#GiveAJersey continues with their Friday donations
"We still do not have sponsors but we are pushing. We are getting a lot of support from various communities and we are using our own funds to further the initiative."
The organisation #GiveAJersey continues its initiative of donating jerseys to homes and poor families around Hammanskraal every Friday.
#GiveAJersey donated clothes and shoes when they visited Boikanyo mental and disabled children centre recently.
This is one of many centres which have received aid from this initiative led by the local youth.
The organisation has been donating jerseys to different homes every Friday, for the past five months.
One of the founders Goitseone Raseroka said he was inspired by a Facebook picture outside a store which read, “Need a coat? Take one. Want to help? Leave one”.
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“After seeing this, I was inspired to give jerseys to people who might need them the most. Luckily, I already had about 10 old jerseys at home so I called on my friends and started this movement.”
Raseroka said they used social media platforms to identify homes who might need help and they also used the same platforms to request for donations.
“We use Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram and share posts using #GiveAJersey. We post on Facebook and ask for homes/orphanages and families who might need such donations of clothes. That is how we choose the beneficiaries.
“We do not go door-to-door to ask for donations, we just post on social media, and whoever feels like giving or supporting, does so. We sometimes do not get donations and we use the little we have to donate.”
He said the initiative was growing day-by-day despite not having sponsors. “We sell hot dogs and cool drinks at sports grounds to raise money for transport when we go to donate.
“We still do not have sponsors but we are pushing. We are getting a lot of support from various communities and we are using our funds to further the initiative.”
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A caregiver from Kutlwano mental and disabled children centre Rakabe Boikanyo said the donations would go a long way to help the children at the centre.
“We want to thank them a lot and we wish they can continue to do a good job as some children do not have parents while others were abandoned at a young age.”
Rakabe said the centre housed 20 children from the age of four to 20.
Another beneficiary of Perseverance Rural Development Centre Tebogo Ranantswane thanked the young men and women who continued to help less-fortunate people.
“I wish they can continue to help others and we would like for them to come back.”
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