Gaffoor Home & Charity

16/03/2026

If you see Naziem selling his candy floss, do please support 🙏

16/02/2026

This weekend we visited a home of a group of children who's father was arrested.

They had been alone all weekend. They used the wifi from a clinic to message us and ask if we can find their mother who was missing as usual. To hear a 9 year old boy to say "they take my daddy away and we have no food for school tomorrow" and step up to take charge of the home shows us how quickly our children have to "grow up" on the Cape flats.

At 9 years old you're now responsible for your siblings and their schooling. You're in charge of this little shack where strange adults keep passing through. Child headed homes are becoming a norm with most of these children wanting a different life from the ones their parents chose.

Right now they're at school focusing on whatever art's & crafts whilst their father is in jail and their mother wandering, they could return back home to nothing and continue this with no help. Thankfully their school has stepped in and arranged a social worker, who now has to place 4 siblings in a safe place.

Our children didn't choose the drugs or the gangs, their parents did. Now they suffer the consequences. How many children at the school of our kids are alone at home? How many kids had to prepare and feed themselves for their own education this morning.

The rate of children's headed homes are increasing dramatically so check in on your neighbors, your friends and especially your family in Ubuntu and make this family, of compassion, bigger..

05/02/2026

Join us for the month of Ramadan as we visit and share iftaar with an orphanage every night🙌 this year we will be spending time with the smaller cluster and foster homes across Cape Town

Share your 📿zakah, fitrah, fidyah & sadaqah with an orphanages & towards the development of an orphaned child.

100% of funds collected will be distributed among orphanages and children in need towards their food, education, health and livelihood

Please join us and meet these homes and wonderful children to earn the most of Ramadan this year. Come and meet the children 🙌🏡

We are reaching out to any businesses, food🥙 vendors and takeaways to consider donating your delicious food towards our children and sharing the joy👐

Contact us at 0837962142 to arrange a dinner, donation or to join us at an orphanage. Some dates WILL CHANGE to accommodate more homes and maximize visits for the orphanages

03/02/2026

This was a dark dark morning for a poor old mom

We get a call from "concerned" neighbors, the crazy aunty is attacking the children in the street with boiling water. So we enter the home of a frail, soft spoken elderly woman and quickly the pieces of a rotten puzzle is put together

A frail old lady, covered in bruises, struggling with a massive set of keys like opening up a jail. She takes us through a small home to her dimly lit room and asks if we're going to take her away. We could see her bones shaking and the blue marks on her skinny legs 💔

She is living in fear of her neighbors son who breaks in, swears at her and throws stones through her windows. The "concerned" neighbors are worried because their son had shoved her to the ground over a parked car and were clearly afraid that she had been hurt. She had indeed been hurt.

Speaking to a few friends in the road, we find out that the kind old lady has been constantly harassed by her neighbors who's kids are on drugs and involved with gangsters. They break in, they steal, they destroy her property, they play loud music all day, they toss bottles and trash into her front yard, they've broken in to defecate in her home, they've damaged water pipes and electrical wires leaving her with minimal resources. They've attacked and beaten her with sticks, bottles and bricks.

These neighbors were clearly worried she'd go make a case this morning so they called us trying to spin a story and make it look like she is the wicked witch of the streets..

We were totally disgusted & infuriated by the audacity of these people who constantly abuse and tried to lie about their abuse counting themselves as victims. How does an entire family take joy from the abuse of a senior. A lone woman is just trying to live in peace. What kind of community will we be if we don't protect our elderly or if we don't stand up to the bullies in our communities. These neighbors are problems for many of the houses because of their gang and drug relations, inviting all forms of chaos most days.

This is THE MOTHER city but look at how our old mum's are being treated.. our work is made evident by how many children can live safely and how many elderly can retire in peace & security. We have to look after our young, old & especially our parents who are left alone.

We took her to the clinic while another member went to the police station and a department social worker was contacted.. we are slightly relieved to know she's in caring hands but deeply disturbed knowing the kind of abuse a small old lady has been suffering for years at the hands of her criminal neighbors 💔

Why are people so cruel to the weak.. the valor & esteem of a society is in how well they care for they children & elderly. We work to create safer spaces & homes for our people.

We remember Ubuntu for our people. Ubuntu for our old and Ubuntu for our young.

27/01/2026

❕️An urgent appeal for the Heideveld Place of Safety in Hester Court for groceries & electricity need
We have a drop off location at Lansdowne or you may go directly to 34 Hester Court to Mrs Booysen.

This home provides a safe space for children who have suffered from violence and is crucial in our fight against child abuse. This also serves as a reminder to check up on your neighborhood child homes

Standard Bank
Account: 20 026 189 4
Gaffoor F Charity
Reference - Heideveld home

25/01/2026

Today was a nightmare for this little soul 💔

We received an early call informing us of a young boy begging at the Lansdowne intersection. With tattered clothing, toothpicks for legs and visibly dirty, it was easy to spot him. No less than 6 years old. He walked from Hanover Park, avoided stray dogs to spend his Sunday begging. His little head barely able to reach a car window.

