Local retail store celebrates Mandela Day with local foundation
Management from the store hopes the home will also supply the store when the planted vegetables are ready for harvest.
Employees of Pick n Pay Busy Corner Mall spent their 67 minutes of Mandela Day at The Love of God Disability Foundation based in Lusaka Business Park, Ivory Park.
Mandela Day is about inculcating a culture of service that lasts beyond the 67 minutes set aside on July 18 every year.
Pick n Pay Busy Corner set up an irrigation system for the home on July 13 and the work of giving back continued on Mandela Day.
The local store further donated 12 bags of compost, two bags of bone meal, 20 trays of various seedlings and numerous seeds.
Some of the vegetables that were planted included cabbage, spinach, spring onion, red onion, beetroot, kale and lettuce.
The Pick n Pay management hoped the home would also supply the store with the vegetables after they had been harvested.
“The Love of God Disability foundation is a fantastic organisation doing amazing work amongst the community. I hope Pick n Pay Busy Corner can offer them some much-deserved support and I hope the surrounding community can do the same,” said Alexander Georghiades, the Pick n Pay assistant store manager.
“My long-term hope is that the foundation will be able to grow vegetables for Pick n Pay Busy Corner and become one of many local, sustainable suppliers.”
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