The Darling Trust

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THE DARLING TRUST is a charitable trust that assists the Darling community by empowering individuals to help themselves, mainly through participation in the sectors of education, skills development and health. In this website you will find details on the work that we do and how you can be involved.

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Reach4Sight in Darling, May 2013

It is thanks to Peter Goring from JUWI that The Darling Trust was able to offer free prescription lenses to the Darling community. Reach4Sight (NGO) nominated Darling as a beneficiary for a free eye testing clinic held on the 6th 7th and 8th May at 5 different venues throughout the village. Thank you to Keith and Roxanne Reid from Reach4Sight for their time given and interest taken – testing 535 pairs of eyes is quite a feat!! The frames of all specs made up are donated by Reach4Sight.

Mr Goring nominated The Darling Trust as his charity to which his family and friends donated money in lieu of presents for his 60th birthday celebration. This donation will be used to make sure that of the 535 tested Darling residents, all 55 that needed glasses will receive free prescription glasses all of whom are not able to afford the eye tests let alone the prescription lenses and frames

Much appreciation goes to Mr Goring from a very grateful community! What a wonderful way to celebrate your birthday!!

Vooruitsig Primary School - total tested (Grade 4- 9) = 272 learners

total specs to be dispensed = 14

Darling Primary School - total tested (Grade 4-9) = 100

total specs to be dispensed = 6

Evita's Darlings Grade R - total tested = 64

one pair of specs to be dispensed to the care taker

Korhansrug Farm School - total tested = 15

1 pair of specs to be dispensed

Adult residents - total tested = 84

total specs to be dispensed = 33

Anna Cleophas (The Darling Trust Trustee), Roxanne and Keith Reid from Reach4Sight

A Happy day on 13 April 2013 at Evita se Perron

Bicycles for Darling! Thank you for Sowing the Seeds in Darling...Dear Daisies and Pick n Pay!

As Official Greening Partner of Rocking the Daisies and sponsor of the 'Cycle the Daisies', Pick n Pay has chosen to donate 15 bicycles to The Darling Trust.

These bicycles have been 'earned' by enthusiastic visitors of Rocking the Daisies who took the effort of cycling on the Pick n Pay stationary bikes-for each 5 km cycled, Pick n Pay donates a bicycle and a helmet to children who have been identified by The Darling Trust.

The school nominated for this generous contribution is Morning Star School on the road between Darling and Malmesbury.

The Darling Trust trustees, Anna Cleophas and Ivy Johnson were present to assist with the handover of this wonderful contribution to Darling children!

On Tuesday the 20 March another successful Athletics Day was held at Darling Primary sports fields

Principal Noeline Borman and her winning team of teachers and volunteers put on a spectacular day of sports, fun and competition between the three wee pre-primary schools of Darling - Evita's Darlings, Klouter Kabouter and Darling Pre-Primary.
Blessed with a beautiful sunny summer's morning, parents were out in full force supporting the budding athletes and even joined in on the Parent Relay!

This day would not have been possible without the support of KK and DPP's teachers and all the parents as well as the following contributors:

Darling Primary School for the venue
ENGEN for snack packs
Mr and Mrs Anton Bredell for Evita's Darlings' snack packs
Darling Roomery / Lentefris for juice for all the children
Tjaart Steyn for the use of a very needed gazebo for Evita's Darlings
The Darling Trust for the toilets sponsored for the day

This has become an annual event and one that the teachers of all three schools can be proud of - THANK YOU for your dedication.

Last but not least the winners of the day: Evita's Darlings for the relay and the parents of Darling Pre Primary for the adult relay - CONGRATULATIONS!

Get one of Tannie Evita's cookbooks and impress your guests at the dinner table
while contributing to The Darling Trust

If the road to reconciliation run through a country’s belly, Evita’s Kossie Sikelela cookbook provides its recipe for peace. She invites the whole country, the whole world to her table where everybody can feast on dishes like green bean bredie and cumin chicken with sweet potatoes. Who’ll be able to moan and groan between mouthfuls of walnut balls and pampoenkoekies, or baked apple clowns? Truly, there’s nothing like a generous helping of rabbit in red wine or guinea fowl with sultanas & hanepoot to bring forth brotherly love.

And liewe aarde, you will definitely want to be best friends with the orange trifle and Tannie’s melktert. Evita is always well prepared and includes recipes for diabetics and vegetarians, Halaal and Kosher dishes, and even recipes to keep as fit as she does.

Whether she entertains her grandchildren, caters for a picnic or plans a Christmas menu, Evita cooks up a storm.
Richly illustrated by artist Linda Vicquery, the expert behind the dishes.

Also included: many photographs of Evita and a preface by none other than Sophia Loren. Unfolded, the dust jacket is a laminated full-colour poster.

Also available in Afrikaans as Evita se Kossie Sikelela.

Evita's Kossie Sikelela (Umuzi) costs R175 including VAT and is available from selected leading bookshops as well as Evita se Perron.

All royalties go to The Darling Trust

Evita — acclaimed chef and icon of the nation — presents her recipes for delicious dishes gathered on travels in South Africa and around the world.
From the Cape to Limpopo, the West Coast to our president's home province, come divine platefuls: guineafowl with prunes, potroasted quail, quince bredie and orange duck. Pofadders, oxtail and even sweet and sour warthog.

