Charities to benefit at the Spring Fest

This year the Spring Fest will support four charities from the Kensington community.

The Kensington Resident and Ratepayer Association is appealing to the community to support these charities with donations.

The charities are Dewetshof Retirement Village, Kensington Lions, Strathyre Girls Home and Aim Centre.

Each charity will have a drop box at the entrance points where people can drop off the donation at the Spring Fest on September 3.

The Advancement to Independence through Movement (Aim) Centre is a workshop for the physically disabled in Kensington.

The workshop was established in 1986 and enables work activities, skills training and personal development for people with disabilities.

The centre also provides physiotherapy, art and literacy classes.

They also provide a daily balanced meal for the participants.

Participants are involved in projects which include assembling and packaging of products. The aim of the project is to alleviate poverty and generate income for the participants.

Aim Centre is in need of sewing items, tinned food, stationery, cleaning chemicals, household items which the centre can sell in its charity shop, books, clothes to sell at the second-hand shop in Darras Centre and art and craft supplies.

Strathyre Girls Home was established in 1921 as a home for displaced mothers with children in Germiston.

In 1934 the name Strathyre, meaning ‘little haven’, was adopted when the children’s home was transferred to a house in Troyville.

The house continued to function until 1968 when it was moved to its current facility on 11th Avenue in Kensington.

The girl’s home is one of the caring Ministries of The Salvation Army.

Its primary function and mission are to provide a secure, caring and loving home environment in which the children’s past hurts are addressed and where a spirit of hope for the future is encouraged and nurtured.

The children are committed to the Salvation Army’s care through the children’s court due to varying degrees of abuse, neglect, poverty, abandonment or incapacity of their caregivers.

The home currently houses 47 girls, ranging from three to 18 years old.

The home receives a subsidy from the government of R2 660 per child per month. The money received from the government is not enough to run the home.

The home is in need of groceries, cleaning detergents, house ware, toiletries, face cloths, stationery, grey pants, white ankle socks, black lace up shoes size eight to 12, black pantyhose, netball kits, netballs, takkies sizes eight to 12, indoor netball nets, chess boards, soccer balls and shoes.

Kensington Lions Club has a passion for serving others and giving hope to those in need.

The club was established in 2014 and has done wonderful things for the community.

Lions Club International is the largest service organisation in the world, consisting of 1.4 million volunteers. Kensington Lions members are full-time employees who volunteer their spare time over weekends and in the evenings.

The club’s focus and mission is assisting community members in need. They have four service areas that Lions Clubs International focuses on. These are hunger, youth, environment and sight.

They try to alleviate hunger through food parcels and the youth have the opportunity to become involved and help save the environment through planting trees.

They need toiletries for men and women, books, stationery and any non-perishable food items.

De Wetshof Retirement Village in Kensington is a municipality owned retirement village. It provides accommodation for the elderly who survives on pension.

They need toiletries for men and women, any non-perishable food items, blankets and clothes.

The Kensington Spring Fair was established in 1990 and this year residents will welcome the return of this event for the 26th year.

The Spring Fest is always held on the first Sunday of September at Rhodes Park.

Contact Modise on 081 257 1705 or email events@krra.org.za, chairman@krra.org.za or enquiries@krra.org.za

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