Bread clips changing lives
“Cathcart High is a shining example of how a community can work together to change somebody’s life,”
Bread clips have changed the lives of three cerebral palsy sufferers in Pretoria.
With the help of Polystyrene Packaging Council (PSPC), the clips are collected, recycled, and the funds raised used to buy wheeelchairs.
In total, 80 sufferers of cerebral palsy have benefited from the project in the last few months.
Director of PSPC Adri Spangenberg said this project called Breadtags for Wheelchairs was run with the support of coordinator Mary Honeybun and the Sweetheart Foundation.
She said the clips were made from high impact polystyrene (HIPS) which was highly recyclable.
“We are amazed at the growth of this project as volunteers from all ages and walks of life become involved in collecting these bread clips.”
She said the organisation had more than 200 collection points around the country and with the help of SASKO Pioneer Foods, Dischem and CE Mobility, the project had grown.
Spangenberg said SASKO Pioneer Foods had pledged its support to the project for a second year by offering to collect bread clips from outlying areas.
She said Dis-chem pharmacies and CE Mobility were helping by selling wheelchairs on discount to the project.
One of the most recent recipients of a wheelchair “purchased” with bread clips was Xoliswa Yabo, a young woman from the Daliwe Township in Eastern Cape who was born with a speech impediment and without the use of her legs.
Cathcart High School donated the wheelchair to Yabo after learning of her plight and decided to collect bread clips to change her life.
“Cathcart High is a shining example of how a community can work together to change somebody’s life,” said Spangenberg.
The school collected 271 kg of bread clip which was sent to a recycling plant in Cape Town.
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