Many South Africans arrive in Oz and live well and prosper, but unfortunately some immigration experiences are not smooth sailing, and some people face immense difficulties or traumatic incidents in a country where they have little support as a result of having recently relocated.

 

We need your help to assist people in need. Please join the Sabona Appeals Network so that you can be part of a group that is notified of people in need in your state. The request could include almost anything, but your assistance may involve meeting someone for coffee, visiting someone in hospital, providing accommodation, groceries or cooked meals, donating furniture that you no longer need, helping with transport to the airport, providing a listening ear over the telephone, and so on.

 

Sabona will email requests to the Network members in the relevant geographic area. A co-ordinator will be identified for each request and that person will liaise with Sabona, the person or family in need and other members of the Network. As a member of the Network, you will receive the notifications, but are under no obligation to assist with any request. If you are able to assist in one way or another at any time, that's great, and, we assure you, will mean a lot to the person or family in need.

 

In conjunction with the Network, Sabona has started Project Fish, which comes from the concept that you can give someone a fish and feed them for a day, or teach them to fish and feed them for a lifetime. The ultimate goal of Project Fish is to assist people to meet financial needs, but it is not a charity. The initiative will be run as a business to help others set up a business. The idea is for people to support the project financially as an investment that will hopefully show a return. Sabona magazine will co-ordinate Project Fish and actively support it through advertising and promotion. Sabona will ensure that businesses that assist with this project will be rewarded through such exposure.