New kitchen for underpriviledged school
A container turned into a kitchen was handed over to the Tarlton Primary School where two meals a day are provided to 545 pupils.
Many warm meals will be prepared to over 500 pupils this winter and many thereafter.
Woolworths together with Tarlton Police and the Krugersdorp Police’s Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences (FCS) Unit handed over a container that has been turned into a kitchen to the Tarlton Primary School.
The school provides education to 545 children with an underprivileged background and most of them therefore depend on the school’s nutrition project.
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Constable Lucky Matome, a police spokesperson said they have noticed the previous kitchen wasn’t fully equipped nor user friendly and have decided to get together with partners to assist the school in obtaining a better kitchen.
“This is in line with Child Protection Week, where we will be celebrating children’s rights and also educating them about their rights,” he said.
The kitchen staff had to make use of buckets filled with water they had to carry to the old kitchen but with the new kitchen this is something of the past.
“They have running water and a geyser to keep the water warm as well as power which hasn’t been in the older kitchen for years,” said Belinda Botha, Head of Social Responsibility at Woolworths Division 1.
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Woolworths’s Division 1 staff members together have donated R100 000 towards the kitchen project and a sponsor has given them an extra R20 000 to have a shelter installed.
Ethel Dambula, school principal said she is very overwhelmed and excited about the new kitchen.
“I can just say thank you to everyone involved. It also was a dream of mine to see a new kitchen which have become a reality.”
She said she is certain that the children, to whom they provide two meals a day, will be forever grateful.
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