Day 3 Winners for 11/04/2012 are:

1. David Stephanus Barnard, Sandton
2. Sbusiso Alex Mnisi, Belfast

Day 4 Winners for 12/04/2012 are:

1. Octavia Fisiwe Neliswe Maphosa, Secunda
2. Dalwyn DieselL-Reynolds,   Bellville

Day 5 Winners for 13/04/2012 are:

1. Matilda Carolina de Beer, Ohrigstad
2. Jeanette Kruger-Hibbins, Lydenburg

Day 6 Winners for 14/04/2012 are:

1. Jan Hendrik Olivier, Primrose
2. Juanita Venter, Sandton

Day 7 Winners for 15/04/2012 are:

1. Martina Adriana Magdalena Vogel, Lydenburg
2. Antoinette de Jager,  Lydenburg

Each winner will receive a R400.00 Spar shopping Voucher. Congrats to all winners and thank you for your support guys!

Vouchers have been posted and should be received shortly.

A special word of thanks to Spar South Africa for sponsoring the vouchers and especially to both Steven and Andre for their hard work and effort providing support and sponsorship of this campaign. You guys rock!

Until next time.

Team AmaWheelies

Winners for 10/04/2012 are:

1. Thembi Skhosana of Cartoon Candy
2. Magda Duvenhage of  West Evans

Winners receive a R400.00 Spar shopping Vouchers. Congrats and thank you for your support guys!

Reminder:  Tune into JacaradaFM daily, we are giving away 2 x R400.00 Spar vouchers every day until 22 April.

All you need to do to stand in line to win is register for a freefax2email number from Ama Wheelies. It’s fast, easy and free.

The best part is that for every fax you receive, Telkom donates 20c towards the AmaWheelies Quad home.  So what are you waiting for, get your free fax2email number today. We earn money when you receive faxes and you can win Spar shopping vouchers for registering.

More winners announced tomorrow.

Team AmaWheelies

Winners for 09/04/2012 are:

1. Delene Sheasby of Skills Resource Group
2. Meaky Xolani Skosana of Cleaning Africa Thuŝanang.

Winners receive a R400.00 Spar shopping Vouchers.

Thank you to Delene Sheasby who donated her voucher back to the Ama Wheelies Quad home. You are a star Delene

Reminder: Tune into JacaradaFM daily, we are giving away 2 x R400.00 Spar vouchers every day until 22 April.

All you need to do to stand in line to win is register for a freefax2email number from Ama Wheelies. It’s fast, easy and free.

The best part is that for every fax you receive, Telkom donates 20c towards the AmaWheelies Quad home.  So what are you waiting for, get your free fax2email number today. We earn money when you receive faxes and you can win Spar shopping vouchers for registering.

More winners announced tomorrow.

Team AmaWheelies

Long Tom Marathon
31 March 2012 at 08:00 AM

We will be manning stand number 10 at Long Tom Marathon on 31 March 2012 and already entered; please help recover expenses. Do remember the great event last year as attached photos! This year we will have disabled athlete Amos representing Ama Wheelies in his racing wheelchair and Anita Viljoen specialist walker walking the race representing us!

Jacaranda 94.2FM Radio Advertising
26 March 2012 at 08:00 AM

26 March – 6 April 2012 we will be on the air, 8 slots per day, for two (2) weeks. Free Jacaranda radio advertising to promote our Fax2Email project. Tune in to Jacaranda FM on 94.2 FM and show your support towards our project. A huge thank you in advance to Jacaranda FM for their support, you guys rock!

Communication Training
24 April 2012 at 08:00 AM

We are preparing hard for our first certified communication training course scheduled 24 – 27 April 2012 with 20 Ama Wheelies members receiving training and 3G Smart phones donated by Nokia. Thank you to Nokia Connects for the support. More news to follow shortly.

Ricky Farber Live in Concert
12 May 2012 at 09:00 AM

On 12 May 2012 Ricky Farber will sing in concert as Ama Wheelies fundraiser.

2011 has been a difficult first year for Ama Wheelies. A year ago we moved to the Lydenburg cottage and on 27 November 2010 doors opened for the first Quadriplegic home in Mpumalanga! We arrived at a cottage wild and unattended; we cleaned, built ramps and made it a home.

The Lydenburg community welcomed Ama Wheelies at our golf day 14 May. The spring walk 1 September created further awareness but funding remains low. Assistance was there in the form of computers from Vodacom for our training room. Eastern Chrome pledged towards developing our farm and at the same time we had no support from any governmental institution.

Battling on our own we are trying to earn a living fattening pigs, rearing chickens and growing vegetables. Our produce we grow will soon sustain us but it is not yet providing us an income.

Writing to thank the family and friends that have been assisting us we extended the urgent appeal for financial help: would we be trodden down or could we still believe in humanity!

