The Maletsatsi Foundation launches a 5-act challenge for Mandela Day

Africa Melane speaks to The Maletsatsi Foundation about their call to action for Mandela Day on the 18th of July. Have a listen to five powerful ways you can get involved.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to your new day. This is early Breakfast with
Africa Milanti. This Friday marks National Mandela Day. Actually it's
International Mandala Day perhaps, but on Monday. On Friday rather,
you'll be asked to set aside sixty seven minutes off
your day to realize a difference to the people of

(00:20):
South Africa and more generally humanity this week, at around
this time every weekday morning in the build up to
Mandela Day, we'll be highlighting an organization or an individual
who is doing extraordinary things and inviting you to join them.
And this morning it's a turn of the Malazati Foundation
showing me via zoom is the founder of the foundation,

(00:42):
Tiffany Mahmati Haine. Tiffany, a very good morning and welcome
to the Showy Africa.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Thanks so much for having us.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
Tell us about the Manlizati Foundation.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Malisati Foundation is really just a formal name for our family. Truthfully,
we wanted to make our table longer, essentially and started
fastering children about eight years ago. When COVID hit that
just expanded exponentially. We took in twenty newborns in the
space of about six weeks in COVID and what we
thought was going to be a temporary arrangement really just

(01:16):
was a defining moment in our lives. And since then
we've taken in hundreds of children for temporary and sometimes
longer care, and we've been fortunate to be able to
expand that and be able to offer more holistic care
to biological families such that they can stay together.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Let's talk about that care that you offer, because, as
I'm presuming you intimate in your response there, their wish
is for the parent and the child to be reunited
right where it is possible and practical.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well as that really is first prized, I believe that
biological is best. Obviously, there are times when that's not
possible and that doesn't make sense for the safety of
a child. But I think in a country like South Africa,
where economics play such a massive part in the reason
for families being pulled apart, we can do a huge
amount to hold families together by supporting them in other ways.

(02:13):
So we really try our at most best to think
of innovative ways that we can hold whole families up
so that the actual family unit isn't destroyed and dependency
isn't exclusively on the state or alternate care systems, but
children can stay where they really belong, with their biological families.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Absolutely, you have five initiatives for Mandela Day. Do you
want to take us through them? Please?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
I do so. Our first project is in support of
one of our subprojects, Archies' Archives. So we started doing
palliative care for children in also end of life care
for children who had been essentially abandoned in hospitals. But
basically we're going to live their lives in hospitals. And
then in twenty twenty two, in the Universe had a

(03:05):
little surprise for us because I gave birth to our
youngest biological son, Archie, and he was also terminally ill.
And what we realized through our journey as parents in
the ICUs was that the sterility of the ICUs was
a terrifying experience and it often took away the ability
for us to parents, you know, all those basic parenting

(03:26):
abilities were removed from us and placed in the hands
of the nurses. And to cut very long story short,
we started reading to Archie as a way of connecting
with him in the hospital and a way of really
making sure that he could hear our voice more than
he heard the nurses. And their alarms and all the scariness,
and so subsequent to Archie's passing, in honor of his life,

(03:47):
we have put sunny little archives, so little yellow libraries
into ICUs around the country and with the supporter by
a German, we're rolling out another fifteen units this Mandela
Day and we are asking people to come along with
ten new books and help us pack the packages. These
are gift bags that we give to parents and families

(04:08):
in the hospital. So that's the one initiative which is
a real heart initiative that we're really excited about. Our
youngest daughter also does a little non private organization which
reaches out to schools in various communities around South Africa,
and she's packing Dignity packs for girls to assist with

(04:29):
basic hi gene. We realize that in a lot of
schools that we visit, the children don't have basic things
like underwear, so these little Dignity packs. We're asking people
to come onto the property, bring the items required for
a Dignity pack and then pack that Dignity pack on site.
We're also doing a financial drive just trying to collect

(04:51):
sixty seven thousand NaNs and support of Maltazi Foundation and
the residential care of the children and families under our wing.
And then an Appian formula drive where we are collecting
nephew and nephew's and formula had to keep us going
around here.

Speaker 1 (05:08):
That is three. And by the way, condolences to you
and your family of course, on the passing of Archie.
And I am so wonderfully proud of you in turning
what could be a devastating and deeply depressing moment in
your family into such light for many other families and
many other children.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Thank you. It's really it's been a phenomenal experience. It's
assisted us in ensuring that Archie's legacy lives on and
I think as a mum, to be able to yeah,
Archie's name said so often when his life was really
so short, one is devastated at the prospect that your
child may be forgotten. And it's just been the most

(05:48):
beautiful way to honor his legacy and shure that his
names remain on the lift of the people who didn't
even have the privilege of meeting him. So it really
has been a fulfilling journey for us.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
I can imagine Malatzatzi Foundation dot Co dot Za is
that the best website for me to send people to
to learn more about the initiatives and more importantly, how
they can then contribute and help in the individual initiatives
that you've highlighted.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
So we're a bit more active on social so at
Malatsatsi Foundation or at Archie's Archives or zoonks in Ghana,
we've got the three social media pages. Unfortunately, as a nonprofit,
those little things like websites become a bit stagnant because
funds get used for projects that really impact. So I
think social media is probably better to find us, and

(06:40):
I'll leave the links for the signups on there as well.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
Please. Yeah, for some people this is important because they
get text benefits if they're using particularly corporate money or
foundation money. For them to donate, you do have a
Section eight and a status or you're not for profit
organization right.

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Yes, we are no organization, public beneficiary organization and level
one B. So we take all the boxes for corporates
to get their tex NB requirements through any donations made.

Speaker 1 (07:11):
The objective of these interviews, Tiffany is for us to
highlight obviously things that people can do around Mandela Day.
I imagine that these initiatives will survive the eighteenth of July,
and that people will be able to continue contributing and
helping beyond, just as Friday, right, I think that's.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Really the goal. I think we know that this is
a cribe and societies that are healthy, and our see
nonprofit organizations very much as the healthcare workers of keeping
society healthy. And I think that people being involved in
these initiatives really is just the opening to them seeing
what's done on the ground by nonprofits which are so
much with the last blood of this country.

Speaker 1 (07:54):
An absolutely amazing, amazing array of initiatives that are shared
with us, and of course the work of the foundation
as sounds incredible. Tiffany, thank you famous for chatting to
us this Monday morning, and all the best for Manila
Day and of course those initiatives, as I said, that
will live and exist beyond the eighteenth of July the

(08:14):
Malatzatzi Foundation, as Tiffany indicated, best to find them on
socials at Malatzatzi because understandably, funding that is acquired genuinely
needs to be concentrated on the actual programs that are
being laid out. Malatzatzi Foundation dot co dot to day
is the website nonetheless, but rather look for them on

(08:35):
socials and do support them beyond this week.