Couple collect donations for Inchanga school
The principal of the school was grateful for the donations as most learners are orphans.
EVERTON couple, Trevor and Claire Clarke, started an initiative to collect clothes and sports goods for Steven Davison learners in Inchanga.
The school has 550 learners from Grade RR to Grade 7 who come from impoverished backgrounds
The initiative, meant to be a once-off donation where they donated computers and electrical items that they no longer had a use for, has snowballed and the couple received massive support.
Trevor said he was taking his gardener, (Thulani) to his home in Inchanga who told him about a local school, Steven Davison, which was built by British Football Fans in 2010.
On Friday, 19 May, Trevor and Claire drove to Inchanga in a van filled with items to donate to the school.
Principal of the school, Zwelibanzi Nkosi, said the school is happy and grateful for the generation donation.
“It will really help us a lot, our school is in a rural community and we do not have resources.”
Nkosi said most of the learners are orphans who live with their grannies or come from child-headed homes.
“They depend on grant money which they use to buy food and cannot afford to buy stationery. We will distribute the items accordingly and the calculators will be kept in the office and taken out when the children need to use them,” he said.
Trevor said he would like to thank all the donors who made exceptional efforts to ensure their drive was a success.
“Shell Npm auto services for fuel, Seartec Pinetown donated 30 scientific calculators, Jane Kuzlo for becoming our depot in Sheffield Beach, Image Assured for doing a clothing drive, Hirsch Hillcrest for their clothing drive, Kwa Mama for donating loads of sporting equipment, Little Ones and all the families who made donations, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts,” he said.
