Local donates food, clothes to help the needy
Dimpho said they are especially assisting families that lost everything they owned in shack fires.
Going to bed on an empty stomach has led a Mamelodi woman to start an organisation aimed at helping others in need.
Kokwa Dimpho Foundation was formed by Mmapula Moyaba (55), known to the community as Kokwa Dimpho, from extension 11, Mamelodi East.
Dimpho said the organisation helps needy families in and around Mamelodi with food, clothes and old furniture.
She said she started the organisation because she hated seeing people suffer and going to bed with empty stomachs.
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“We have so many families in Mamelodi and surrounding areas that desperately need help and to help them the organisation desperately need donations of clothes,” said Kokwa Dimpho.
“I grew up in a needy family and we depended a lot on neighbours to help us with food and clothes.”
She said Kokwa Dimpho Foundation is a non-profit organisation which was started in 2017 assisting many families in Mamelodi, but was only registered in 2018.
“I rather share every little thing that I have with a neighbour or a stranger, rather than see someone go to bed without having eaten,” she said.
Kokwa Dimpho is well-known in the community for assisting the needy and people always refer needy people to her place. Sometimes she pays them personal visits.
Dimpho said they are especially assisting families that lost everything they owned in shack fires.
“The foundation also assists disability families and also with counselling,” she said.
Recently the foundation came to the rescue of a family in Mamelodi with clothes and food.
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Dimpho said they even helped reunite a family in Mamelodi East and helped to bring back the furniture that was taken from the elderly mother’s house.
She pleaded with local businessmen to help with food and the community members who have clothes they no longer need to donate to the organisation.
She also helps children with school uniforms.
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