Event Charities

The Dis-Chem Foundation has pledged to match all voluntary additional donations from participants to either of the charities below, over and above their entry fee for the 2027 event.

Your donation, doubled

Add a voluntary donation to your entry and the Dis-Chem Foundation matches it, rand for rand. Every cent goes to the two charities we run for.

Children’s medical & palliative care

Lambano Sanctuary

Founded in 2001, Lambano Sanctuary is a patient and family centred medical step-down facility for children and adolescents who have been referred from hospitals and other facilities.

Since 2001, Lambano Sanctuary NGO has provided a loving permanent home to over 30 children in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, achieving an 85% rehabilitation success rate in their medical recovery. This inspired the move from children’s homes to children’s medical and palliative care. From 2009 to February 2025, Lambano delivered more than 50,000 medical and palliative care interventions in the little lives of children with life-limiting and life-threatening illnesses.

Now, through the help of an angel donor, Lambano has built South Africa’s first dedicated children’s sub-acute facility, specialising in step-down medical and rehabilitative care.

Facilities

Medical & palliative step-down
36 Senator Road, Germiston

Children’s sub-acute facility
146 Langerman Drive, Kensington South

Contact

Partnerships: Quinique Jagers
Fundraising@lambano.org.za
Cell: 074 929 7237
Tel: 011 622 6202
Socials: @lambanosanctuary

Registration

Lambano Sanctuary NPC
NPO 014–535
PBO 18/11/13/2003
36 Senator Road, Malvern East, 1401

Visit lambano.org.za

Animal welfare & outreach

Namaqua Dog & Donkey Foundation

Outreach work focusing on the sterilisation, vaccination and on-site treatment of animals in informal settlements on the East Rand.

The main aim of the Namaqua Dog & Donkey Foundation is the sterilisation of disadvantaged domestic animals in and around Gauteng, as well as in poor communities in the Northern Cape area. We believe that by doing this, we alleviate the suffering, disease and death of unwanted litters.

The organisation sterilised 487 animals during 2025, and also funded an outreach programme to Noupoort for an education and treatment programme for 45 horses.

Contact

Reinette Smith
smithreinette@gmail.com
Cell: 076 714 5460

Registration

Namaqua Dog & Donkey Foundation
NPO Number: 49398

Ways to help

Monetary donations, pet food (dry and tinned), blankets and pet beds, kennels, pet bowls, and bric-a-brac, books or clothing for the shop.