East Coast Breakfast

Samantha is a kids yoga Instructor and mother of 4. With schools closing due to the lock downs and no extra mural activities, she has been left with no income and struggling to pay rent, let alone afford food.

Without any other source of income (other than maintenance which is never paid on time) she has had to receive food parcels from friends to feed her kids. At the beginning of lockdown, Sam went through a very tough divorce, and not long after, the place she was renting was sold and she had to find a new place to stay during lockdown.

Listen here for more of her story and how she reacted to our contribution.

Darren Maule has the best facts on Get Fact'd with Darren Maule.

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Find out here with Darren.

Good Mauling!

We kick off the morning shraing the news of Mouse's birthday, She turns 13 today! We all know these are about to be the most interesting if not hard time for Darren as a father.

Have a listen to how he feels.

One big way they have previously been able to grow funds for the faiclity was through a fundraising event that they plan every year. This year they were supposed to host their 40th anniversary gala dinner but we all know what stopped that from happening.

Another financial knock was the loss of their international volunteer program which used to cover up to half of their overheads when we they are fully booked. Since lockdown at the end of March 2020, only had 5 international volunteers have made a contribution to CROW.

The Big Favour fortunately exists to make life better in such situations. They are a business which provides homes with everything fabric and wallpaper related distributors. They also have specialize in a variety of upholstery, curtaining, outdoor furniture, wall covering and contract collections to the South African and African market.

Take a listen to how grateful Clint from CROW was.

On a realistic note, it is going to take quite a while for us to rebuild and truly replace the livelihoods, financial investments, and years of hard work that the #KZNShutdown brutally and so easily burned down in more or a less a week.

We are painfully looking at an overall amount of a R20-billion taint on KwaZulu-Natal's GDP - in simple terms, this means that our economy has lost that much money. The producers, the businesses, the government, and the consumers are all affected, therefore this weakens our economy even more with this hard knock.

Take a listen to how hard a knock

Kerry-Leigh shares that Nathan is 5 years old and his mom, Emma is in the tourism and travel industry and they have been taking a beating since the first lock down began.

Taking a look back at last year on Nathans birthday party she spoke to Emma who stated they were without income and tried very hard to make their sons birthday party happen as it was something very special for him. About 2 weeks ago, she saw them again , and it has seemed that they are really really in a bad place.

Emma mentioned just as they were seeing a little light, the level 4 lockdown came in again and took away all their hope of recovery.

"My heart bleeds for this family , as they are the most amazing little family with so much hope yet every time they see the little light it gets taken away from them. I am a mommy of 2 little angels and I can relate to how it feels not to be able to provide for your little human , it is the worst feeling on this planet," Kerry-Leigh shares.

Emma is a beam of light and you can hear it through the phone.

Warren was nominated by Patricia Manickum after he quit his call center job to pursue his passion for make-up last. That was an unfortunate time for him to dive into entrepreneurship in that field as Level 5 lockdown in South Africa took over most of the year.

He has been struggling along trying to do online make up lessons and odd events' photo shoots here and there. Unfortunately this is not enough to support him and his mother in the home. Patricia shares that he is an extremely talented young man and has such a lot to offer, but the situation right now is so bleak and she hates to see him lose hope in his dream.

Here's how our call with Warren went:

Get Fact'd with Darren Maule sees the main man sharing facts that you are likely to hear anywhere else.

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Good Mauling, it is a Wednesday morning with Darren, Keri and Sky. Can you believe we are going to be on TV this weekend?!

We were asked to keep it together but Keri just could not hold it in.

Take a listen to find out for what we will be on TV for.

His daughter, Shana Ashpole, had nominated him but was unavailable when we tried to call him earlier to connect him with his dad.

The daughter shared that Jeremy has a little pension money has hardly had any work since lockdown. He runs a professional karaoke setup at restaurants and bars. Many of the establishments have closed their doors and others feel that karaoke doesn’t work with curfew at 21:00. This is his primary income. He feels like a complete failure as he cannot contribute anything and has very few working years left of his life. He is so good at what he does but at 77 is starting to take strain!\

He is a charismatic man, listen to hear to how it went for Darren's Tip Jar.