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Help END Homelessness

Give responsibly. Support solutions that truly make a difference.

Why support the homeless
cause?

Homelessness is one of the most visible and pressing challenges in our cities. While the scale of the problem can feel overwhelming, every individual has the power to make a meaningful difference.

Many South Africans respond to homelessness with compassion, offering money, food, or clothing to individuals on the street.

While well-intentioned, this form of giving can have unintended consequences.  The opportunity to contribute meaningfully to homeless is made possible trough the Zlto platform.Zlto enables South Africans to choose responsible giving over compationate giving. The Zlto platform provides a transparent, trustworthy and accountable as an enabler for donations to be made digitally and it interacts with the key enablers who work with people experiencing homelessness as illustrated below.

Zlto Enabling Platform

It provides the digital infrastructure that makes voucher allocation, earning, redemption and tracking possible at scale.

This gives the model greater transparency, better traceability, and more flexibility than a paper-only system, while also making it easier to manage reporting and future growth.

Michange Coordination

MiChange runs the voucher system, connecting orgnisations interested in becoming an authorised service provider with the Zlto platform.

MiChange identifies and selects service providers, trains them to use the system, and provides ongoing quality assurance through site visits and arranging mystery client visits.

MiChange helps ensure that vouchers are not redeemed in isolation, but within a network of approved partners that can offer appropriate support.

Implementers
(MES, U-turn, etc.)

These are the organisations that do the day-to-day work with beneficiaries. They provide the actual services, engage people at the point of redemption, create opportunities to earn vouchers through meaningful activity, and connect individuals into developmental programmes that can lead to longer-term change .
They are the pathway partners who turn first contact into deeper engagement.The benefit of this approach is that each part contributes a different strength.

Zlto provides the technology and scalability. MiChange provides the voucher model, partner network, training and quality assurance. Service providers deliver the human support and developmental pathway. Together, this creates a model that is more accountable than cash giving, more structured than one-off relief, and more likely to support real movement out of homelessness because it links compassion, services and progression in a coordinated way.

Partners

Give responsibly
R54.99
Give a gift of cleanliness
This package include:
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Shower
R74.99
You've got to be clean and well fed
This package include:
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Shower
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Meal
R149.99
Being well rested and looking good doesn't hurt
This package include:
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Shower
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Meal
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Overnight stay
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