NPO drives community outreach project
With funding for a trailer, the 1 000 Hills Community Helpers was able to start its Meals on Wheels initiative.
THE purchase of a single trailer by the 1 000 Hills Community Helpers has set the wheels in motion to create a vast difference in the lives of many in the valley.
The Meals on Wheels campaign sees the organisation’s home-based carers handing out nutritious meals to dozens of residents in Fredville, Ichanga.
“It has always pained me to know there are so many disabled, elderly and sick people who need nutritional meals and are left to try and fend for themselves,” said the organisation’s CEO and founder, Dawn Faith Leppan.
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The NPO works closely with Compassionow, an American based NGO, that supports the 1 000 Hills Community Helpers with its Primary Health Care Clinic.
“It was so sad to hear that their director, Lee Kennedy, passed away from cancer and bequeathed a sum of money to be left to the centre,” said Dawn.
The money was used to buy the trailer which is now used as the Meals on Wheels initiative.
For its work, the NPO has received the Paul Harris award, eThekwini Municipality Award, the Standard Bank Award, a Carte Blanche Making a Difference award, the Impumelelo Award, The Golden Key Award as well as the eThekwini Living Legend Award.
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