Pink Trees for Pauline is a non-profit company that was founded in 2012 by Carol-Ann van Jaarsveld from Graff-Reinet, with the help of Adri van Niewenhuizen.
Thabitha Lekganyane (Mall of the North, marketing assistant) at one of the trees wrapped in pink cloth as part of the Pink Trees for Pauline project aimed at raising awareness and money for cancer.
POLOKWANE – Visitors to Mall of the North will notice that all the trees on the premises have pink cloth wrapped around them.
This is a project by the the women of Dameskring in the city aimed at creating awareness of and raising money for cancer.
Pink Trees for Pauline is a non-profit company that was founded in 2012 by Carol-Ann van Jaarsveld from Graff-Reinet, with the help of Adri van Niewenhuizen. Carol-Ann lost both her mother and granmother to cancer and both women were named Pauline. The company aims to unite people, businesses and towns around the world for a single day each year in order to improve the lives of those living with cancer.
Residents can buy swathes of pink cloth for R20 per metre from the Pink Trees for Pauline stall at Mall of the North to wrap around trees in their gardens as well as the trees in front of their houses.
The project continues until October 18 and all the money raised in Polokwane will go towards Cansa Polokwane.
Ritascha Theunissen and Janty Beukes wrap pink cloths around the trees at Mall of the North as part of the Pink Trees for Pauline project, aimed at raising awareness of and collecting money for cancer.
The 2014 leaders of Laerskool Pietersburg-Oos assisted the women from Polokwane’s Dameskring to swathe all the trees at Mall of the North in pink cloth. They are Mia Schulenburg, Ritascha Theunissen, Janty Beukes, Zydra Hatting, Cara Coetzee and Marischa Theunissen.
Thabitha Lekganyane (Mall of the North, marketing assistant) at one of the trees wrapped in pink cloth as part of the Pink Trees for Pauline project aimed at raising awareness and money for cancer.
Members of Polokwane’s Dameskring, Ina van der Merwe, Magda Thiart and Annemarie Bakker, at their stall at Mall of the North where anyone can purchase swathes of pink cloth to wrap their trees in, with the purpose of supporting Cansa Polokwane. raising awareness and money for cansa.
These women from Polokwane’s Dameskring are responsible for Mall of the North’s pink trees. Anjah de Nysschen and behind her are Annemarie Bakker, Hannelie Kruger and Amanda Schnehage.
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