Givelight South Africa, a non-profit organisation, is the sister organisation of Givelight Foundation, founded by Dian Alyan. Dian is an Indonesian-born American, a chemical engineer , who gave up her job to establish the organisation on the back of the disaster of the Tsunami in Asia in December 2004. Her family in Banda Aceh donated the first land after losing 40 family members. By December 2005 , Givelight Foundation had built their first home for 50 orphans. Since then the organisation has built and funded orphan homes in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka and Morocco and they sponsor and support many orphans in Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bay Area in America, Turkey, Palestine and Syria.

Givelight SA was borne from a brief interlude with Dian after a talk she delivered in Johannesburg in 2016. She accepted an invitation to visit Cape Town to tell her story at a Public Awareness event held in her honour in December 2016. By the time she left our blessed shores, she had pledged to build a home for our orphans.

All children, orphaned or abandoned, are in need of care and protection. However, the girls are by far the most vulnerable considering the alarming statistics of abuse and gender based violence prevalent in SA. It is tragic that this situation makes it difficult to place girl orphans in safe and secure foster homes. It is to this end that GLSA focusses its attention on creating that security and protection that is crucial to the holistic development of these most vulnerable girls.

GLSA intends to raise them to be confident, educated, self reliant women who have good character, integrity, modesty and dignity, role models and visionaries of the future.