Help keep the youth warm this winter in the #MakingADifferenceSA drive
LONEHILL – You can help our less fortunate children warm this winter. Find out more here.
This winter is going to be a chilly one! If you’re worried about how the less fortunate in our area will cope, the good news is that you can help them keep warm.
The Lonehill Community Improvement Initiative (LCII) in partnership with the Romeo and Basetsana Kumalo Family Foundation, have launched the #MakingADifferenceSA blanket and staple foods drive, and they need your help!
“Although there are a lot of collection drives for the less fortunate at this time of year, we noticed that they didn’t start at the beginning of June, when the winter cold starts,” explained Gavin Borrageiro of the LCII. “So we’ve decided to launch the #MakeADifferenceSA in Youth month.”
Residents have the opportunity to drop off donations of blankets and staple foodstuffs (such as maize and porridge) at the drop-off points, which will be distributed to young people from less privileged households in both Diepsloot and Olivenhoutbosch.
“[This drive] is really about being good neighbours to those around us who are the most vulnerable, like the youth,” he said.
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This is the first year that the #MakeADifferenceSA drive is taking place, but Borrageiro hopes it will be the first of a yearly tradition, and that the campaign will find other ways to help others year-round.
“A huge thank you to the Lonehill Shopping Centre, and all of our key sponsors,” Borrageiro concluded.
