Community comes together to assist others
DIEPSLOOT –Sanitary pads distributions to young girls and a community clean-up took place on the last weekend of February to keep the newly developed community of Riverside View safe and clean.
Community members of Riverside View in Diepsloot came together to clean up their environment.
The day on 28 February comprised of a clean-up and sanitary pad distribution involving organisations and businesses such as Action for Responsible Management of Our Rivers, Sedumedi Hope Foundation and African Bank.
David Marokane, founder of Green Hope Foundation SA reached out to many organisations and businesses and planned the day’s events with the founder of the foundation and breast cancer survivor, Refilwe Sedumedi.
“We, as a community, have realised that with Riverside View being a newly developed place, we need to be educated in keeping our place clean on a regular basis,” said Marokane.
“Pikitup is our service provider in regard to the environment and cleaning, but they were not coping on their own. We are the first to come and gather the community with the interest in keeping our community clean.”
More than 100 bags of litter were collected by members of the community comprising young and old. The bags were taken away by Pikitup. Later that afternoon, sanitary pads donated by various organisations were handed out to women in the shopping centre.
Marokane said they hoped the donations would help those who were unable to afford sanitary pads.
“Since February is the month of love, we as the Green Hope Foundation decided we should try to get as many sanitary pads as we can and distribute to our young girls in the flats and shacks around us,” Marokane explained.
Centre manager, Vivian Wandera said the centre was also approached by Marokane to help with the sanitary pads and clean-up.
“As a centre, we got involved with advertising of the event and his [Marokane] NGO. For the clean-up, we also were able to supply people with cleaning materials such as refuse bags, gloves and cleaning materials,” Wandera told the Fourways Review.
Marokane and Sedumedi said they hoped to have more events such as this in the future in order to help uplift the community.
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