Preserving heritage through education, page by page
Heritage Month has paved the way for the collaboration between the 1860 Heritage Centre and the ABH to kick start this initiative.
THE Aryan Benevolent Home (ABH) in collaboration with the 1860 Heritage Centre, will be auctioning three framed canvas prints to raise funds for the ABH.
Kish Chetty, marketing manager at the ABH, said: “We believe that strong foundations are built with good primary education. It is a huge undertaking, more so in these trying times. Our aim is to raise R300 000, to meet the cost of books, teachers’ salaries and general running expenses for teachers who are currently helping to educate the children at ABH.”
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He said Heritage Month has paved the way for the collaboration between the 1860 Heritage Centre and the ABH to kick start this initiative.
Selvan Naidoo, curator of the 1860 Heritage Centre, said: “Education has been the cornerstone on which our community was built. Our forefathers built schools so that our community could prosper and break the shackles of poverty and the perils of the canefields. We are delighted to be aiding this very worthy initiative of the ABH, to ensure that the legacy which our forefathers started continues even today.”
Bidding on the prints will be done on the 1860 Heritage Centre’s Facebook page. Visit: https://www.facebook.com/1860heritagecentre between 24 September and 30 October to aid the children of ABH’s education page by page.
“The 1860 Heritage Centre strives to document, preserve and record aspects of the heritage of South Africa’s Indian Community as part of National Heritage. The three framed canvas prints serve as a visual documentation of parts of the history of the South African Indian Community, so that we never forget our humble beginnings,” said Naidoo.
Chetty added: “Heritage Month serves as a catalyst for nation building. Please help our home and our children and purchase a piece of our heritage by participating in the online auction.”
Contact 061 477 7208 or 031 404 9530, email: kish@abh.co.za or visit www.abh.co.za.
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