North families receive food relief
The organisation donated food parcels including sanitary towels, hand sanitizers, 12kg mealie meal, a pack of 2kg sugar, tinned beans and fish, cooking oil and other essential food supplies.
Ga-Rankuwa families received food parcels from local non-profit organisation We Are One last week.
The organisation donated food parcels including sanitary towels, hand sanitizers, 12kg mealie meal, a pack of 2kg sugar, tinned beans and fish, cooking oil and other essential food supplies.
It handed out 50 such food parcels to residents struggling to make ends meet and unable to afford necessities during the national lockdown.
“We started this donation drive to offer help where it is needed,” said We Are One founder organisation Kabelo Malema.
Malema said the organisation identified which households needed assistance on food relief and decided to lend a helping hand to them.
“We knew that our donations will make a huge difference, every single food parcel helped at least one family,” he said.
“We are proud to put smiles of hope on these families’ faces.”
The organisation raised funds on their own.
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“We used our own money to put together the food parcels and we contributed as much as we can afford to help the families,” said Malema.
Since the national lockdown started, the organisation also donated free masks, hand sanitiser and food parcels to an old age home in Mabopane and they also donated food to local residents.
“We are proud of the work we do to help communities and build relationships with them,” he said.
“We are aware that many of our community members are living in fear of hunger, because they have been unemployed since the lockdown was implemented. We wanted to show them that we care for them.”
He said their organisation will continue its work even after the lockdown.
“We want to see a change here in Ga-Rankuwa and to share the little we have by helping out wherever help is needed.
“For our next donation drive, we are going to donate sanitary towels to 10 local schools in the area,” concluded Malema.
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