New industrial pots help to feed more homeless people
The donation of Industrial pots and a gas stove will help Thandanani Drop Inn Centre to better its nutritional support services for the homeless.
A local organisation has said that the donation of industrial pots and a gas stove it has received would help it deliver meals to the homeless on time.
Thandanani Drop Inn Centre, which cares for the homeless in Mamelodi, recently received a donation of 10 industrial pots and a gas stove from Insync Solutions.
Kate Kekana of the centre said the pots would assist in improving Thandanani’s nutritional support services.
She said cooking for the homeless would be quicker, because “we now have enough pots”.
“We were cooking with small pots, and that alone used to consume time because we had to take turns cooking meals,” said Kekana.
The organisation feeds 120 homeless people three meals a day from five locations around Mamelodi.
“We are grateful for the donation, and the industrial pots will help us finish cooking and deliver on time.”
She said the number of feeding scheme beneficiaries would sometimes grow to 250 people as residents joined the queue for a plate of food.
The organisation feeds the homeless a healthy breakfast, lunch and supper from Monday to Saturday.
Centre social worker Morongwa Mogatlane said Thandanani does not only feed the homeless. “We also do their laundry and ensure they are bathed too”.
“Thandanani has a laundry service, which has been available at the centre for a couple of years, as well as showers and bathrooms,” said Magatlane.
“We also have a mobile laundry to take the service to where the homeless are.”
She said the centre’s core programmes are for the homeless and drug addicts, and are funded by the Department of Social Development.
“We assist the homeless and drug addicts with psychosocial needs, whereby we provide meals for them, assist with family reunification, offer referrals to rehabilitation centres and help them apply for IDs and social grants.”
She said the goal was to get the homeless to understand that the centre was there for them and cared for them by connecting them to service providers and helping them apply for unemployment social grants.
Kekana said the centre recently launched a service to bring washing machines to the homeless to do their laundry.
“They were happy and brought even more clothes for washing, but time was not on our side, so we are planning more laundry days.”
The centre is situated next to Rethabile Community Hall in Mamelodi East Section SNS.
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