Have a place along the Wild Coast, every xmas we try to take soccer balls and dolls for the local children in the area.
Space is a bit limited most of the time as we have 2x dogs and my 2yr old son and another boy on the way.
Most people throw sweets and such which seems rude, we pick a windy day and drive into rural area and give out old clothes, soccer balls and dolls.
I usually ask people at my work to donate what they can.
The one girl I gave a donated teddy bear to and her friend got my bafana bafana t-shirt , she hugged that thing so tight I thought it's eye's where going to pop out it's head.
I'll be taking stuff down in the June long weekend again.
People do the same in Mozambique with the sweets we tend to take pens, pencils, rulers, stickers, notepads etc.