African Kaleidoscope Events

31/08/2024

Took advantage of a special winter promotion and discovered this hidden gem as an ideal place for weddings, team building, conferences, year end functions, spitbraais, etc Old Mac Daddy in the beautiful Elgin Valley. The management and staff have been wonderful and friendly hospitality since we checked in.
Give it a try as something different

09/08/2024

💁🏻‍♀️HAPPY WOMEN’S DAY

The willingness to listen,
The patience to understand,
The strength to support,
The heart to care and just to be there,
That is the beauty of a Lady🌷

Let’s celebrate 👇🏽👇🏽

20/07/2024

A HUGE THANK YOU
MANDELA DAY
CHRISTMAS IN JULY🎄🎅🏽
CELEBRATING AKE’s 21st

Although more photos will come later from the photographer, I want to thank all “my people” for supporting this initiative.
This has been on-going since March and the support has been overwhelming and absolutely amazing at the same time!

To the Vuya Foundation CEO, Josh Isaac, Avril Salo, Oscar, Amelia, Principal Rhonelle, teachers and volunteers at New Rest Valley Crèche in Riebeek Kasteel for your cooperation, support and partnership.
The excitement and smiles from the children has made this very special and seeing the parents leave with much needed food, is what this whole initiative was all about🙏🏻❤️

To the

for the collect-a-can and non-perishable food donations. We could not have done this without YOU👏🏼On behalf of the parents and children, we say a huge thank you. Through this generous donation the stress of hunger will be lessened.
Thank you newly elected President Cherise Viljoen of Cherish Plants and your executive and members❤️

To head office for a further generous food voucher that made loaves of bread, vegetables, bags and more foodstuff possible.

To Rosys event design & decor for the Christmas decor and smalls hiring, whilst setting this up the sounds of excitement from the children was truly heartwarming, THANK YOU so much 😁

in Parow, Thank you for the donation of water for the event and for the school

To Elton Davids of -sa for transporting all the many boxes, bags and just about everything and for all your assistance and especially for blowing up all those balloons🎈🎈🎈🎈

Pieter Staal for just being there and for all your help and patience with packing, making parcels, wrapping gifts and driving me around to shops to get everything🙌🏽

Thank you to my granddaughter Madison for putting stickers on the buckets 😘

To Avril for organising and collecting the beautiful birthday cake and cupcakes 🍰🧁🧁and for the lovely sweeties for the party buckets. Thanks for collecting all the bread and vegetables 🥔🧅🍞

Then lastly to my amazing family and a special friend for donating food and clothes - your generosity is truly heartfelt and thank you all from the bottom of my heart🧡💛💜💚

I cannot think of a better way to celebrate a milestone of 21 years 🎉than with the people who would appreciate it most🧡

Thank you GOD for blessing me and thank you all very much🤗
My AKE and Alison Barnard🧡 is full of joy

18/07/2024

“It is in your hands, to make a better world for all who live in it.” Nelson Mandela

01/07/2024

🎉AKE TURNS 2️⃣1️⃣🎉

I want to thank my family, friends, clients, service providers, current & ex colleagues and business associates for being a part of AKE’s success for 21 years!🫶🏽🙌🏽
What a rollercoaster as I think back and reminisce on all the events big and small, whether it was lavish affairs in affluent towns and suburbs to community events in the townships of SA’s provinces.
When trying to create a collage it was quite difficult as there are so many to choose from – let me not talk about all the CD’s and flash drives filled with photos.📸💿

I could not have done this without you and want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the amazing support and for the opportunity if I met you and worked with you.😘

This month as we celebrate Mandela Day, AKE will be celebrating this milestone by having a “Christmas in July Party” for the children at New Rest Valley Creche in Riebeek Kasteel on 19 July.🎄
The kids will enjoy cakes, sweets and treats 🧁🍬🧃as well as receive Christmas presents placed under the tree 🎁whilst the parents will receive much needed foodstuff. 🥫🍞This all to assist in making winter warmer.
Special thanks to everyone who donated to this worthy cause💖A huge thanks to the Rotary Club of Signal Hill who has made this initiative a great success and also to PnP for the generous gift voucher.🙏🏻👏🏽

