About this app

Stay connected and offer on-the-ground practical help through Connect My Family. Do you live far away from your loved ones but wish you lived next door or at least in the same city? Are there days you wish you could “be there for them” or help your family with life’s challenges ? Connect My Family enables you to be an active part of your family lives when you live far away.

WHY USE CONNECT MY FAMILY
Connect My Family combines a number of features together in one place so that you can stay connected and be a part of your family.
• Remind the family about important events – record where you will be on holiday, or a school happening, even a gentle nudge about the garbage removal.
• Have peace of mind by telling concerned family members that you have taken an important medicine.
• At a glance, know what the weather is for each of your family members.
• Receive a SOS text message so that you know if a loved one is in distress.
• Send messages to family to check in and keep up with the daily events.
• Share photos and videos so that those who live far away still share in your and your children’s lives and feel a part of the family.
All of this is FREE and available ANYWHERE in the world.

If you have family in South Africa you can order almost any service for them:
• Arrange for someone to help your family when their wi-fi breaks down or computer does not work.
• Send them flowers.
• Organise for a plumber to come to them to fix the toilet.
• Rush a breakdown truck to help them if they are stranded on the side of the road.
• Rush a nurse to your family’s bedside when they are ill.
We can arrange almost anything for you with a few clicks through the Connect My Family app. Yes, it is that easy. It will feel like you are living next door again.

APP FEATURES.
Connect My Family combines all of these features together into one app:
• Calendar. Set up reminders for the little things to help ensure that life runs smoothly. Reminders about birthdays, visits, or rubbish collection or doctor’s appointments. This functionality can be turned off if you don’t need it.
• Medicine. Schedule reminders for family or group members to take medicine and let others know that all is on track by clicking when you have had your dose. This functionality can be turned off if you don’t need it.
• SOS. In an emergency, hold down the SOS button for 5 seconds and a text message with the location of the phone will be sent to pre-programmed emergency contacts. Always know where your family are if there is an emergency.
• Services. Arrange practical and useful help for family in South Africa from wherever you are. Tell us what your family needs and when they need it and Connect My Family will organise everything. You need to subscribe for a nominal monthly fee to access the services and the cost of the service will be charged to you.
• Weather. See the weather for each of your family members in one place.
• Messages. Set up instant group chats or chat on a one to one basis. Send photos or videos or emoji’s! Keep in touch with growing grandchildren even when they live in another country.
• Gallery. Here are your photos and videos from your phone ready to share with the members of your group.

PLEASE NOTE
Currently you are only able to order services for delivery in South Africa. Most of Connect My Family is FREE but you will need a subscription to order services for your family in South Africa. Your subscription will automatically renew unless cancelled before the end of the current payment period. You will also need to pay for the services you order.

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