BABS- Be A Blessing Society

07/11/2025

🌟 BABS Charity Drive – Supporting Angels Baby Sanctuary 🌟

Happy Friday, everyone!

I’m so excited to share details of our final outreach for the year! 💖

Angels Baby Sanctuary, based in La Rochelle, Johannesburg, is an incredible organisation devoted to caring for abandoned, orphaned, sick, and abused babies who find a home in their care.

They truly go above and beyond to:
✨ Nurture each baby with love, warmth, and attention
✨ Provide medical and educational support for every little one
✨ Create a safe, loving, homely environment
✨ Care for the children until they’re adopted — or into adulthood if adoption isn’t possible

💫 What’s happening:
BABS will be visiting Angels on Saturday, 6 December 2025!
We’ll be delivering your generous contributions, serving lunch to the children and caregivers, and — as always — spreading love, joy, and smiles all around!

(Their full needs list will be shared next week.)

🎶 Special bonus!
Phoenix Big Band SA will be hosting a Christmas Concert on Saturday, 22 November, with proceeds going towards the Angels’ needs list.

If you’d like to donate, attend the concert, or join us for the visit on 6 December — please reach out!

Let’s wrap up BABS 2025 with a huge blessing for this wonderful sanctuary and the precious little lives they care for. 💕

More details coming soon.

Stay blessed — and keep being a blessing,
V
Be A Blessing Society

09/09/2025

🌟 BABS Charity Drive – Supporting Frederic Place, Home for the Aged 🌟

Hi Team,
Happy Spring! 🌸 I hope you’re feeling abundantly blessed.

For our next charity drive, we’re honoured to return to Frederic Place in Coronationville — a sanctuary of compassion that has provided safe, dignified care for nearly 50 years. Supported by the Society of St Vincent de Paul, Frederic Place is home to 85 elderly residents, including 20 in frail care. Here, every person is known, loved, and valued. Residents receive nourishing meals, attentive nursing, and daily companionship — but they rely heavily on community support to meet their needs.

📅 Event Details
Date: Sunday, 28 September 2025
Time: 11:00 AM
Place: Frederic Place, 28 Riversdale St, Coronationville

💛 What we’ll do:
We’ll spend time with residents and staff, deliver collected donations, and most importantly — share love, warmth, and encouragement.

🎶 Bonus: Phoenix Big Band will be hosting a special benefit concert this Sunday afternoon in aid of Frederic Place. The band will also join us on 28th September to hand over their contribution.

🥫 How You Can Help

Large items needed
• Industrial deep fryer
• Industrial food processor
• Large microwave
• Automatic washing machine
Groceries
• Household groceries
• Sugar, mielie meal, flour, rice
• Tea bags, tin food, long-life milk, salt
• Soup packets, peanut butter, jam, eggs
• 1kg tubs butter, macaroni, spaghetti, lentils
Toiletries
• Face soap, body lotion, roll-on, Vaseline
• Toothpaste, shavers

✨ Ways to get involved:
• Donate goods or contribute toward the needs list
• Support the Phoenix Big Band concert
• Join us on 28th September to share love with residents

Thank you for being the heart of BABS — your continued generosity makes moments of joy possible for those who need it most. Let’s make this visit a beautiful blessing together!

Stay warm and blessed,
V
Be A Blessing Society

29/07/2025

🌟 BABS Charity Drive – Supporting Unchain Our Children 🌟

What an incredibly blessed Sunday it was!❤️

Thanks to the generosity of Phoenix Big Band (R2700) and BABS (R2400), we were able to deliver over R5000 worth of food to the Unchain Crisis Centre in Pretoria.

We were also joined by some of the wonderful students from Maragon Mooikloof, who not only helped serve lunch to hundreds but, more importantly, shared love and hope through their meaningful interactions with everyone there.

A massive thank you to:
• Phoenix Big Band and their supporters
• BABS members
• Maragon Mooikloof
• And the incredible Unchain Our Children team

Your contributions are making a real difference. 💛

We’ll definitely be visiting this special place again. I’ll share some precious moments , but in the meantime, do check out the beautiful article they published:

🔗 https://www.unchainourchildren.org.za/post/nourishing-hope-community-unites-to-support-danville-s-hungry

Until the next outreach — stay warm and blessed. 😊

Much love,
Venesh
Be A Blessing Society

On Sunday, July 27, 2025, Geseende Hande in Danville, Pretoria, hosted a heartwarming community support event, uniting volunteers, donors, and residents. Venesh Ramsammy, representing The Phoenix Big Band donated thousands of rands worth of dry food, ensuring nutritious meals for those in need.As an...