Beauty queens reach out to Munsieville school
As part of Mr and Miss Munsieville's outreach efforts, the team recently handed over stationery and sanitary items to Diphalane Primary School.
Charity comes in all shapes and sizes and may touch people in different ways.
With schools having reopened after a lengthy holiday, many learners could use some extra help in getting ready for the year.
The young Whitney Mntambo, current Miss Township South Africa semi-finalist was organising the Mr and Miss Munsieville pageant in December when she reached out to the Mogale City Local Municipality (MCLM) in search of a venue. The hall would have cost R1 800 for the evening, which Whitney and the growing pageant couldn’t afford.
The two struck a deal and Whitney was asked to do something charitable for the community in exchange for using the hall. She decided on collecting stationery and sanitary products for Diphalane Primary School learners in Munsieville.
Sanitary pads were collected with help from Xolii Zintwana, personal assistant to the MCLM Youth Coordinator and founder of the XoliSpeaks Foundation.
We collect pads from a hospital in Johannesburg and donate them to different people in need. Whitney asked for a community hall and we told her to choose a school in her ward to help. The money from the ticket sales for Mr and Miss Munsieville was to be used to buy the stationery. We now want to start helping another school,” Xolii explained.
The two, along with some of the pageant’s participants, handed over sanitary items, pens, pencils, scissors, glue, book covers and more to ten Diphalane learners.
Principal Thabitha Mabatha expressed her heartfelt thanks to the young women and said the school and its learners had a great need for plastic covers, which Whitney and Xolii will try to address in the near future.
