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 Rag  Rag Projects: TUKS Rag is a student driven charity organization dedicated towards developing students through their active participation in fundraising and community service initiatives. At present, TUKS Rag is the largest organization of its kind in South Africa, and the third largest in the world.
RAG Float and Procession Asterhof has Kollege as our Rag Partners for the term 2012/2013. It is the perfect partnership as we are both the oldest residences at Tuks.
From 28 January to 1 February it was building week. This week is normally used to build the structural elements of a float. We chose to rather spend our time making a difference. We organized and carried out six charity projects. The projects we did were done with the hope of making literal childhood memories, ones that won’t just be remembered this RAG, but in years to come. We identified the needs of people in Pretoria (especially those of children) and acted to help them. RAG committee and HK/EC members from both Kollege and Asterhof spent the morning at Steve Biko. We interacted with the children and gave them each a teddy bear, a colouring book, crayons and much needed attention. The staff appreciated seeing smiles on the children’s face and every staff member received a card to show our immense respect and appreciation for what they are doing. Booysens Beertjies is an underprivileged preprimary school in Pretoria West. We donated stationery for the year as well as medical supplies to them. We also organised a fun day with them. The fun day included a jumping castle, music, sport, hotdogs, juice and watermelon.
Tshwaraganang orphanage We visited Tshwaraganang orphanage for an entire day. The orphanage is situated in Hammanskraal, a poor community in the North of Pretoria. We spent the day targeting each area of the orphanage we saw as needing attention. Refuse lying around the property was picked up, the empty library was filled with books stacked into categories, children were given lunch pack with a present and special message of hope. Clothing, toys, toiletries, food, seeds and other necessary items were donated to the orphanage. We finished the day off with a soccer game.
Kerkplein
We went to Kerkplein in the evening. We reached out to the homeless by handing out food packs, bags, beanies and blankets. The impact on the community could be seen by the way the people gathered around and enjoyed the food we had given, felt the thickness of the blankets we supplied and fitted the beanies we gave to warm their heads. Eleos Babahuis We went to Eleos Babahuis in Danville where maintenance was done around the property such as fixing doors and building walls. We played with the babies and toddlers and gave them some much needed attention.
Boetumelo Crèche The final outreach done was again in Hammanskraal at Boetumelo Creche. This was one of a different kind. We took 7m of our paper blommetjies out to the crèche and gave the children paint to put on their hands and paint the blommetjies. The children enjoyed it immensely and added their own uniqueness to our blommetjies.
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