Blog
Charity shop shelves are emptying fast!!!!
Our charity shop shelves are emptying fast!!!! We rely on donated stock to keep our customers happy. Please contact us if you have any goods to donate. Thank you for your support. We are making access to pre-loved goods easier for the valley community.
Merry Christmas from the Valley Trust
Message from our director As we come to the end of the year, we can only look back over the past year with gratitude. After losing a significant amount of funding and being forced to retrench a large number of staff in late 2020, things looked bleak indeed. We faced...
MEET MPHIWE KHUMALO
Hi I'm very happy to get this opportunity. I would like to introduce myself first. I am Simphiwe Khumalo 36 years old, from Kwanyuswa located in the Valley of 1000 hills. I grew up in a very disadvantaged family but through...
DIRECTOR’S BUSINESS BREAKFAST
WHAT DO YOU NEED? WE HAVE A SOLUTION!
The Valley Trust property is a beautiful space and we have recently completed the revamp of our hostel-style 30 bed accommodation.If you are looking for a team building time, conference or school tour accommodation, we have a solution for you at R250 pp per night. Our...
FOOD DONATION FROM THE SHARKS
We had the amazing opportunity to partner with The Sharks - Hands of Hope campaign which was launched to assist in rebuilding the province after the recent civil unrest .Thank you to SA Harvest, East Coast Radio, FNB who all contributed and Richden’s SPAR who donated...
THANK YOU TO OUR PARTNERS FOR DONATING TO COMMUNITIES WHO NEED IT MOST
The Valley Trust is proud to be a recipient of a donation of plastic household items and educational toys from Rand Plastics. These items will be used in our project households as well as ECD centres that need resources.We also received paint for the creche we were...
DAY OUT DISTRIBUTING CARE PACKS AND EMERGENCY FOOD PARCELS
Last month we spent two days in the valley visiting homes of the children in our Khula Kahle Mntwana (Grow Well Child) Project. Thanks to money raised rom our Fig Tree Breakfast we were able to create ‘Care Packs’ with warm winter clothes and educational toys.The...
WE WILL RISE TOGETHER!!!
A letter to the community of Qadi/Nyuswa - Written on 27th July 2021 It was with a mix of disbelief, disappointment and anger that we witnessed the destruction and looting of local businesses in our community of Qadi/Nyuswa, including hardware stores and spaza shops,...
HALLEY STOTT – Founder of The Valley Trust
As a young doctor working in hospitals in the Durban area, Halley Harwin Stott was deeply concerned to see how patients from the rural areas would come into hospital suffering from TB and other preventable diseases. They would return home only to be readmitted to...