Support pledged for Mamelodi girls and school garden
Grades 6 and 7 learners at N’wa-Vangani Primary will benefit from a six-month sanitary pad commitment. The visit also launched a food gardening programme aimed at supporting learners and surrounding community members.
Schoolgirls from N’wa-Vangani Primary School in Mamelodi East will now attend their classes in comfort.
This follows after the members of Ward 18 Umkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP), accompanied by Andile Mngxitama, an MKP Member of Parliament, donated sanitary pads for schoolgirls and started the school food gardening programme on February 27.
He said that they were there to make sure that all learners are able to go to school every day, without hygiene concerns.
The donation is also part of the party’s commitment to giving back to the community of Mamelodi and the school.
“We chose the school because the girl child faces a challenge every month… whether to attend school or not when that time of the month comes,” Mngxitama said.
“The party has committed to providing sanitary pads for the young girls for the next six months.”
He added that as part of the party’s programme for land use, they will be developing food gardens in every school.
The school principal had also donated ground at the school to help the party start the school food gardening programme, which will benefit both learners and community members.
School principal Jerry Maluleka thanked the members of the MKP in Ward 18 on behalf of the school.
Maluleka said the day was as special for the school as it marked the first time the school had a visitor from Parliament.
“The visitor, together with his members, has committed to help the school by donating sanitary pads for the grades 6 and 7 learners for the next six months,” said Maluleka.
Maluleka said the relationship they have started between the MKP and the school should continue for a long time.
Semakaleng Mlangeni, the fundraiser for the MKP in Ward 18, said the response from Mngxitama was quick, and he left his duties to come to Mamelodi in support of the school.
Mlangeni said Mngxitama had donated his own money to buy the sanitary pads and had also promised to buy garden tools to help start the school food garden.
“The learners were taught about what is happening monthly with their bodies, and we don’t want to see school girls missing out on schooling every month because of menstruation,” closed Mlangeni.
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