Help NGO get back on its feet
The Pinetown and Highway Child and Family Welfare Society serves more than one million people in the community and needs your help to continue its services.
THE recent break in at the Pinetown and Highway Child and Welfare Society had a devastating impact on its resources and it needs the Highway communities help to restore it.
“After the last break in we spent our own money to install the new security systems throughout the building, finances which we could ill afford and would have been used instead to help the needy,” said Nirmilla Pather, director of the Society.
The society needs:
Funds to repair the equipment that was damaged during the break in.
The cabling and networking system needs to be repaired and reinstalled.
The safe needs to be replaced.
The security gates and doors need to be replaced.
The wall that was damaged needs to be repaired.
The gifts purchased for underprivileged children, and those for the members of the board (who work voluntarily for the Society) need to be replaced.
“At the beginning of each year we purchase small gifts for the volunteers and the companies that help us out throughout the year, as they all work for free and we have to say thank you to them. What made me even more sick was when I saw the robbers had broken into one of the cabinets and stole children’s toys,” said Pather.
Should a bank be willing to open a special disaster fund account for the Society, or should any community member or company wish to make a monetary donation, contact Nalini Munian or Nirmilla Pather on 031 701 3288.
