The
third season of e.tv's reality charity show
Let's Fix It premieres on Tuesday 3 July, as the show returns for another 26 episodes.
Let's Fix It is a half-hour, weekly series on e.tv in which presenter
Samm Marshall is challenged to fix people's problems.
The third season consists of 26 episodes and each episode features one or two people – or organisations – carefully chosen by thousands of letters from all over the country.
Worthy recipients are chosen, varying from a young vet’s assistant in Khayelitsha, to a woman who feeds 200 young children every day with no sponsorship; a township ballet company, a kick boxer who teaches young men to become champions, a woman living with HIV who is giving her life to AIDS orphans.
Each project presents Samm with the challenge of formulating a plan, raising some of the sponsorships, drawing together the resources andmaking the project come to life.
This is done with a strict deadline in place as Samm competes against the clock. The team usually has about three days to complete any given "fix", although the size of the fix determines how much time is given to it.
The time limit aspect, combined with the often daunting obstacles to performing the tasks, set the stage for a dramatic countdown to the finish, where the project must be finished and the benefit presented to the needy person.
The channel’s vision for the third season of Let’s Fix It is: sustainable development, nation building, personal empowerment; community investment, growth, hope, entrepreneurial growth and inspiration to achieve and succeed.
The first episode - entitled "Bosom Buddies" - features five women in Somerset West who call themselves the Bosom Buddies.
They became aware of the plight of young, poverty-stricken mothers after the birth of often premature babies in the local government hospital. Some of the mothers have to walk 15 kilometers from the local township to get to the hospital to give birth.
These young mothers often have to stay in hospital for months without the very basic necessities for either their babies or themselves. Some of these mothers are as young as 15.
The Bosom Buddies compared the luxury treatment they received as young mothers in private hospitals to the treatment of the mothers in the state hospitals, and they decided to do something. Now, they live and breathe the project.
Let's Fix It III premieres on e.tv on Tuesday 3 July, at 20h30.