LOCAL company, Italtile hosted a Wine Auction with Wiele 500 to help raise funds for the charity at the Oyster Box Hotel in uMhlanga recently.
The Wiele/Wheels500 is a non-profit organisation dedicated to enabling individuals with spinal cord injuries and was established as a trust in 2012 with the aim to help people with a need for wheel-legs. The trust is managed by a group of passionate individuals wanting to make a difference.
Wheels 500 gives away wheel-legs to people who would normally not qualify in terms of the Department of Social Development’s legislation, but hunger for their own independence.
The auction raised more than R300 000 with five wine barrels were sold on te evening.
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