Generous donors assist Midrand SPCA
GLEN AUSTIN – Ward 132 councillor Annette Deppe is pleased with the efforts made by community members to help others in need.
Ward 132 councillor Annette Deppe, along with kind-hearted community members have helped give back to others during the lockdown.
Deppe explained that when the lockdown started, she and Desiree Schutte, the former board member of the Midrand Child Welfare decided to start an initiative, with the help of Vorna Valley SPAR, to raise funds and feed people who are not working and can’t afford to feed their families.
She added, “We have so far raised 240 000, in the last three and a half months, and fed more than 7 000 people already. It is not just been through the Vorna Valley SPAR Covid-19 relief fund, it has also been through direct donations like these. People have asked me to collect and deliver, and because as councillors we were not that busy as we normally are, I was not just going to sit at home and do nothing.”
Deppe, along with Otto Kgeletsane, the PR councillor for Ward 92, and Nkosi Sibanda, delivered 10 bags of 40kg dog food to the Midrand SPCA on 21 August, all thanks to good local Samaritans.
“We donated 10, 40 kilograms of dog food through one of our residents, Caren Sutherns and her husband from Geoffrey Sutherns Attorneys, who kindly donated to the Midrand SPCA. It is very humbling for me as a councillor to get these donations in. I never thought, in my wildest dreams, with this outreach project that I am doing to feed people and hand out food parcels – I would get the kind of support that I have been getting.”
Midrand SPCA general manager, Pamela Pretorius expressed utmost joy as she and her team welcomed the donations. “We are extremely grateful, we have had a huge shortage of food at the moment, so the timing is absolutely perfect. I am so happy to have a councillor coming to visit us at the SPCA, I think it is a huge step in the right direction.
“We cannot be more grateful. But we do urge the community to keep us in mind at all times, as we have many other needs. Our biggest needs at this stage are that we have opened up a clinic and finances are really bad all around while at the same time our clinic is now becoming very busy. We have to start building hospitals and clinics here, unfortunately, we have run out of space. Nonetheless, we are in desperate need of building materials, therefore if there are any contractors who can assist us that would be of tremendous help.”
She concluded that there is also a need to complete their kennels and for more storage containers for the donations they receive.
Details: Midrand SPCA 011 265 9935.