Evita reinvents old favourites, and deliciously prepares veldkos — who would have thought of waterblommetjie chicken or dandelion salad for the dinner table?

Each recipe has been tested and vetted, and they're all ridiculously easy to make.

My liewe aarde, just paging through the book is a mouth-watering experience, with all these pictures taken on her visits. First there was Kossie Sikeleta, now there is Bossie. A new culinary front hits your table.

Evita's Bossie Sikelela costs R175 including VAT and is available from selected leading bookshops as well as Evita se Perron.

All royalties go to The Darling Trust

South Africa’s darling gardener, Keith Kirsten, visits Tannie Evita in Darling again!

We are ever grateful for the support of each and every valued funder and contributor:
!kwah ttu Darling ◊ Adele du Plessis ◊ Alan & Tessa McManus ◊ Alexanderfontein ◊ Alfred Legner ◊ All Darling Guest Houses ◊ Allison Hart ◊ Ami Smutts ◊ AMKA ◊ Angie and Mike Rutherford ◊ Anneli Smit ◊ Anri and Antoinette van Heerden ◊ Arks ◊ Barbara Bowden ◊ BATA ◊ Bistro ◊ Book League ◊ Bos Theaterproucties ◊ Breadline ◊ Brenda Wintgen ◊ Brig’s Barn ◊ Broadway Cares ◊ Buitenverwaght ◊ Cafe Mosaic c ◊ Cape Country Properties ◊ Cape Gourmet Food Festival ◊ Chantal d Orthez ◊ Charles Whalley ◊ Charles Withington ◊ Chicory Cheese ◊ Church of Revelation ◊ Cloof ◊ Cloof Wine Estate ◊ Coenie De Villiers ◊ Crow’s Nest – Johan Snyman ◊ Darling Angels ◊ Darling Back packers ◊ Darling Brew ◊ Darling Cellars ◊ Darling Chickens ◊ Darling Ladies that Lunch ◊ Darling Meat Market ◊ Darling Olives ◊ Darling Pomegranates ◊ Darling Presbyterian Church ◊ Darling Romery ◊ Darling SPAR ◊ Darling Tourism ◊ Darling Wild Flower Society ◊ Dept of Social Development ◊ Diep river Police ◊ Dormehl Properties ◊ Dorps Koerant ◊ Dr Kemp ◊ DSD ◊ ECCO tours ◊ Engen ◊ Erica Joubert ◊ Ernst & Young ◊ Evita se Perron ◊ Gameskin ◊ Gary and Chanda Barrows ◊ Godfrey Johnson ◊ Greater Good South Africa ◊ Grootepost ◊ Hannelie and Riaan Neethling ◊ HE Senacht ◊ Inge Bos ◊ Ingrid Sinclair ◊ ISASA ◊ ITNA ◊ Ivy Johnson ◊ Jakkalsfontein ◊ Jane Wallace ◊ Janice Barrett ◊ Jean Beaton ◊ Jill Ritchie ◊ JK Wagner ◊ Jock Smit ◊ Julie and Des Fenning ◊ Just Trees - Paarl ◊ Karen Korte ◊ Keith Hendry ◊ Keith Kirsten ◊ Kirsten Vervoer ◊ Lesley Sutherland ◊ Lewis Store ◊ Linda Viquery ◊ Lindbergh Foundation ◊ Loretta & Neil Rhoda ◊ Mackintosh Foundation ◊ Marmalade Cat ◊ Maryatta Wegerif ◊ Maxal Projects ◊ Medihelp ◊ MG Matzer ◊ Moiras Darling Food ◊ Nadine Brooks ◊ New Plant Nursery ◊ Nicolette Heijmerink ◊ NSRI ◊ Old Mutual ◊ Oppenheimer ◊ Ormonde ◊ Owen Britz ◊ Peter Goring ◊ Pick n Pay ◊ Paarl Police college ◊ PDU ◊ Planet Art Creative Centre ◊ R & L Architects and Interiors ◊ Random House Struik ◊Reach4Sight ◊ Reliance compost ◊ Rhoda Kadalie ◊ Rhodes University ◊ Ross Devenish ◊ Roundtable ◊ Rudewaan ◊ Sabine Platner ◊ Saffron Kitchen - Arizona ◊ SAMRO ◊ Sandy Bailey ◊ Sandy Smuts ◊ SANEC ◊ Sarah Elphik ◊ Saun Mclauglin ◊ Sue Flight ◊ Soroptimisten (NL)◊ Springfield Convent ◊ Stargrow Nursery – Citrusdal ◊ Stefan Hurter ◊ Steve's electrical ◊ Stichting Darling (NL) ◊ Susan Fine ◊ Swartland Municipality ◊ Taste of Darling ◊ The AS 100 Club ◊ The Darling Wine Shop ◊ The Planet Art Creative Centre ◊ The Village Vet ◊ Tonja Verheul ◊ Trencor ◊ Uda Strydom ◊ Voorkamerfest ◊ Waterwise ◊ WC Cult ◊ WCCF ◊ Wim Visser ◊ WCED / WKOD ◊ WP Caterers ◊

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