Big party for Pango Camp children

The Retire Rich and Happy team recently held a birthday party and although the employees enjoyed the day, the main focus was on the children they wanted to spoil.

Every year the company holds an outreach on its birthday, and this year they joined hands with Ope Arms to host a birthday party for children from the Pango Camp in Munsieville. There were about 40 children and 10 grown-ups who partied with them.

Frikkie van Rooyen from the company explained that although the day started off in cold weather, it turned out to be an excellent day for all. He said the children arrived at the Môrester camping ground ready to play and party.

There were four different stalls for the children – face-painting, a photo booth, boeresport and lastly, a fishing-for-prizes stall. The children rotated between these stalls in their different age groups and afterwards everyone enjoyed the jumping castle and a slip-and-slide.

They held an Easter egg hunt with the children and every child received a birthday gift, had some birthday cake and a boerewors roll.

Frikkie said anonymous donors also contributed with extra surprises on the day.

Burg Studio joined the team and did some radio interviews with the children between 10am and 12am.

He said the owner of the camping ground went through so much trouble to make the day perfect, and even built a fire for them and the children to keep warm.

They want to give a special thank you to Lourens Oberholzer, the executive officer of Retire Rich and Happy who makes it possible for them to do projects like these every year; to all the employees who gave of their own time to help; all the sponsors and everyone who donated; as well as the children who joined them.

Frikkie said he noticed how the children particularly enjoyed the warm showers after spending a day playing in the water.

The team from Ope Arms even had left-over food and presents to hand out to other children as well.