Khusel’ Ingane Support Team in Ivory Park gets support
The food garden has been existence for over six years, serving the needy school children whom they feed after school.
On September 21, The South African Red Cross Society, in partnership with 24 Carrots and Land Rover, expanded their Hope Garden Project by building a cooking spot, repainting of containers and installations of windows and doors at Khusel’ Ingane Support Team (KIST) in Ivory Park.
Mmapadi Kekana, of South African Red Cross Society, said the main idea of the campaign is to help the vulnerable and people living with disabilities to have a secure and clean place to eat and also to help the KIST community garden to reach their goal.
KIST’s chairperson, Isaac Kobo, said their food garden has been existence for over six years, serving the needy school children whom they feed after school.
He said they are grateful to what the organisations have done and KIST hopes to expand their reach to assist all needy members of the community.
Secretary of KIST, Charles Njapa, said they were given seedlings, compost soil for planting and the organisations painted their surroundings and encouraged KIST to continue with their work in helping the vulnerable in the community.
“We thank the donors for what they did for us and encourage them to also assist other NGOs that are working to ease the plight in the community.
“We plead to the community to take part in this community work.
“We need to join hands in fighting poverty,” said Njapa.
Jaguar Land Rover SA Sponsorship manager, Tina Pienaar-Smit, said they have been working with Red Cross Society on such projects for over three years.
“We started with Land Rover Hope Boxes and we have now extended the programme to Land Rover Hope Gardens. We saw the cooking facilities that they have and we decided to build them a braai place,” said Pienaar-Smit.
Beneficiaries were presented with presents and boerewors was served to everyone who attended the event. Pienaar-Smit added that the event was also done as part of Heritage Day celebrations.
Jaguar Land Rover SA public relations officer, Izak Louw, said it is fantastic to see that donated vegetables are growing and they came back to centre to celebrate their heritage with the Land Rover Hope Gardens beneficiaries.
“We want to come back here and really make a difference, not just donate money,” said Louw.
Asked if there are other areas where Jaguar Land Rover SA is planning to assist the community, Louw said he thinks there are a lot of initiatives where they could get into but he emphasised that they started with the Land Rover Hope Gardens and they want to focus in that area to make a big difference.
