West project keeps over 200 tummies full
Since the start of the national lockdown, many residents have joined hands to assist the needy in the different areas of Pretoria.
A project in the west of Pretoria is still continuing to help hundreds of less-fortunate family households with food parcels.
Since the start of the national lockdown, many residents have joined hands to assist the needy in the different areas of Pretoria.
Tanita Venter, along with seven other members from the Ek wil help project, cook and take food to less-fortunate families.
“I started planning on how to get donations for the project and decided if all fails, I will then start to cook in bulk. Currently, the team and I have been cooking for about 234 people a day, for the past week,” Venter said.
Venter said without sponsors they would only be able to supply those households with food parcels once a week, because of the shortage of meat, rice, wheat, vegetables and cleaning products.
“The total cost of the food parcels me and my team made came down to a total of R4 000,” Venter said.
Venter said her project consisted of nine groups divided in different areas of the west. CPF officials and former ward councillors also take part in helping the needy.
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“This makes it easy for my group because, not only do they identify the less-fortunate households but, they can also get their details by asking how many members stay in the house,” she said.
“Every day is a challenge for us with people often asking when we will stop by them. My answer to them is, ‘continue doing what you do until you cannot do it anymore’,” she said.
“Ek wil help started as something small to help people in need and has grown to where we are able to feed more than 200 people each day,” former ward councillor Elma Nel recently told Rekord.
She said the project was registered as a non-profit organisation and started during the first week of the national lockdown.
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Johan Cloete of Angels in Need, Monique Moolman, JP Viljoen, Elmarie Mathhysen and Lawrence Lee Thrope, who is a 13-year-old learner from the area, are part of the project.
Nel told Rekord that she and her team were in contact with other projects in the area.
“We remain in contact with each other to enable us to help the other one, should there be a shortage in something,” she said.
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