Boost for community projects
Eskom made donations to the Senzokuhle Community Based Organisation and Carrots and Peas Kitchen.
TWO Durban charities have benefited from Eskom’s corporate social investment. Senzokuhle Community Based Organisation received a donation of R15 000, while R10 400 was donated by Eskom to the Carrots and Peas Kitchen, based at Kenneth Gardens in Umbilo.
The Senzokuhle Community Based Organisation was started by Khanyi Sibiya, who has a passion for working for the community. Khanyi came up with an idea of starting a community health clinic because people from Umbilo were being turned away from King Edward Hospital and the local clinic was too far away. She established the clinic by visiting sick people from her neighbourhood and helped them by monitoring the medication and delivering food that was cooked by the soup kitchen so that they did not take medication on an empty stomach. Most of the people that Khanyi helps are unemployed, pensioners, street children as well as indigent people. She approached the University of KwaZulu-Natal who climbed on board by providing medical students, chiropractors and homeopaths to assist at the clinic on a rotational basis.
The clinic offers nursing, cleaning, administering of medication, transfer letters to the hospital, transporting of patients to different hospitals, checking of BP, blood glucose, wound cleaning and covering. Khanyi said the donation will be used towards medical supplies and training.
Carrots and Peas Kitchen serves people of Kenneth Gardens who are homeless and unemployed. The kitchen was started by Zandile Ntaka and Joyce Gunkel who are also unemployed. The kitchen feeds the elderly, unemployed as well as the indigent who are in need of help. It also supports orphans who go to Carrington Primary School.
Carrots and Peas Kitchen is sometimes supported by business people who donate bread and food. The kitchen feeds people on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and hopes to offer meals on more days. The kitchen offers breakfast, lunch and supper for those who are on medication.
The women said the donation will be used to buy a fridge to keep the food fresh, crockery for cooking and cupboards.
Mr Monde Bala, Eskom KZN Operating Unit General Manager, handed over the donations.
Mr Bala thanked the institutions for giving of their hearts, time and hands to reach out to those less fortunate than themselves. He said Eskom was a caring organisation and was honoured to contribute in whatever way to help make a difference.
