MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME!
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. – Billy Joel

From left: Shout Foundation’s Danny K and Kabelo together with National Police Commissioner, General Bheki Cele; Deputy Police Minister, Fikile Mbaluka and interim-chair of the Shout Foundation, Yusuf Abramjee.

SHOUT, the civil society anti-crime movement led by prominent South African musicians, artists and celebrities, is making an indelible mark in the fight against crime in South Africa.  Today, the SHOUT Foundation donated R50 000.00 (fifty thousand Rand) to “Matla a Bana”, a Non Profit Organisation, which runs various projects around child victims of crime. The organization aims to minimize the secondary abuse children suffer, when they report crimes against them.
SHOUT also donated 40 GPS navigation devices for police vehicles – which will be supplied to police officers in critical areas in KZN and the Western Cape.  During the handover ceremony in Johannesburg this morning, SHOUT Founders and Trustees, Danny K and Kabelo Mabelane said: “Credit must also go to the ordinary people of South Africa, as the celebrities involved in the campaign for a safer SA are merely the activators of SHOUT.”
“This is the first in a series of donations in the fight against crime. We will continue to sustain the campaign and do much more,” they added.  Since its launch on 16 March this year, SHOUT has been working relentlessly to raise money for NGO's and other organizations which play a vital role in crime prevention and/or fighting and victim support programmes - as well as rehabilitation programmes.
Funding is raised through donations to the Foundation, the sale of SHOUT T-shirts and CDs, as well as SHOUT song downloads to cell phones.