For 25 years, Sparrow Ministries has been a pillar of the community, assisting those who need it most. It is an interdenominational organisation that was established at the start of the HIV/ Aids crisis by registered professional nurse Reverend Doctor Corine McClintock.
“We have a 25-year record of transparency, integrity and compassion, and now we need the community to help us reach our goals and fulfill our vision of caring for the poor, destitute mothers and children. Our ministry is a certified non-profit and non-government organisation, and companies who donate to us will receive a Sars-approved Section 18A certificate,” said Corine.
“As a 27-year-old NGO, we get less and less help, because of the change in corporate social investment policies, and we have to be very creative to get assistance or we will close down. We have 20 marginalised, vulnerable and destitute mothers and 56 children, including 35 young adults over the age of 18, who were affected by HIV at birth through no fault of their own. They are still at school at this age due to both their illness and their medication which resulted in them being held back from starting school at age six. We also do not receive any government financial assistance for them.”
The ministry has come a long way from its humble and tough beginnings in 1992 when they lost five to seven children per week. Since the introduction of medication, just over 11 years later, only 2 children have died.
Some of the ministry’s needs include children’s and toddlers’ winter clothing, sleepwear, school lunchboxes and juice bottles, toy boxes for toys and clothing, shoes, educational and stimulation toys for babies, wall plugs, lightswitches, sports equipment and transport and travel costs. For more information, contact 011 472 6628.
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