Rotary Club eases a crisis
Hundreds of desperately needy people flocked to the big tree behind the old graveyard to exchange recyclable material in exchange for yoghurt, maas or a juice donated by Orange Grove.
It was a blustery morning last week when the local Rotarians handed over a much-needed gazebo and screens to the local Crisis Centre.
Hundreds of desperately needy people flocked to the big tree behind the old graveyard to exchange recyclable material in exchange for yoghurt, maas or a juice donated by Orange Grove.
The Crisis Centre was forced to move the feeding from Birkett Street to under the big tree following complaints from neighbours and pressure from the municipality.
Since then, the mainly elderly people who arrive there – and the Crisis Centre workers – have had to deal with the unkind elements.
Rotary president, Bev Garner, and her fellow Rotarians put up the gazebo and arranged for the fruit juice and yoghurt to be handed out to the children and others who had already arrived there.
Steven Layton made the screens and Rotary exchange student, Catherine Willis-Smith, collected the funds with her guest Rotarians in Havelberg, Germany, while she was an exchange student in 2013.
Also in attendance were Rotary stalwarts Jenny and Waldo Thöle, Bev Garner, Tish Coleman, Yvonne Lucini, Alex Willis-Smith, and last, but not least, the eternally camera-shy Carol Bradley, as always in charge of the noble efforts at the Crisis Centre.
