In Action | Giving A Hand-up

In Action | Giving A Hand-up

According to The Big Issue “The most important needs of marginalised adults are employment and dignity”. The Kite Festival and Muizenberg Improvement District are playing a successful part in fulfilling this need and it’s working well for everyone. Holding such a big...
MID Joint Operation | Putting Names to Faces

MID Joint Operation | Putting Names to Faces

On Wednesday 25 January Muizenberg’s Improvement District joined forces with the City and the Department of Social Development to conduct a joint field operation to identify street people and street children in our area. The team of 16 consisted of Marion Thomas (MID...

Give Responsibly – Make A Real Difference

Give Responsibly, and make a real difference by giving a hand up and not a hand out. One frequently reads messages from the City and various NGO’s about not giving money or goods directly to homeless or street people/children. But this approach can be hard to...
Kite Festival Clean-Up

Kite Festival Clean-Up

Cape Mental Health held their 20th Cape Town International Kite Festival on 1st and 2nd November and kindly accepted the MID offer to use our homeless to support the cleaning exercise. At 07h30, on the morning of the 1st November, a team of 10 gathered at the Atlantic...