downloaded the planner, the habit tracker or the meditation app. Perhaps you've watched the videos that promise a perfect routine will change your life. And perhaps, when it didn't work, you quietly decided that the problem was you.
Not disciplined enough. Not organised enough. Lazy.
We'd like to begin this book by gently disagreeing with you.
You're not lazy
Most of the productivity advice out there is written for people who already have energy to spare. It assumes that if you're struggling, what you need is more structure, more discipline and more effort.
But when you're exhausted, burnt out or overstimulated, more effort is often the very thing you can't give. Pushing harder on an empty tank doesn't get you further. It just makes you feel worse when you stall.
Many people learn this the hard way. They try the popular routines: the early alarms, the long morning rituals, the strict plans. Some of them help a little. Most of them simply become something new to feel guilty about. What usually makes the difference isn't trying harder. It's learning to be gentler.
That's what this book is about.
What this book offers
This is a short, practical book for tired people. Every idea in it is designed to be small, simple and kind.

• There are no 5 a.m. alarms.
• There are no hour-long routines.
• There's no expensive equipment, no special diet and no app to download.

  Instead, you'll find a handful of gentle habits that take between one and ten minutes, and that you can fit into an ordinary, busy, imperfect life.