Are you a graduate, who is also blind or partially sighted? We have a part-time job opportunity for you….

Posted on 26 March 202426 March 2024 by Helen Vosloo

SAMBT is looking for: a blind or partially sighted person, preferably a graduate, who wants to learn to fundraise and who enjoys running blindness sensitisation workshops. This is a part-time; projected 10 hours a week position. Location: remote work combined with donor meetings, sensitisation events and field trips. This position is for you if: Key Read more about Are you a graduate, who is also blind or partially sighted? We have a part-time job opportunity for you….[…]

The Next Step

Posted on 25 May 202326 May 2023 by Teboho

The first school quarter of every year is a crucial time for independence training at schools for the blind, as the new 5 – 6-year-olds who are blind or partially sighted, arrive in this big strange new place called boarding school. We regularly train at about eight schools for the blind who do not have Read more about The Next Step[…]

We Did It!

Posted on 14 December 20201 April 2021 by Teboho

Thanks to you, our supporters, donors, friends and partners, we did it! We managed to continue training blind people to be independent. Came March 2020 and the world was turned upside-down. And so it was for us at SAMBT. As Covid-19 struck, we found ourselves walking on shifting sands, our plans for the year in Read more about We Did It![…]

Dignity Regained

Posted on 10 September 202028 September 2020 by Helen Vosloo

James is a pensioner. His home is in rural North West Province. James is blind. Kidibone is teaching him. She is teaching him how to use a white cane. This is how she tells it. “When I landed at James’s place two weeks ago, he already knew about me from my previous clients and he Read more about Dignity Regained[…]

Lockdown

Posted on 9 September 202028 September 2020 by Helen Vosloo

While in lockdown now, our practitioners are calling their previous clients to hear how they are getting along. Are they managing to safely and independently get themselves to the spaza or supermarket to get food? How are they experiencing their new-found independence? Do they know that they should not use the normal sighted guide techniques? Read more about Lockdown[…]

Training During Lockdown

Posted on 8 September 202028 September 2020 by Helen Vosloo

Our practitioners have been in touch with their previous clients during the national lockdown. Unusually, the practitioners have had time on their hands being at home… Normally our practitioners run a new training programme in a new area, every 3 months. This leaves them little time to check up on each and every previous client.The Read more about Training During Lockdown[…]

If NGOs were suddenly to disappear, would anyone notice?

Posted on 7 September 202028 September 2020 by Helen Vosloo

Read this article in Daily Maverick with a letter from our Managing Trustee Ian Hutton:‘If NGOs were suddenly to disappear, would anyone notice?’https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-04-20-new-threat-to-the-poor-and-vulnerable-as-charities-and-ngos-face-cashflow-crisis/

“Before I Could not Walk”

Posted on 6 September 202028 September 2020 by Helen Vosloo

Jonas is Independent: A-Z

Posted on 4 September 202028 September 2020 by Helen Vosloo

Ntombifuthi’s Journey

Posted on 3 September 202014 October 2020 by Helen Vosloo

Not just an ordinary South African township address. This here is where Retofohile meets – a self-help group of blind people. The house at 6541 Motloung belongs to Ivy. She has given them a space in her humble home to meet. Ivy herself walks using a crutch. We are inside now and here are some Read more about Ntombifuthi’s Journey[…]