North NGOs benefit from local hospital
The centres accommodate young girls who are in their pubertal stages who do not have the luxury to afford basic hygiene essentials like sanitary pads and toiletries.
A Soshanguve private hospital recently donated much-needed basic hygiene essentials to two NGOs.
Botshilu private hospital and BMR Family Health Clinics donated to Xola disability centre and Good Hope community centre.
The centres accommodate young girls who are in their pubertal stages who do not have the luxury to afford basic hygiene essentials like sanitary pads and toiletries.
The hospital raised donations of 640 sanitary pads, toiletries, cleaning and detergents.
Xola centre founder Salome Njenga said the goods were a blessing from God as the centre has been struggling.
“We are thankful for the donations and the children are happy and they are smelling wonderful. This has been of much help.”
Njenga said the centre catered for 46 children, 21 girls and 25 boys.
Good Hope community centre founder Mary Lwate said the hospital should continue blessing others like they have done for them.
“No amount of words can describe how grateful we are for the donations. Thank you so much.”
The hospital’s stakeholder relations manager Boitumelo Mphake said the donations were in place of their annual fun walk, which they had to forgo this year, due to the global Covid-19 pandemic.
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“The idea behind this donation drive was initiated by Dr Reshoketsoe Rampedi, after realising the financial impact that Covid-19 left on many families and organisations.
“It is disheartening to know that many of them are not able to afford to buy their monthly essentials, because a lot of companies and institutions that were previously sponsoring them were forced to cut down their budgets on sponsorships and donations,” Mphake said.
“Every girl deserves the right to dignity and a decent life.”
Mphake said the management and staff of Botshilu private hospital and BMR Family Health Clinics echoed the same sentiments as they strongly believed that it took one family at a time to make a difference in the community.
“We are truly grateful to everyone who joined hands with us in continuing Mr Mandela’s legacy by making donations of sanitary pads, toiletries, cleaning and washing detergents,” she said.
Rampedi said her father’s passion of uplifting the community motivated her to make a difference in other people’s lives.
“My father Dr Jacky Rampedi has been working selflessly and tirelessly to give back to the community by making sure that everyone has an opportunity to experience private healthcare right on their doorsteps and also creating employment for a vast number of families in and around Soshanguve,” she said.
“With this in mind, we saw it fitting to continue to follow in his footsteps to give back to the community by affording young girls the freedom to be comfortable and confident when on their menstrual periods, preserving their dignity.
“To make a difference in someone’s life, you do not have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or perfect, you simply just have to care,” Rampedi said.
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