Charitable donations made by the District Grand Lodge of South Africa North Freemasons

Charitable donations made by the District Grand Lodge of South Africa, North

ANNUAL BANQUET 2010

At the annual banquet at the Country Club Johannesburg on Saturday 20th February 2010 in South Africa, the RW District Grand Master Gerald Roland Fotinakis presented a cheque to Childline for R1 million.

ANNUAL BANQUET 2009

At the annual banquet at The Country Club Johannesburg on Saturday 7 March 2009 in South Africa, the RW District Grand Master Gerald Roland Fotinakis said that with today's rapidly changing society, Freemasonry was more relevant than at any other time.

A presentation was made to Woodside Sanctuary of R 1 000 000 and a further amount of
R 200 000 was handed over to Forest Town School.

Woodside Sanctuary

Woodside is committed to excellence in holistic care and stimulation for the profoundly disabled.

Woodside Sanctuary provides a haven for abused and handicapped children. It provides round-the-clock residential care for children with severe mental and physical handicaps. Children from all South Africa are accepted, from birth, onwards.

Forest Town
Established in 1948, thousands of disabled children, adults and caregivers have benefited from pioneering and innovative educational, training and treatment programmes at Forest Town School.
The school continues this legacy today, offering crucial and multi-facetted aspects of service to the disabled community, both directly and indirectly.

Donations of R17 million have been made by The District of South Africa, North and its lodges over the past fifteen years:
The Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund	R 750 000
The Avril Elizabeth Home for the Mentally Handicapped	R 350 000
S A Guide Dogs for the Blind	R 300 000
St. Vincent's School for the Deaf	R 300 000
S A Cancer Research	R 250 000
S A Red Cross for Flood Disaster Relief	R 100 000
Red Cross Children's Hospital	R 200 000
Childline	R1 000 000
Reach for a Dream	R1 000 000
Reach for Recovery - Breast Cancer	R1 000 000
CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation	R1 000 000
Headway - Gauteng	R1 000 000
Woodside Sanctuary	R1 000 000
Forest Town School	R 200 000
Childline	R1 000 000

Minor Donations to non-masonic charities	R4 519 000
Donations to Masonic charities	R2 868 000
In addition to the above approximately R600 000 is given annually, from the Inter-Constitutional Masonic Charity, in grants to aged and indigent Freemasons or their dependants and towards bursaries.

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