Welcome donation will assist Mama Dora’s cause
Mama Dorah Semeya founded the Shalate drop-in Centre and welcomes every child in the area that is in desperate need of food, clothes and shelter to join the drop-in centre.
POLOKWANE – Mama Dorah Semeya recently received a donation from Clover Limpopo branch that will help her to feed the many children she cares for.
Semenya is a loyal ambassador, as well as one of Clover’s beneficiaries and fondly known as Mama Africa within the Clover community. She lives in Seshego and founded the Shalate drop-in Centre, to which a variety of Clover products were donated to in an attempt to help her provide enough meals for the children at the centre.
Semenya aspires to be of great service to those in her community and she always goes above and beyond, to tend to the needs of everyone around her. She welcomes every child in the area that is in desperate need of food, clothes and shelter to join the drop-in centre.
“Due to the HIV/aids endemic in South Africa, many children are left orphaned or in the care of abusive relatives, careless guardians or grandparents too old to properly attend to their needs. I try to open my heart and my home to these children so that they can prosper,” Semenya said. She founded her centre in 2006 and put her primary teacher certificate to work, as she provides children in her care not only with a safe and loving home, but with the education they need to develop a good foundation as well.
Semenya also reaches out to many teenaged mothers, as she realises the large amount of teen pregnancies often leave young girls unprepared and ill-equipped to raise a child.
Her centre currently offers a safe haven to more than 120 children and she ensures all the kids have a healthy meal and regularly attends school.
“I want to protect children from all forms of abuse and in the community. I believe I provide hope to the hopeless,” she said and added that she believes that education is indeed the key to life and that knowledge is power.
If there is one thing Semenya can do perfectly well and with passion, it is to feed hungry children, which is something she does religiously every day of the week.
She, along with her helpers, prepares enough meals every day to feed more than 300 children on their way home from school. For many children it would be the only food they receive for the day.
