Christmas Clothes & Food Appeal:
As we gear up for the Christmas season and there is that hustle and bustle when we’re shopping at the malls, let’s give a thought to all those less fortunate to us!
Mdantsane is the 2nd largest township after Soweto and now houses 600,000 black South Africans who grapple daily with the challenges of unemployment, poverty, crime, and rampant diseases like tuberculosis and AIDS. Its rows of modest homes line street after street in the rolling hills outside a small industrial port city in the Eastern Cape Province.
What may seem like something small and insignificant to you, could really put a smile on someone else’s face this Christmas. Just as many hardened criminals and violent people live in Mdantsane, are there that many innocent people who re searching for something to believe in or just that hope that someone cares.
Hilltop Empowerment Centre are doing a collection for our volunteers, their communities and the children of Mdantsane.
You are welcome to participate by showing you care and donating any clothing items and food items or money which we will buy food in bulk or use to sponsor their football team Youth United.
You would also be welcome to join us for the handover, which will take place on the Hilltop Empowerment Centre Farm in the Hanover Village, near King Wiliams Town, where we will be doing training and development from 10- 12 December 2008. The Handover will be done on 12 December and it will end in a mini celebration of African Culture where we will present the donation to the local volunteers who will distribute it to their community.
Contact Person: Manisha Ramdhin ; funkymani@gmail.com, 0832250817
Possible Food Items:
Canned Tuna, Canned Beans, Canned corn, canned meat, canned vegetables
Bags of Maize, Bags of Rice, Bags of Samp, Bags of Beans
Biscuits, sweets, cookies, toys, stationery, milk, flour
Anything which you feel would bring a smile to someone this Christmas;-)
Our Goal is to collect atleast 500kg of food and also various clothing items which we could give as gifts.
