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Apr 8, 2025 11 tweets 2 min read Read on X
CM HOMELESS SOLUTIONS staff were funded by a US donor whose entity that was funded by USAID. We have subsequently.14 people including myself were not paid or only paid a very small portion of our salaries for April.
Cm Homeless Solutions was set up with a promise to donors and funders that donations will be used 100% for beneficiaries and so offers no solution to our current crisis.
Of the 14 staff members, 9 are in dire straits, collectively requiring R4900 as soon as possible for essentials especially where children are involved. We urge you to please donate what you can to assist these individuals who daily work to help others.
Today, they need your help.
please contribute whatever you can to:
CFFDAC MESQUITA
TYMEBANK 678910
ACC: 9560 2546 753
REF: CM HOMELESS SOLUTIONS STAFF ASSISTANCE
Thank you
Carlos
NB! If there is a business/private individual or two who can assist us with the R4900 required as a personal loan to myself, I am prepared to, in my personal capacity, sign an acknowledgement of debt and pay back this amount on the 15th of April, when my salary is paid.
Although every single one of these 9 requests that make up the assistance package of R4900 ARE VIATALLY IMPORTANT,there is an amount of R1200 that it is absolutely crucial we raise today.This pertains to the well being of a special needs child in the family as well as their home
This is for a lady I have many times mentioned in my posts, Chantelle, who is always involved in helping the young ladies we help off the streets or in trafficking situations. Chantelle has on numerous occassions moved in with the girls we have rescued and does so willingly.
@BryanTorien the public knew that their donations went 100% to beneficiaries, because I know most including myself hate the fact that with most big NGO'S the beneficiaries are the ones fighting for that last teet to suckle on. The bulk goes on staff , grand offices and all sorts of other
@BryanTorien nonsense. But we have to survive, so I put out a proposal explaining precisely this situation and asking of those prospective donors merely staff salary funding. The at least the donor knows what he/she is funding. I mean the work needs to get done and we have to live.
@BryanTorien Our salaries are all but extravagant. Hence the situation we are in. We don't earn enough to survive a month without pay and that is what happened with us now. But by the grace of GOD, my wish has come true and the new funder for salaries as of April is South African. I 100%
@BryanTorien believe South Africans need to support and fund South African organisations that do good work in South Africa. And so with the bad, good came. But we can chat more over crab curry. Love C

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Feb 7
Please help us get this young girl, caught unwillingly in a prostitution ring in Boston, Bellville get back home to her granny tomorrow afternoon. Please donate what you can towards the R485 still required. Thank you. Carlos Image
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We have safely and successfully removed the young girl from the house in Boston and she will be staying with one of our volunteer social workers until we can get her on the bus tomorrow. We are covering the cost of the social worker to accompany her as she is underage.
Please help us by donating towards the R485 we still require to purchase her ticket back home to her grandmother. Please donate what you can to:
CM HOMELESS SOLUTIONS. TYMEBANK 678910.
ACC: 5300 1069 559 REF: BOSTON RESCUE
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Jan 9
SPECIAL UPDATE.

So much to update on, yet so little time today, as we try to handle a crisis for a disabled couple, their 4 year old son and their two dogs.
But first, I have to thank a regular donor, who has not only donated the R700 we required to paydocs.google.com/document/d/1B-…
our rental for the Rehab Recovery Rooms in full but has also donated almost half of what we require to accommodate the couple I mentioned above.

We were alerted to a situation in Bellville’s notorious “KAMP” adjacent to the Bellville station and where the
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This KAMP, which I have reported on before, is controlled by the criminal element and gangsters.
These people prey on the already desperate. They will “allow” people like the disabled couple we are referring to to build a hokkie on these
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Aug 2, 2025
We have as yet received no donations towards either the R870 we urgently require to purchase the drug tests and methadone packs for the 15 new intakes at the newly extended Rehab Recovery Rooms in Woodstock, (This is an essential for all new intakes) or towards the R600.00
required to get 4 of the guys that moved from the Rehab Recovery Rooms after their 3 month stint and have been offered jobs on our renewing their PSIRA certifications. This is essential for their new journey of independence. Please donate what you can and share.
Please donate what you can and share. 3 donations of R500, 5 donations of R300 or one donation of R1470 will get us there, even 15 donations of R100!
Please donate to: CM HOMELESS SOLUTIONS TYMEBANK 678910
ACC: 5300 1069 559
REFG: RRR-PSIRA-MEDICAL
Thank you, Carlos
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Aug 2, 2025
Yesterday was a VERY LONG but one of the most rewarding for me personally. We were able to move 9 residents at our Woodstock Rehab Recovery Rooms into independent accommodation after they had successfully completed their three months. Even more exciting was the fact that 2 of Image
the 9 leave the Rehab Recovery Rooms already employed and 4 leave with the promise of employment by our one security company partner in accommodating those we accommodate. All we need is to renew their PSIRA certifications. And here we are asking you to please assist us. Image
We need R150 each in order to do this for Basil, Jonathan, Emile and Bongani. There have never been four more deserving individuals, taking into account that 6 months ago they all entered a rehab program as a 3 month sentence imposed on them by the Magistrates Court in Image
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Jul 20, 2025
We again need some assistance from you this morning. I mentioned yesterday that we would be attempting the rescue of a young girl caught in a vice and drugs scam in Cape town.
The police did not view it as having been against her will as she willingly responded to their ad and accepted the ticket to Cape town. The ad however mentions nothing about prostitution and if she was willing, why would she have asked for assistance from us?
A 16 year old desperate for a better life after her mom's passing taking a chance on an ad that guaranteed work in the "beauty and modelling industry in Cape town"... and what did she get 8 months of sheer hell. Living in a dump with 16 other girls where she was put on drugs and
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Jun 6, 2025
Good morning. Firstly, thank you to the donors that have supported our call for donations to get our Homeless Emergency Fund to R30 000 by this afternoon to R30 000. If we manage this milestone, we will receive an EXTRA R50 000 from three donors. We are R2800 short.
We only need 14 donors to donate R200 each. It has to reflect in our HEF GOAL ACCOUNT by no later than 16h00 this afternoon. So, donations made will have to be made for immediate payment in order to reflect. I cannot begin to tell you how important this windfall of R50 000 will
be towards our commitment to helping as many people living on the streets and in crisis during our Winter Warmers campaign this month and in July. We managed to accommodate over 50 individuals last month and I guarantee you the need is so much greater. We will report on every
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