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Ashraful Aid helps hospice impacted in civil unrest with large R10 000 donation

MARLBORO – This comes as part of a R50 000 donation from the Shoprite Group to support the organisations relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

Marlboro-based humanitarian organisation Ashraful Aid recently handed over R10 000 worth of essential goods to Alex Hospice and Rehabilitation Centre to assist those in need.

According to the organisation’s executive director Moulana Suhail Wadee, many families like those at Alex Hospice were impacted during the social unrest in July last year and continue to feel the effects thereof.

Giving back to the community is just one part of how the organisation aims to better the lives of those living in and around Marlboro.

The Alex Hospice and Rehabilitation Centre are grateful for the donation of much need supplies from Ashraful Aid. Photo: Supplied

This comes as part of a R50 000 donation from the Shoprite Group to support the organisation’s relief efforts in KwaZulu-Natal as well as in Gauteng.

“With this support, Alex Hospice and Rehabilitation Centre now has more items easily available for their daily needs to assist terminally ill patients.

“We have also identified the needs of several other institutions nationwide and during the months of January and February we will disperse the rest of the R50 000 [that we] received.”

Volunteers from the Ashraful Aid organisation deliver the essential goods. <br />Photo: Supplied

Alex Hospice and Rehabilitation Centre was created after it was found that people with terminal and chronic ailments such as HIV/Aids were being neglected within the community.

Details: Ashraful Aid

www.ashrafulaid.org

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