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Stand With Your Community

Every act of dignity begins with someone who chooses to act. Whether you donate, offer your time and skills, or partner with us as an organisation, you help ensure that no girl misses school because of her period, and no family goes without the basics of clean, healthy living.

Volunteer

Offer Your Time & Skills

The Foundation is powered by people who show up for their neighbours. Whatever your skills, there is a place for them here as we prepare our first programme cycle — these are seven ways to help.

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Why volunteers matter

Our distributions are designed to be community-run. Volunteers will be the hands that assemble the packs, welcome neighbours at events, capture the story and keep everything documented, turning distribution days into celebrations of dignity, never queues for charity.

We work with communities, not just for them. Volunteering with the Foundation means building lasting dignity from within — alongside the local community networks we are building, and your own neighbours.

What to expect

  • A quarterly rhythm. Our programmes are designed to run on quarterly distribution drives, so you will be able to plan your time well in advance.
  • Dignified, community-run events. Every event will be organised with community networks, and beneficiaries welcomed as rights-holders.
  • Training provided. Workshop facilitators will be prepared alongside healthcare professionals before ever leading a session.
  • Your effort, documented. Every distribution will be documented with attendance registers, count records and photographs — so your contribution is visible in every outcome report.

No experience needed for most roles, just reliability, respect for the community, and a willingness to serve with Ubuntu.

Volunteer application

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Thank you for stepping forward

Your willingness to serve builds dignity in Makhaza. We respond to every application by email as we prepare our first programme cycle. Your email app has opened with your message — press send to complete your submission.

Partner

Partner With Us

We are proud and grateful to have Shoprite as our founding sponsor; proof that dignity scales fastest when we build it together. Businesses, schools, NGOs, healthcare providers and government institutions: we invite you to join us as we prepare our first programme cycle. Here are six ways your organisation can stand with Makhaza.

Product donations

Donate sanitary products, hygiene items or baby care supplies. Pads and supplies will be sourced through the supplier partnerships we are building, your products can be among the first to reach families.

Financial sponsorship

Sponsor a programme cycle, a distribution drive or a workshop series. Every rand will be documented, and every outcome reported back to you.

Community events

Help us co-host our first dignified, community-run distribution events in Makhaza — from venue and logistics support to standing alongside us on the day.

Health education

Healthcare providers and educators: help facilitate workshops on menstrual health, personal hygiene, maternal and infant care; delivered in home languages.

Employee volunteering

Bring your team to one of our planned quarterly drives. Pack assembly, distribution and event support will make for purposeful, hands-on staff engagement.

Strategic collaborations

Schools, NGOs and government institutions: let’s align programmes, share networks and reach the families most left behind — together.

Recognition and reporting. All sponsors and partners are formally acknowledged in all Foundation communication materials, and receive documented outcome reports at the end of each programme cycle — attendance registers, pack count records and photographic evidence included.

Start the conversation

Tell us who you are and how you would like to work together — there is no minimum size for a partnership, and no idea too early to discuss. We shape every collaboration around your goals and the community’s needs.

  • We respond to every enquiry personally, via email.
  • Together we shape a collaboration that fits your organisation.
  • You receive formal acknowledgement and outcome reports each cycle.

Prefer to talk first? Reach us at MalasheFoundation@proton.me or +27 76 384 3576.

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Partnership in the spirit of Ubuntu — organisations and community, building dignity side by side.

Partnership enquiry

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We are excited to explore how we can build dignity together — we respond to all partnership enquiries personally, via email. Your email app has opened with your message — press send to complete your submission.

Partners & Sponsors

Our founding sponsor

We are proud to begin this journey with Shoprite at our side — and there is room beside them for organisations that share our belief that dignity is a right.

Dignity is a Right, Not a Privilege

However You Give,
You Build Dignity

A pledge, an afternoon of your time, a partnership — each one helps girls stay in school, keeps families healthy and welcomes new mothers with care. See where your contribution goes, or start a conversation with us today.