Bank donation boosts feeding scheme for work-seekers
An Al Baraka Bank-funded feeding scheme is making a difference.
STAFF at a Durban-based Islamic bank are rolling up their sleeves and distributing food and beverage packs to almost 100 desperate work-seekers from disadvantaged backgrounds in the city every week.
Their intervention follows a decision by Al Baraka Bank to assist The Orient Old Boys – a household name among Durban’s charitable organisations – continue its feeding scheme.
The bank has donated R65 000 as a contribution towards covering the annual cost of running the organisation’s weekly feeding scheme, which operates in Felix Dlamini (Brickfield) Road, Overport, every Thursday at lunchtime.
The Orient Old Boys, established in 1967, recently celebrated a half century of ‘seeking and serving’ impoverished communities in and around Durban.
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The organisation’s chairperson, Mr Imran Bobat, said of the bank’s donation: “While most of our projects are reasonably manageable, some of the more major undertakings – such as the Ramadaan Zakaat Hamper Collection and this, our important feeding scheme – do present challenges. We are most grateful for Al Baraka Bank’s assistance, a financial boost which reduces the pressure in having to go cap-in-hand in search of funds to offset shortfalls, while also ensuring that we are able to sustain our efforts to feed those in need who are seriously attempting to secure gainful employment.”
The bank’s Chief Executive, Mr Shabir Chohan, said: “We are especially proud of our members of staff who, on a totally voluntary basis, give so freely of their time to distribute food and beverage packs to these most deserving individuals who are struggling to enter the world of work.”
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