We first heard of Honey's Garden and the puppy Havana when our former colleague, Laura, mentioned that she’s going to be fostering a dog as part of training her to become a medical alert dog.
Havana is a greyhound who has now almost completed her training to help people with celiac disease. Havana and her sister were rescued from a township in Cape Town and were then taken in by Honey’s Garden, an NGO that grants special attention to street dogs.
Having watched Laura's journey and her commitment to how much time, money, work and love goes into training a dog, MSS Kapstadt’s decision to help Honey’s Garden was a unanimously easy one to make, and the most natural next step. And what started as our small team’s plan to pitch in with a donation and a volunteering visit to the NGO quickly turned into these expansive campaigning efforts that we’d love to include our family, friends, and professional acquaintances in.
The entire team is quite fond of Havana, and of course Havana is just one great example of many other dogs like her, which are tasked with the commendable responsibility of improving a person’s life. We would like to give these dogs the best possible chance at succeeding in this intensive 2-year training period, and help them enjoy the journey all along. By helping these intelligent animals, we are also helping fellow humans, a factor that adds to the importance of this unanimously good cause.

This means that no matter how small or big the donation from us, and whether it is through money, a helping hand, or a shared link, we are certain that we each give confidently with the knowledge that it is not only a wonderful and rewarding cause, but also as a social responsibility and an opportunity for us at MSS Kapstadt to grow as individuals and to share our values as a company.

Hence we decided to have our website include a small page dedicated to Havana’s cause, which is where you find yourself right here.