This after a donation of blankets and sweets to help keep the men warm and give them energy as they waited patiently for anyone to engage them for jobs.
Some of the beneficiaries, who were inadequately dressed for the chilly winter morning, expressed gratitude at the donation they said was a timely Godsent gift at this time of year. The donors included children from Absic School in Marlboro, who donated blankets as part of building them up to be good and caring future leaders.
Issac Lacki, a motivational speaker, said the gesture was also a basic human instinct and commitment to help other fellow human beings in need.
“It’s everyone’s duty to give and share from the wealth that one may have and not to hoard selfishly. The more one is charitable through giving, the more one is blessed with more wealth in the future.”
Lacki said the initiative would develop children’s qualities of selflessness, empathy and sensitivity to the plight of the poor.
“It will enable them to prioritise poverty eradication in their respective future leadership roles and they will work like other great leaders such as former President Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Ghandi and Winston Churchill did. These global icons committed to making the world a better place through concrete examples of charitable giving,” he said.
The school, he said, was founded on the principle of justice in order to help the children in their future roles to work to resolve social and economic problems.
“They will, as entrepreneurs and technologists, create conditions to improve employment and lessen the number of people desperate for household income,” Lacki said.
One of the beneficiaries, Makhaya Madolo, who has survived on manufacturing jobs for many years, said the blankets will keep him warm, ward off flu this winter and enable him to get up early every morning to continue searching for work rather than engaging in crime.
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