Charity News

September 15, 2025

Global Road Safety Partnership

Global partnership for Road safety conference was attended by SARCS CEO, Mr Derick Naidoo, Dr Michael Charles from IFRC, the DG of transport and Dr Pieter Venter. This conference was held to halve road deaths and injuries by 2020.
September 15, 2025

Land Rover’s Hope Boxes return for Red Cross

Pretoria, 29 May 2017 – In 2016 Land Rover collected 14 326 essential items in its “Hope Boxes”, with the deliveries going to Red Cross charities around South Africa. This year, as part of its ongoing work for the Hope Crosses Any Terrain programme, Land Rover will again roll out…
September 15, 2025

South African Red Cross Society Blanket Drive

East Rand, 7 June 2017. The South African Red Cross Society (SARCS) being a humanitarian organization whose mandate is to alleviate suffering wherever it may be, continues to celebrate its strength and reach and the contribution of our staff and volunteers through the theme “Everywhere for everyone” which is the theme…
September 15, 2025

Red Cross Youth Day

Statistics show that drug abuse is on the rise particularly among the youth in South Africa, the average age of drug dependence in South Africa is 12 years old and the age group is dropping (Africa Check). Drug abuse remains a growing problem in South Africa with over 15% of…

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The South African Red Cross Society is a member organization of the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), which is the largest volunteer driven organization on earth. The Red Cross Society has 100 million members and a presence in 189 countries.