Steyn City delivers happiness to Diepsloot

Steyn City ambassador, radio presenter and entrepreneur, Thabo Molefe also known as T-Bo Touch said, “What a great day it is that we are here in Diepsloot giving children bags with stationery needed for school, which will enable them to learn and craft their own destiny. Giving them gifts ahead of Christmas is to show that someone still cares about them.”

The annual CSI project has reached 9 000 primary school children in Diepsloot.

Guiseppe Plumari, CEO of Steyn City Properties, said, “We should all make an effort towards such initiatives; we need to hold hands and help those in need. Steyn City has taken up the initiative of giving and has been doing so for the past four years.”

Steyn City added a new dimension to the project this year… they placed an order for the Grade 7s of each primary school with Rethaka, who manufactures the innovative Re-purpose Schoolbags.

Thato Kgatlhanye, founder and CEO of Rethaka, who is one of the youth icons in 21 Season III ‘The Future of a Nature’ said, “For Rethaka to deliver these bags is how we do our bit for our society, by giving more light and bags made out of recycled plastics and solar panels to these children contributes to their self-esteem and dignity.”

Rethaka currently employs 20 people, 17 of which are from Kgatlhanye’s hometown Rustenburg. They produce 700 bags a month for rural communities throughout the country. The bags are made from recycled plastic collected from landfill sites. They are fitted with retro-reflective material that improves the bag’s visibility, ensuring child-safety, which has a fitted solar panel that also enables schoolchildren to use the inserted solar reading lamp as an energy source to read and study with.

“We have the opportunity to make a difference; let us seize the moment and build our nation one child at a time,” T-Bo Touch said.

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