Silethithemba helps families in eMbalenhle for Christmas
Some told us that they lost their jobs during hard Lockdown and they don’t have anything to put on table.
Christmas came early for about 70 eMbalenhle families.
The Silethithemba community development organisation and Absa Bank supplied these families with food parcels on Saturday, December 11.
According to Mr Sipho Sithole, director of Silethithemba, they asked Absa for help with food parcels that they wanted to distribute to the identified destitute families.
“We visited some homes in our township and saw some families are so poverty stricken, that they don’t even know what they are going to eat during Christmas.
“Some told us that they lost their jobs during hard lockdown and they don’t have anything to put on table,” said Mr Sithole.
That broke his heart.
“We decided to do something about it because some of us also came from poor families and we know what is like to be impoverished.
We also have programmes to help children from destitute families with school uniforms and other school necessities,” said Mr Sithole.
Ms Mavis Ntuli, Secunda Absa branch manager, said they received a request from the organisation and they responded.