Our letters we wrote telling all we need help just like those anxious calls of the small elephant calling for help and as in a family of Elephants we found loving guardians in a harsh world. Cleaning Africa Thuŝanang  with Mr Midge Wood a dear friend depositing a huge deposit and the goodness continued Tubatse mine, Dhl and several private individuals opened their pockets donating R20 000.00 collectively assuring the survival of Ama Wheelies at least for the next two months.

The story of the baby elephant requires the baby to feed from the mother and start eating on its own. Ama wheelies made new applications with the government department and we look to 2012 with new confidence and apart from government assistance requests we have set up our fax2email campaign and the exciting dance Ama Wheelies will be hosting in 11 February in South Africa’s town of love!

Soon you will be invited with more information but in the same way the little elephant must be taken care of we share this link with our friends, family, and anyone who can continue to help Ama Wheelies to raise money to keep the home floating.

How to enter & win a Nokia N9:

1. Click here and Donate R20.00 towards Ama Wheelies. (1 entry for every R20.00 / $3 donated) Remember to include your full name, surname and email address when making the online donation.

2.  Optional - Follow @AmaWheelies and RT this message: “Win a Nokia N9 http://goo.gl/Va5bl #N9competition #AmaWheelies” (1 additional entry for tweeting this)
3. Optional - Blog about this raffle & share the link via @Amawheelies via twitter. (5 entries per blog post)

Prizes:

2 x Nokia N9 handsets are up for grabs. 1 handset per winner.

Terms: 

1. You can enter as many times as you like.
2. Draw will be done using the software tool at http://www.random.org/
3. Draw will only take place once we reach our goal of R20000.00 raised.
4. Judges decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
5. Prize will be delivered via DHL or other suitable courier. Courier fee is kindly sponsored by Nokia South Africa.
6.  All applicable taxes are for the winners account.
7. This raffle is void in countries were such raffles are not legal. Please check your local laws before entering.
8. You must be 18 years old to enter.
9. Anyone who makes a donation of R20.00 and who is eligible to enter according to these terms can win.
10. Winners agree to have their image published on this blog.

It’s fast and easy to enter and 100% of funds raised will benefit the Quadriplegics of Ama Wheelies. So what are you waiting for. Enter today!

A year ago a few very brave members of  Team Ama Wheelies moved to the Lydenburg cottage and on 27 November 2010 doors opened for the first Quadriplegic home in Mpumalanga! We arrived at a cottage wild and unattended; we cleaned, built ramps and made it a home.

The Lydenburg community welcomed Ama Wheelies at our golf day 14 May. The spring walk 1 September created further awareness but funding remained low. Assistance was there in the form of computers from Vodacom for our training room. Eastern Chrome pledged towards developing our farm and at the same time we had no support from any governmental institutions.

Battling on our own we are trying to earn a living fattening pigs, rearing chickens and growing vegetables. Our produce we grow on a small scale due to land size limitations will soon sustain us but it does not yet provide us an income. We regularly thank the family and friends that have been assisting us for the last few years with donations and support, without them we would not be were we are today.

Sadly though, family and friends can only do so much.  To make matters worse, promises made by government officials have not materialized, the fact is Ama Wheelies is being overlooked and neglected by local government and we are now forced to write an urgent appeal to anyone who can help Ama Wheelies financially.

People always say “Why did you not ask?”  This letter we write to publicly ask for help. At Ama Wheelies we need help and we ask you to please help in any way. Even if this means tweeting about about this article or sharing it on facebook. We appreciate any help we can get and donations will be acknowledged with a receipt. You may also remain anonymous if you so wish.

Not only is our cause worthy but in addition we are situated in RURAL Mpumalanga, serving DISADVANTAGED poor and DISABLED individuals enabling any donor to qualify for BEE and tax rebate. Our paperwork and record keeping is in order. Ama Wheelies is a section 21 non-profit organization (2008/021003/08) with our NPO number 083-504

Any help or support will be much appreciated. Thank you in advances.

Team Ama Wheelies.

This means you can now follow our latest news from the palm of your hand on your Nokia smartphone. The application is free to download from the Nokia Ovi Store. We invite you all to take our new blog for a test drive. Please let us know what you think.

To download our app Search for ‘Ama Wheelies’ in Ovi store or point your mobile browser here: http://store.ovi.com/content/143343

Credit: Nokia.com

“Mrs United Nations is designed for “real” women with a passion to bring value to people’s lives. The main purpose of this competition is to showcase the women of South Africa. Specifically, to show that they can simultaneously manage a family, have a career, support their community, and have a successful marriage. Mrs United Nations SA is a woman who can do it all with elegance and grace!”

In our humble opinion, Jeanette Kruger-Hibbins of Lydenburg, more than fits this role.  On more than one occasion Jeanette has gone above and beyond to help the boys and girls of Ama Wheelies.  Jeanette truly is a special person!

Preliminary judging of finalists will take place 26-27 August 2011 in Gauteng!  The top three delegates will then be selected and one special lady will walk away with the prestigious title of Mrs United Nations 2012.

Congratulations on being a finalist Jeanette, we can’t wait to see you crowned as winner of Mrs United Nations 2011/2012.