Pink Trees for Pauline exciting school challenge
Carol-Ann lost her mother and her grandmother, both named Pauline, to cancer
Here are a fun and exciting school challenge that all the schools in eMalahleni can take part in. Show that your heart cares and make your school pink. In 2012 the non-profit company ‘Pink Trees for Pauline’ was founded and one woman’s dream became a larger-than-life project which astounds every day. Carol-Ann van Jaarsveldt took the legacy of her mother and grandmother and turned it into an epic tale of hope, encouragement and belonging. Carol-Ann lost her mother and her grandmother, both named Pauline, to cancer. The ‘Pink Trees for Pauline’ initiative was then born, as each of us knows or is connected to, our own “Pauline”. To raise cancer awareness all the trees along the roads in Graaff-Reinet were wrapped in pink material. Then in 2012 Carol-ann van Jaarsveld, together with Adri van Nieuwenhuizen – a breast cancer survivor and Dr Pam Kerr, an Educational Psychologist – officially founded the organisation “Pink Trees for Pauline”. The vision Carol-ann once had is now the driving force of many people who are wrapping South Africa and Namibia in pink to signify new life during and after cancer. This is all for Cansa and Miss Teen Witbank 2020. So how does it work? You contact Clarinda on 083 951 2294 then you buy your pink clothes at R60 per 2m, once you have the pretty pink cloth, you decorate your trees. On Facebook tag Clarinda Swanepoel Miss Teen Witbank 2020 and Hoërskool Generaal Hertzog. The schools that have already taken part in the challenge is Laerskool Klipfontein and Hoërskool Generaal Hertzog.
