MMC for Economic Development, Lawrence Khoza and the acting regional director for Region A, Victoria Rammala, visited Ivory Park on 12 March to donate vegetables to those less fortunate.
The meeting took place at the Lord Khanyile Library Centre, where community members were invited to fetch a bag of vegetables consisting of cabbages, potatoes, carrots, butternut, beetroot and more.
Region A manager for social development Yvon Phogole said that, with their different forums, they were able to identify recipients in need of the donations. She said, “Because we had a limit of 100 people due to Covid-19 regulations we had to ask the coordinators of all groups or forums to each give us a specific number, 25 in this instance, which all then be added up to 100 people.”
She added that there is an ongoing programme to feed community members. “Community members would have to register with their local councillor or ward committee who will then bring the names to us and then those in need would have the food delivered to them on a weekly basis.”
Rammala explained that the MMC had a very good engagement with the City of Johannesburg’s Joburg Market where they offered these packages. “As the MMC for this region, it was necessary for him to start this particular project here at Ivory Park. This is the first and we do have other events of this same nature coming up in other wards.”
Khoza also added that he was deployed to work in Region A to assist community members in need. “Normally government does provide support to the most vulnerable but, in this particular case, the situation has been worsened by the pandemic.”
Khoza concluded, “A lot of people have lost jobs and companies have closed down, and so, we did not want to sit back and watch our people die of hunger.”
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