Support blanket drive to make this winter warmer
The blanket drive is an ongoing project and people are also welcome to donate food items.
LOCAL resident, Keith van Jaarveldt has taken up a challenge to help a local NPO this winter by organising a blanket drive.
Keith is collecting blankets for a non-rofit organisation based in the Upper Highway area, called The Ladybird Foundation.
They are primarily a fundraising organisation, providing some financial, but mostly project-based assistance to existing charitable organisations and specific individuals, where a need has been recognised.
The organisation aims to encourage the surrounding communities to be involved in the social development and upliftment of these organisations, emphasizing social and community responsibility. With the ‘hand up – not a hand out’ philosophy, they hope to encourage community based responsibility and a self sustaining environment.
“We are all human and nobody wants to be cold during winter. Many do not have a choice, be it growing in poverty or by job loss,” he said. Keith said he is not doing this for any sort of recognition, this is who he is and how he thinks everybody should be.
“There is a little bit of ‘heromanity’ in all of us, and for every blanket or even food parcel that is issued, you are a hero to that person, besides the fact that it tends to warm up one’s heart,” he said.
The blanket drive is an ongoing project and people are also welcome to donate food items.
The drop off point is 35C Oppenheimer Street, Pinetown and Keith can be contacted on 031 709 1208.
