Embo home receives food and clothing donations
Giving back is what the organisation does throughout the year, not just for this month as its Mandela month.
LEGAL Aid SA, Pinetown branch visited Tholuthando Children’s Home in Embo to make a generous donation of clothes and food and spend time with the children.
As an organisation they are about serving the community, focused on legal representation but one of their values is ‘ubuntu’ and it extends to helping in other ways.
Baboo Brijlal, regional HR manager, said, “We are not very corporate in terms of funding, which is why we teach our employees about the importance of ‘ubuntu’.”
All the food and clothing that was donated came from the employees pockets and they challenged all other public sector organisations to do the same.
Bongani Mahlangu, regional community practitioner, said, “This is also a great opportunity to let people know about our services.”
Legal Aid gives legal aid or makes legal aid available to indigent people within its financial means and provides legal representation at State expense.
Giving back is what the organisation does throughout the year, not just for this month, which is Mandela month.
Mahlangu, said, “As much as this falls under our Corporate Social Investment (CSI) projects we take it beyond that and encourage ‘ISI’ individual social investment,. Each employee must be able to contribute to their community.”
