Donate your cents to further education
Solidariteit Helpende Hand Primrose appeals to the community to donate their “brown” money to project.
Solidariteit Helpende Hand Primrose is urging the community to help them raise money for the Sente vir Studente project.
This national Solidariteit initiative raises funds to enable youngsters to study further, mainly in the trade industry (for example, boilermaking, hairdressing, etc.).
“We are asking people to donate their cents to us, in other words, their ‘brown’ money,” said chairman of the Primrose branch, Jenny Araujo.
“All the money raised will then be doubled by Solidariteit and go into the national study fund, enabling more deserving students the opportunity to study.”
The project aims at helping students in all communities where there is a Helpende Hand branch, and also to strengthen communities in this way.
Araujo told the GCN they will have collection tins available at flea markets, at local schools (where the school will also be given some of the funds raised by them to start their own study funds) and at various churches.
The project will run until the end of the year, but the branch plans to do it on a permanent basis, to raise more money for needy students.
Branches can apply for assistance for candidates from their area, who they feel deserve help from the organisation, by the end of September.
Helpende Hand Primrose also has a special bottle which they plan to keep filling on their own, and this money will be used specifically for Germiston students, in addition to the national project.
For more information on the project, email to Jenny, at jennydcaraujo@gmail.com, or to Sandra Ludik, at ludik.s@vodamail .co.za.
Another project in which the branch is currently involved is a soup kitchen initiative.
For the month of June, the members will be visiting various homes and schools in the Germiston area and running a soup kitchen.
“If it is financially viable and a success we will continue the project until the end of July,” Jenny said.
The branch thanks Sarie Lange from Elsburg for offering to donate a pot of soup every week for the project.
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