To commemorate this magnificent achievement, for the past three years as part of the project\u2019s March To A Million, private donations have been accruing with a view to making a significant difference to the impoverished communities in which Santa Shoebox beneficiary children live.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/santashoebox.org.za\/legacy-2\/<\/p>
What better time than right now, in the throes of Covid-19, to alleviate suffering and uplift lives in the hardest-hit areas of South Africa.<\/p>\n
With this in mind, Santa Shoebox founder Iren\u00e9 Pieters has extended project funding to organisations doing meaningful work in line with UN Sustainability Development Goals.<\/p>\n
Iren\u00e9 said, \u201cSanta Shoebox goes to great lengths to find and serve rural children, who receive aid from neither government nor large NPOs.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring these uncertain times, the children and their families suffer the same devastating effects as those living in urban parts of the country, with the impact worsening already dire circumstances.<\/p>\n
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