Special meal for special people
ALEXANDRA - More than 30 employees of Midrand-based ICT services company, T-Systems, took time off from their busy schedule and descended on Alexandra to feed more than 200 children at Abangani eNkosini Children's Home.
More than 30 employees of Midrand-based ICT services company, T-Systems, took time off from their busy schedule and descended on Alexandra to feed more than 200 children at Abangani eNkosini Children Home.
Dees Pillay, a service delivery manager at T-Systems, which is an ICT services outsourcing company, said as staff of the company, they had decided to forgo their end-of-the-year function at the Department of Water and Sanitation in order to do something for the less privileged members of the community.
Pillay said they drove around Alexandra and visited a couple of children’s home to assess their needs and capacities. At the end of the trip, he said they decided to settle for Abangani eNkosini as it had a large number of children in their care.
Pillay said the staff then decided to use the money they contributed for their party to the charitable cause. T-Systems then matched whatever money the workers had raised.
He said, “We bought the food for the special little people of this home, which comprised of buckets of tasty KFC chicken portions, mash and gravy, bread and rolls and goodie bags for the children to take away.”
Founder of the home, Portia Mongake, said she felt very honoured to have had the T-Systems people at her children’s home to put smiles in the little one’s faces during the festive season, which she described as a time for giving.
“In African societies, KFC is a special meal and I am grateful to them for having made this festive season so special for the children.:-)
“I wish I could have a long-term relationship with T-Systems where they can also look into the stationery and uniform requirements of the children.” Pillay replied that he was quite pleased to announce that he [Pillay] would adopt the home as a charity project of choice and would try on his personal capacity to lobby companies to support the home.
“You can now expect to see more of us [T-Systems employees] more often here. We have decided that this will not be a once-off project but one that ensures sustainability of the project on a yearly basis as we have just started,” Pillay said.
