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Fourways residents show their commitment to helping others
FOURWAYS – We have rounded-up some of the most heartwarming community initiatives this year.
Despite many challenges faced this year, the Fourways community continues to show their care and commitment to helping others.
We have rounded up some of the most heart-warming community initiatives that took place this year.
q The Johannesburg Wildlife Veterinary Clinic in Glenferness show their consistent support for animals in need. Throughout this year, the clinic has assisted many animals in need from pangolins to servals and vervet monkeys.
- In the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak, inmates at Leeuwkop Correctional Facility decided to put their time to good use and made masks for other inmates to prevent the spread of the virus in the prison.
https://www.citizen.co.za/fourways-review/354577/offenders-create-masks-for-fellow-inmates/ - Fifty-five children of Diepsloot Combined School receive a month’s worth of groceries every single month thanks to the work done by Ngangifisa.
https://www.citizen.co.za/fourways-review/323598/ngangifisa-helps-keep-diepsloot-combined-school-learners-bellies-full/ - Throughout the lockdown, the Fourways Community Action Network was hard at work to assist community members in dire need. They helped provided food parcels and even employed a team of unemployed residents to help keep the neighbourhood clean.
https://www.citizen.co.za/fourways-review/349515/join-fourways-can-and-feed-the-hungry/
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- The One Cup of Pap initiative aimed to provided meals for residents of the Clay Oven informal settlement. What initially began as an idea of distributing one cup of maize meal by former Sharks and Stormers rugby player, Wayne Boardman, grew into a fully-fledged operation that feeds hundreds of vulnerable people in various communities on a weekly basis.
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