Looking forward to more planning and organising 😁






The 2 people who was there from the beginning Jonathan Hartogh and Avril Salo a huge thank you 🫶🏽and other amazing colleagues Zulfaa Jassiem Mandla 'Chonx' Mataure as well as all the amazing CPUT interns (too many to mention) but know that you were all absolutely amazing to work with🤗
And last but not least Pieter Staal who has been by my side all these years who just naturally got on with the job at hand😘

04/06/2024

😳🙄😣

Loadshedding has been speculated to return in the coming week as demand ramps up due to colder weather, energy experts have warned.Eskom has stated that they will limit power cuts to stage 2 but has 'not ruled out the possibility of higher stages', as reported by Daily Investor.

27/05/2024

African Kaleidoscope Events (AKE) and Vuya Foundation would once again like to give a huge thanks and appreciation to
for the 2️⃣nd collect-a-can handover for our Mandela Day campaign and Christmas in July celebration with the kids for AKE’s 21st birthday🥳🎉




Let me take this opportunity to thank everyone who donated and those still donating towards the campaign🫶🏽

Donation Timeline📌
Before or by 28 June 2024

11/05/2024

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

🌷🌷Wishing all mom’s a beautiful day with all the love and happiness you so richly deserve 🌷🌷
May all the love you give come back to you hundredfold on this special day!

To all those with a mothering heart who step up to care for children🧑🏻‍🍼
Thank you for answering God’s call, and for nurturing, loving, guiding and protecting the children placed in your path🫶🏽🌸

29/04/2024

[COLLECT-A-CAN]
ROTARY CLUB OF SIGNAL HILL

African Kaleidoscope Events (AKE) and Vuya Foundation would like to give a huge thanks and appreciation to

for the collect-a-can handover for our Mandela Day campaign and Christmas in July celebration of AKE’s 21st birthday🥳🎉

Cherise Viljoen of Cherish Plants thank you for your contribution to make this happen 🫶🏽





We look forward to receiving any donation towards this campaign🫶🏽❤️

22/04/2024

[FRIENDLY REMINDER]

Your support for the Vuya Foundation Winter Warmer Campaign is greatly appreciated

04/04/2024

[WINTER WARMER CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCEMENT]

As we draw closer to Mandela Day and African Kaleidoscope Events 21st birthday, we plan a special celebration🎉

Nothing makes me happier than to celebrate by giving to those less fortunate❤️

We have partnered with the Vuya Foundation a nonprofit organization which focuses on providing Early Childhood Development in the rural Western Cape. The foundation runs 2 fully operational ECD facilities namely, Oppie Koppie crèche located near Ceres(Prince Alfred Hamlet) who caters for 150 young learners from the low-income communities in the area.
The second ECD facility, New Rest Valley crèche is a much newer facility located in the community of Esterhof in Riebeek Kasteel and currently caters for 67 learners with the maximum capacity of 96.

Reaching 21 years in business is a big deal so we will be having Christmas in July party for the children.

Whilst sweets,🧁🧃🍬treats and little gifts 🎁 under the Christmas tree 🎄will make the children very happy, we would like to provide parcels of love 💕 for the the extremely impoverished communities of both Riebeek Kasteel and Prince Alfred Hamlet in the form of basic foodstuffs to assist with the harsh and cold winter conditions and help make winter a bit warmer 🔥

Please see all the information and our appeal below 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

28/03/2024

This Easter, let the happy thoughts multiply like rabbits🐰🐰🐰
Easter blessings to you and your family 🐣
May the Easter celebration inspire new hope, happiness, prosperity, fun and egg-citement🐇🐇

20/03/2024

Teaching Human Rights to Children

11/03/2024

Wishing all my Muslim clients, service providers, friends and FB friends well over the month of Ramadan ☪️