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Five South African restaurants contributed almost a third of the R1 million StreetSmart monies raised last year, with La Mouette in Sea Point being streets ahead in raising the most from the voluntary donations made by its diners. <\/p>\nFive South African restaurants contributed almost a third of the R1 million StreetSmart monies raised last year, with La Mouette in Sea Point being streets ahead in raising the most from the voluntary donations made by its diners. <\/p>\n
We have written about StreetSmart before, using the concept of #EatOutHelpOut, to describe the cumulative benefit of a R5 donation added to every bill at participating restaurants, to go to StreetSmart. StreetSmart funds a number of programs around the country to ‘prevent the vulnerable from becoming street children, and help children already on the streets through reintegration back into schools or families can be funded’.<\/i> All the monies raised are used to support vulnerable children through education, skills training, and family reunification, to ‘normalize their lives and to be reintegrated into society<\/i>‘. The educational benefit of StreetSmart is long term, compared to giving street children money directly, said Melanie Burke, Chairman of Street Smart. <\/p>\n