GALLERY: PTA learners donate water to Cape Town residents

Hamilton Primary School learners have taken it upon themselves to help residents desperate for water in Cape Town.

The learners said on Thursday afternoon that when they heard of the plight of the Capetonians who are without water, they felt compelled to help.

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Total Braamfontein has teamed up with Gift of the Givers Foundation, in order to collect water for the distribution of Cape Town.
*Collection point – Total Braamfontein Garage pic.twitter.com/BjgyT7eTar

— Total Braamfontein (@Total_Braam) February 15, 2018

They collected more than 600 5-litre bottles of water for NPO Gift of the Givers Foundation to distribute to stricken Cape Town.

The foundation is the largest disaster relief organisation of African origin on the continent.

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Collected bottles of water for #DayZero #CapeTownDrought from Khatija Mayet in Benoni.

Keep it coming!

— Gift of the Givers (@GiftoftheGivers) February 13, 2018

“We care about other people and our teachers and the principal have taught us that we need to care and help one another,” said Hlamulo Hlungwane, a grade 3 learner.

Hlungwane said the situation in Cape Town, where hundreds of people were surviving on little water, had saddened him.

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Well done to Aveng Mining who kindly donated bottled water that was left over from its stand at the Mining Indaba to the Gift of the Givers, a disaster relief organisation, in support of Cape Town drought relief #Avengmining #Giftofthegivers pic.twitter.com/Fz7u7nlyVm

— Aveng (@Aveng_Group) February 9, 2018

“The reason we are helping is that people of Cape Town don’t have water, we have water so we need to help them,” said Hlungwane.

Another learner Reaoboka Mokgohlwa invited more people to donate.

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#SaveWater #EverydropCounts pic.twitter.com/UAH5p6ta9c

— Water&SanitationRSA (@DWS_RSA) February 9, 2018

“If we donate, we can save lives,” Mokgohlwa said.

School spokesperson Margie Carmody said the school was doing its bit to help drought-stricken residents in Cape Town.

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Let us all reduce our water consumption. #SaveWater @DWS_RSA @NationalCoGTA @missearth_sa @OperationSA1 @CityofCT pic.twitter.com/x63jX1JgKd

— Yusuf Abramjee (@Abramjee) February 12, 2018

“The learners really made a great effort, we are proud of them as the school. And we are glad that as a school we were able to help,” she said.

The water and sanitation department recently urged Cape Town residents to save water to push Day Zero further back.

Day Zero is the day on which the Cape Town taps are projected to run dry.

“Day Zero is now only expected on 4 June,” said the department.

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As Cape Town counts down to 'Day Zero,' officials and experts worry about severe unrest and outbreaks of disease. https://t.co/ju6jfgknuR

— Graeme Bethune (@Graeme_Bethune_) February 15, 2018

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