Get your Poppy this Saturday
The proceeds of the collection are utilised to assist the Moths to provide quality accommodation to the residents living at the Moth Cottages in Remembrance Avenue at an affordable cost
It is nearly time for the annual street- and charity collection by members of the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (MOTH).
This will take place at various shopping centres and malls around the city on November 9.
Residents of eMalahleni are urged to give generously when they see members and associates of the Moth assisted by residents of the Moth Sound Memory Cottages standing and sitting at the collection points.
The proceeds of the collection are utilised to assist the Moths to provide quality accommodation to the residents living at the Moth Cottages in Remembrance Avenue at an affordable cost.
The cottages currently accommodate 74 residents in 63 units.
A number of the residents only receive government pensions while the cottages receive no form of subsidy.
Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day owing to the tradition of the remembrance poppy) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.
The reason poppies are used to remember those who have given their lives in battle is because they are the flowers which grew on the battlefields after World War One ended.
