Kids help to give back to Daily Bread NPO
LONEHILL – Crawford learners pay if forward with weekly sandwich donations to a Douglasdale-based NPO for the needy.
Weekly donations of sandwiches have assisted local NPO, Daily Bread Organisation, thanks to learners from Crawford College Lonehill.
Founder of the organisation, Charmaine McGinley said three learners from the school – two from the college and one from the preparatory – have been contributing weekly to the organisation thanks to a teacher from the school who worked with the organisation almost 10 years ago.
“A wonderful teacher, Pravitha Naidoo, worked with our organisation back in 2010 and remembered the work we were doing. She contacted us a year ago, and her students had been making sandwiches for our partner nursery school in Msawawa every Thursday.
“With lockdown and as kids were not at school or health legislation changed, the parents and kids took it upon themselves to continue with the feeding programme,” she said.
The organisation donates to feeding schemes in Alex and Msawawa, with the shop open between Tuesday and Saturday.
“Donors will drop in daily with various goods and, as it comes in, our volunteers deliver to the needy and vulnerable within a day or so…food goes out the same day,” said McGinley.
Grade 10 learner Rhiya Singh is one of three learners from the school who started donating sandwiches to the Daily Bread almost five weeks ago and donated every Saturday. The two other learners are brothers Joshua and Isaiah Singh.
Rhiya said, “I started making sandwiches for Daily Bread because I felt that I needed to do more for my community. I usually partake in community outreach with my school; however, the pandemic has put a stop to those outreach trips for now.”
Rhiya, who gets help from her parents with making the sandwiches, said she enjoys being able to give back to the community during these times. Aside from donating sandwiches for Daily Bread, she also makes sandwiches for Christway Orphanage as well as donating vegetables for soup on a weekly basis that should feed around 500 people. “My parents have a great amount of respect for what I do and are also trying to assist by encouraging some of their business associates to support my drive.
“I would definitely encourage others to do the same for our community. We can all do our part to help others, whether it is by making sandwiches or by donating food. At every given opportunity I share with my peers in school what I am doing.”
