The Good Samaritan of Homelake
'It pains me to see people who are trying to earn a living going hungry and feeling helpless.'
Despite being unemployed for more than five years, a Good Samaritan from Homelake won’t be stopped from feeding the waste pickers.
Every week since 2018, Sabata Maila, 49, has been committed to preparing a decent meal of soup, porridge and relish made from meaty bones for more than 50 hungry waste pickers through Sabstone’s Kitchen, his own small business.
He explained that he and his wife, Amanda Spelman, came up with the idea when waste pickers outside their house kept asking for something to eat.
Maila said he is willing to help those waste pickers who are trying to put food on the table by pushing heavy trolleys and struggling on the streets.
He admitted that it could get quite costly; especially during the hard lockdown he can’t afford to do his good deed every day, adding that if he could, he gladly would.
He said if each and every community member could do the same once a week, very few will ever go to bed hungry.
He thanked Killarney Butchery in Randfontein for donating the bones he uses in his recipes.
