March highlights struggles of children living in Plastic City
The children peacefully marched from the school, which is situated along Kingsway Avenue, to the local Ekurhuleni Customer Care Centre and back.
The Harvest Project held a march on Youth Day with Grade One learners from Blessings Eco Preparatory School.
The school caters for children who would usually not go to school due to their status and domestic situation.
The Harvest Project is a mobile NPO that enters complex environments, such as the Plastic City informal settlement, where children are at risk of abuse, violence, racism, xenophobia, health risks and inequality.
The Harvest Project runs multiple projects within the settlement and Brakpan.
One such project, The Harvest Animal Rescue Centre, was featured in last week’s edition of the Herald, ‘For the love of the animals’.
The children peacefully marched from the school, which is situated along Kingsway Avenue, to the local Ekurhuleni Customer Care Centre and back.
“We were asking for solar (lighting) for all our children in Plastic City, for a safe form of power and also to be able to see better at night to avoid cars,” said Yakima Waner from The Harvest Project.
“We also marched for child protection as it was Child Protection Week and Youth Day.”
