News Reports
09/10/2020
Solidarity Behavioral Response Report |Red Cross Children’s Hospital (Rx Radio) Campaign
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. As part of our efforts to mobilise South Africans, we partnered with the Red Cross' Rx station to tell the story of the virus from a child's perspective. Rx is the first radio station in the world run by children and is broadcast from within a hospital. For more details, please take a moment and read through a summary of the Rx Campaign that was run by children for children.
02/10/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | Testing Efforts Interim Report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Detect’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by supplying testing kits and through scaling up testing capacity.
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our interim report on the upscaling of testing capacity and supply of testing kits.
02/10/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | National Ventilator Production (Locally Manufactured ventilators) Interim Report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Care’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by ensuring a supply of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) ventilators.
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our interim report on the production of the locally manufactured ventilators.
01/10/2020
Solidarity Fund Humanitarian Response | The Food Voucher Relief Programme Interim Report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to Covid-19. We want to thank you for all of your contributions, helping us help others. Our food voucher relief programme aims to reach 135,000 beneficiaries who will each receive once-off food vouchers to the value of R700. We continue to work with our partners to bring dignity to those who are in need and are impacted by this pandemic. For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our Food Voucher Relief Programme Interim Report.
16/09/2020
The Creation and the Impact of the Citizens in Solidarity Campaign
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. For more details on our efforts on mobilising South Africans, please take a moment and read through a summary of the Citizens in Solidarity Campaign.
The Campaign had two aspects namely the conceptualization and the impact of the campaign. The conceptualization part maps out how the campaign unfolded and managed to build the solidarity brand within 17 days. The Implementation part maps out how the campaign has managed to reach at least 28 million South Africans through various platforms to date, the bulk of which come from radio and TV campaigns.
15/09/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | PPE for frontline Community Care Workers
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Care’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by ensuring a supply of personal protective equipment (PPE).
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our report on PPE for the frontline Community Care Workers.
13/07/2020
Solidarity Fund Health Response Report | PPE for the Public Health System
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to the COVID-19. A key objective of the Fund’s healthcare mandate is the ‘Care’ effort to support national efforts to augment the safety and efficacy of our medical response by ensuring a supply of personal protective equipment (PPE).
For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our report.
05/06/2020
Solidarity Fund food relief programme summary report
The Solidarity Fund has a clear mandate to support the national health response, contribute to humanitarian relief efforts and mobilise South Africans to drive a united response to Covid-19. We want to thank you for all of your contributions, helping us help others. Our food relief efforts have reached in excess of 280 000 households and we continue to work with our partners to bring dignity to those who are in need and are impacted by this pandemic. For more details on our efforts, please take a moment and read through our Food Relief Programme Summary Report.
