Its a sad state of affairs that not enough people are fighting the good fight, and we'd like to try and change that.

About 2 years ago we thought about starting a project to buy blankets for winter to give to homeless people in conjunction with the Operation Snowball project, however our timing was always wrong and we could never get it off the ground properely.

So we have decided to start running 2 projects a year.

One will start in January, this is for Winter.

It will allow us to save and garner donations for 6 months before Winter kicks in.

The other project will start in June which will be to collect food for Christmas to give to the homeless and the poor at Christmas time.

Starting these 2 projects at 2 different times will help us prepare for the next one.

As of January, Kinetiq will also start putting aside a portion of our proceeds made from Advertising and other earnings from our various sites to buy blankets.

We will put up a counter and as we buy a blanket we'll add it to the counter so that everyone can track and see how many blankets we have bought and come June, we'll take the entire lot and donate it to Operation Snowball.

We hope to have a mountain of blankets by June and invite all the members of this site to try and assist in helping contribute to a great cause.

We'll accept donations directly for the purchasing of blankets and will invite everyone who donated to take a photo with us on a FAT MOUNTAIN of Blankets!!

We'll be putting up banking details shortly and would appreciate even a few bucks, if you can't donate money and would like to donate a blanket instead, I would be more than willing to pick up in and around JHB.

So far we have 5 blankets that have been donated by my mother and my sister.

Speak to your families and ask them if they have any blankets lying around that they are not using and would like to contribute to a worthy cause!

You could save a life.

Please note that we cannot accept anything other than blankets or monetary donations, getting into clothes and food for winter will shift our focus.

Thanks and happy holidays folks!

Can you PM me the banking details. Also could you let us know the cost of the blankets? May twist my arm to donate more if I know the exact cost. I prefer to know I contributed a whole blanket rather than half a blanket.

Also, can you make it so that we (the members) can add the total blanket count to our signatures? If you get what I mean...

Can we not donate pillows?

while pillows may be a good idea, we are driving for blankets only.

Well, in order to get more blankets we were looking at purchasing the ones from PEP or somewhere that cost around R30 - R40

To add the blankets to your sig may take a bit of work, but I am sure if we ask Ian nicely he may be able to come up with something, although I doubt it will be ready until Jan as he is going away.

I cant give you the bank details just yet, Ian will organise us a setcom page in the next few days so that donations can be made with credit cards.

Excellent. No hurry for the sig thing. Was just an idea while I was thinking... I will be sure to send through a donation once everything is ready.

Rush I'll donate between 5% and 10% of all the profit I make off kiefpiet & other sites at the end of May towards buying blankets.

That is a smart idea. I am wanting to make myself a site, just need to remember how to . Once I have done that I will need some help with the google ads etc... whatever I can make I will also donate a percentage of. This could take a while to get up and running though.

I would definitely also contribute something.
Is this Project Snowball an existing aid organisation?

carrots yes

I think its run by 5fm