SBCF receives donation from Racing Association
Other recipients were five local primary schools, The Mossie, Forest Hill, Park Senior, Robertsham and Rosettenville Central, that each received R30 000.
SOUTHERN Business Community Forum (SBCF) was one of the recipients of monetary donations from the Racing Association at Turffontein Racecourse on November 16.
They received R50 000 that will go towards their feeding scheme in the South.
Other recipients were five local primary schools, The Mossie, Forest Hill, Park Senior, Robertsham and Rosettenville Central, that each received R30 000.
Businessmen and women from Monte Carlo sponsored the main race on the day – Monaco Million Maiden Spirit – which coincided with International Jockeys’ Challenge, to raise funds for SA children, schools and SBCF.
Meyer Benjamin from SBCF said: “The SBCF would like to say a sincere thank you to the Racing Association for the very generous donation of R50 000.
“This will be used in December towards a feeding scheme to bring Christmas cheer to all the underprivileged people in the South.”
SBCF, which is chaired by Shalin Bidassey-Manilal, has done so much in the South in the past couple of years.
With their feeding scheme, this year alone, they have distributed over 23 000 sandwiches and 340 loaves of bread to schools.
Dog food and blankets were donated to the local SPCA. More than 600 hamper buckets were donated to underprivileged people, churches, old age homes, community policing forums and University of Johannesburg students.
Toothpaste, powder soap etc. were donated to SBCF by Anne Ebrahim from the Baby Sanctuary which was given out to people from Riverlea and places of care in Doornfontein.
“Ipop donated a trailer to Guardian Angels Security (executive member, Steve Dwarika) for assistance and management of scenes. We have developed a small first-aid kit for dog poisoning.
“It’s not just humans we are taking care of, but animals as well. We have a substation at the back of Ipop, it had safety concerns and was in ruins. We have fenced it off and cleaned it.
“Drugs and crime are ongoing problems and we need to raise the bar,” explained Bidassey-Manilal.
The forum would like to have licence plate recognition (LPR) cameras on strategic places in the South; they need to install two on Main Street, Rosettenville.
It costs R25 000 to set up one camera and this will help to flag down many stolen vehicles. It will help the enforcement agencies a lot, as they do not have these facilities.
It also conducted events at the Rosettenville Clinic, where they collected tyres, made them into chairs and tables and donated them to the clinic and old age homes in the area. Teaming up with the Southern ECD Forum the clinic was uplifted by planting and giving the front a whole new look.