What shocked us were his parents... how a 5 year old understands that he's unwanted by both his mother and father crippled our hearts.

A small 2-bedroom house. His mum lives with her mum-in-law in one room. His father stayed with his girlfriend in the other. They don't talk. There's no room for their son, who switches spots on the floor depending on the mood of the house.

The kitchen is bone-dry. Not even a crumb for the roaches. He's being fed 50cent chips and tap water, when the water is on.

It hurt when his parents said "can't you take him by you then". They've been planning to separate and move into their own houses then he can choose who to live with.. this has been happening for the past year.

On our way to a children's safe home, he was actually excited. The poor soul realised that being alone or with strangers is better than being with parents who resented you. A 5 year old isn't supposed to understand resentment or abandonment but this boy clearly knew.

A child is unfed & unclean because parents who won't invest into each other. The one who suffers is the boy. This is unfortunately a common issue in the Cape flats. Children are left abandoned because parents hate each other. They did not ask to be born into your chaos but they bare the full brunt of it.. it's unfair.

We need adults to be better. Simple.

This boy will be cared for because we left him with an amazing house mother❤️ but how will he grow up or act out knowing his parents didn't want him.. what kind of schooling, what kind of development, what kind of love and what kind of parent will this child endeavor towards, with the painful past in his heart..

Our children in Africa deserve better. We were raised in MOTHER AFRICA. Let's raise our future in it too..

24/01/2026

(UPDATED) We received a generous full donation for Monday's lunch now please do join us to meet the home and the children 🙌 come and see and spend time with the homes we're helping

Thank you to our anonymous donor❤️🙌

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help us raise R2,500 to spoil a new orphanage in Manenberg currently trying to register. We're hoping to take much needed stationery ✏️ a delicious lunch with a wonderful gift for 18 orphaned children at the St Jones home in Manenberg.

Contact us at 0837962142 if you'd like to donate anything towards this day or join us on Monday the 24th and meet the children and home 🙌

Standard Bank
Account number: 20 026 189 4
Gaffoor F Charity
Reference - Jones home

24/01/2026

Our hearts are broken by the amount of children's deaths. At the hands of selfish, greedy and careless adults. Our children see their schools peers at more funerals than days of school. We've been to 4 children's funerals this year and one baby... It never gets easy.

January cannot be a bloody prequel to the rest of our year. Our safety is in each others hands. If you want your child to be safe, we must endeavor to make all children safe. We don't need money, shares or likes to prevent death, we need to be present and intelligent

22 children SHOULD NOT be stuffed in a van to school
4 year olds SHOULD NOT be walking to the shop for ci******es
10 year olds SHOULD NOT be "chommies" with 19-20 years olds

Criminals who kill children and dump babies SHOULD NOT be protected by their communities. Gangsters won't look out for you and they don't care about you. We SHOULD NOT house and hide gun carriers.

Our children are our future. What kind of future will we have if we don't fight for them. Our youth deserves our efforts and our future deserves our investment..

22/01/2026

Today we visited Beitul Ansaar children's home. One of the few homes that takes in newborn babies. They mainly care for babies but they have children up until the age of 6 years old so please go visit them if you want to make a difference for the defenseless babies unfairly tossed away...

A few days ago someone found another baby dumped & dead. That child could have been loved and cared for by the amazing caregivers and these baby saving sanctuaries like Beitul Ansaar, Hannah's Place of Safety both located in Mitchell's Plain.

Too many children have died this year. Reach out to these organizations that focus of child rescue and hear how complicated their work is and how you can support 🙌

We dropped off some brand new babies clothes and accessories as well as good quality toys courtesy of Zaakirah Mohamed and Taking Care of Business. Their assistance and support has reached many homes & children and we're truly grateful

22/01/2026

The Red Cross Children's Hospital saved our child's life and they continue to save our children. The Children's Hospital Trust takes care of 100s of children daily please check their page and donate towards their children and their efforts to saving children from all across South Africa & further 🙌🕊

Thanks to Zaakirah Mohamed family and friends for these beautiful gifts 🎁 the children will love them 🙏❤️

22/01/2026

Our hearts are broken..Ashtin was such a kind, well mannered, talented and jolly young boy💔
After leaving the barber, shooters targeted someone standing close to Ashtin hitting him in the crossfire...killing him instantly.. our poor boy was going to be a football star.. who do we cry to.. who hears us when our children are killed

Mayb your soul rest in peace Ashtin🙌🕊🙏 we will miss you and think of you. May your family find peace through Grace..

We seek justice for our children and all the children who suffer

22/01/2026

More school would be so much better

Build a high school in Lost City Tafelsig Mitchells Plain