Community provides masks for elderly in Schoemansdal
Community members in Schoemansdal have come forward with an initiative to provide the elderly with reusable masks for free, after three positive cases of Covid-19 were confirmed.
Lydia Sono, community builder and winner of Mpumalanga Sunrise Women’s Awards: Humanitarian Category, started the initiative when her friend, Thabang Meyiwa, approached her.
“We decided to go out and ask for donations,” Sono told the media.
“We managed to raise enough money to buy 30 metres of material and a 14-year-old boy volunteered to sew the masks for us for free.”
Sono said that she knew Junior Mbelekwane liked sewing, so she approached him to find out if he wanted to help in the initiative.
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Phumzile Mnisi, Junior’s grandmother and a fashion designer in Schoemansdal, helped them to choose the material and to design and make the masks.
The initiative was also featured on the news, on Newzroom Afrika.
Sono is reaching out to the community in light of the president’s announcement urging the public to wear masks.
“We will need to make more masks so that we can provide for more people,” Sono said.
Anyone interested in helping out can contact Sono on 060-681-9435.
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