From cookies to services, residents’ hearts and hands are open
“We are grateful, everything is going well now, everyone is healthy, the heavenly Father kept us,”
Both residents and organisations in Centurion and Pretoria have opened both their hearts and wallets in helping the vulnerable during the Covid-19 pandemic.
A local old age home in Gerhardsville in Centurion, Huis Oase, pleaded for an oxygenator for its residents of their Laudium Covid Care group.
A local sports club, Jacaranda Athletic Club “immediately got involved and pledged to donate the needed equipment,” said spokesperson, Fanie Vosloo.
“The Phobians Athletic Club teamed up with its sister club, Jacaranda, to assist, and followed suit. The members and sponsors managed to furnish us with not one, but two oxygenators. We were overwhelmed with joy,” he said.
“We are grateful, everything is going well now, everyone is healthy, the heavenly Father kept us,” he said.
Kiepersol Retirement Service Centre in Eldoraigne, Centurion, Kiepersol also received much-needed help from community services, as well as from Lancet Laboratories.
Manager and spokesperson of Kiepersol, Isabel Nel, said they were grateful to Skitterblink Cleaning Services who cleaned and disinfected the centre free of charge.
“As well as for DA ward councillor Cindy Billson’s intervention in the affair, especially when Lancet Laboratories also tested the elderly for the virus for free,” she said.
In yet another instance of generosity in Pretoria, Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool played a vital role in supporting Jakaranda and Louis Botha children’s homes.
CEO, Charlene Grobler, said the pandemic had a huge impact on the homes’ budgets.
“Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool showed exceptional initiative when they supported Nuwe Hoop School for learners with learning disabilities by buying cookies from them and donating them to us to sell,” Grobler said.
Annalette du Plessis, grade 10 learner at the school, said the initiative was proposed when learners from Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool were tasked with a charity project.
“There is a wonderful lady at Nuwe Hoop School’s kitchen, Nannie Lombard, who noticed the need among many of the learners since the onset of the pandemic. She gets up at four o’clock in the morning and starts baking to help learners from the school,” Du Plessis said.
“We thought it would be great to support her in her exceptional effort, which has had a magical effect,” Du Plessis said.
“With our project, we bought cookies from Nuwe Hoop School to the amount of R50 000, and donated R10 000’s worth of cookies to the children’s homes. It is an ongoing project: it did not stop there, and I am very excited about it,” Du Plessis concluded.
Ina Kotze, public media liaison for the children’ homes, indicated that the children’s homes desperately need vitamin boosters.
“Vitamin boosters such as Vitamine C, D3 and Zinc are desperately needed to keep our children healthy,” Kotze said.
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