Mormon lends a helping hand to Siphumelele
The church organisation spent the day at the children’s home spring cleaning the house and sprucing up the garden
MORMON Helping Hands visited Siphumelele Children’s Home on Saturday where they spent the day cleaning up the home and tidying up the garden.
The Edleen home was treated to thorough spring cleaning when about 100 members of Mormon joined hands to freshen up the home and garden just in time for spring.
The windows of the house were washed and shined, the cupboards and wardrobes were cleaned, the tiles and the walls inside the house were washed, the light bulbs were changed and they fixed and fitted new doors.
Three new toilet seats were installed and the bathrooms got new shower curtains.
Outside, the garden was watered, drain pipes were fixed and weeds were removed. In addition, the swimming pool was cleaned, the grass was cut, and flower beds were cleaned and replanted. Helping Hands also added two more vegetables, beetroot and cabbage, to the home’s already blossoming vegetable garden.
The church donated some much-needed non-perishable food items and toilet paper. Big tins of sugar beans, rice, macaroni, samp and mealie meal, that can be stored for up to 10 years, were donated to the home.
“We will visit the home again to teach them how to cook this food,” Marilyn Nhlapo, public affairs director, said.
Some of the church’s members also painted the fence in Edleen which was recently erected by community members to block off crime in the area.
Mormon is an organisation started by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a church which has eight wards in Kempton on Monument Road, Birch Acres, Tembisa and Centurion.
Coba Keizer, a member of the church and Mormon, said they are planning on having a long-term working relationship with the home, and will be back to help them with certain things such as setting up a computer room for the children.
“The kids have a lot of school projects that require them to do research on the internet and to type out their assignments, so they need access to computers. There is a Wendy house here at the home that can be converted into a computer room for the children,” Keizer explained.
The organisation would like to thank Keizer as the ward Mormon Helping Hands representative for facilitating and putting everything together to ensure the success of the project.
