New face masks for Diepsloot learners
DIEPSLOOT – Diepsloot West Secondary School learners get a donation of more than 3 000 face masks for learners and teachers thanks to a motor vehicle dealership.
Williams Hunt Fourways partnered with CFAO Motors South Africa to donate 3 600 face masks to Diepsloot West Secondary School learners on 20 November.
The school has almost 1 200 learners and has struggled to provide everyone with a mask. The supply of face masks came from CFAO Motors SA chief financial officer, Neil Kotze.
Isuzu sales manager, Riaan van Wyk said, “We always look for ways to get involved with the community like this as we want to assist in any way we can. There are a lot of areas where they do not have proper face masks, and that is quite dangerous.
“There could be other projects that we get involved in with the school, and I hope we can continue this partnership. We just want to support them as best we can.”
Acting principal of Diepsloot West Secondary School, Ntsobane Mogale said the school is incredibly grateful for the donation as many learners come to school without masks since Covid-19 hit the school ‘really hard’. “We really did struggle during lockdown, with many teachers having to have more learners in their classrooms. The school had to use a lot of money to buy sanitisers since we had run out,” he said.
“It is a much-awaited donation since we were in a dire situation with face masks. Since there are a lot [of face masks] here for the learners, they can even take more than one. Staff can also make use of them.”
Mogale said the school would like to make use of face shields to accommodate for asthmatic learners.
Yiskah Powe, Mildred Tshabalala and Morne Schlebusch headed up the project for Isuzu to find a school to donate the facemasks. She said they chose to donate to Diepsloot Secondary as there has been a high number of Covid-19 cases in high schools.
“You don’t have issues like this in the suburbs where learners struggle for masks to keep safe since kids this side struggle to buy masks. We want to concentrate on one school and identify what they need as a school. We can then spread our wings to other schools when we finish what we can here,” she concluded.
