#Notinmyname provides comfort during the cold weather conditions
The South African Weather Service issued a warning alerting residents to expect the cold conditions to carry into Monday, which is unfortunate for the less privileged.
Mamelodi residents who are feeling the brunt of this week’s cold weather had a warm respite from the biting wind when they were served warm soup.
Founders of a civil rights movement, #Notinmyname international served warm soup and bread in its home town on Tuesday morning.
Recently the temperature has plummeted in Gauteng in the past few days to almost freezing as the cold front took its toll.
Themba Masango of the movement said: “As South Africa’s leading non-profit organisation on the ground, we felt it was vital and important to remember those who are in a less fortunate position than us.”
Masango said a warning of an approaching cold front can be devastating for the less privileged.
He said the soup kitchen was held in Mamelodi West section A3 accompanied by a gift of 1 000 loaves of bread to the residents.
#Notinmyname started in Mamelodi in 2017.
“Charity begins at home.
“We felt we needed to bring our partners on board to provide a soup kitchen to the neighbourhood where we grew up,” said Masango.
He said this was an act of love and compassion.
He said the organisation fed about 500 children in Mamelodi every Wednesday.
“This is a continuation of our brother’s keeper ethos,” he said.
He added the movement would love to further extend a helping hand through the provision of blankets, “so we encourage other forward-thinking South Africans to donate blankets, clothes and other such survival essentials”.
He said the soup kitchen project would run throughout winter and “we will be moving to some parts of Mamelodi East, Atteridgeville, Soshanguve and so on”.
“We call on all forward-thinking South Africans, those who have the means to please partner with us by donating food parcels, clothes and blankets this winter,” he said.
He quoted Martin Luther King: “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness”.
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