Roodepoort charities receive welcome donation
The shelter also provides training to the people at the shelter and is currently housing 65 homeless men and 45 homeless female skills trainees
The Operation Job Creation (OJC) Development Centre in Roodepoort, and two other charity organisations recently received welcome donations.
Trade Kings South Africa has been manufacturing their maize-based drink in South Africa since 2009. The product – which is known as Maheu or Ama SipSip – comes in four different flavours. The company is a regular donor to many organisations in need, with the OJC Development Centre being just one of their beneficiaries.
Charlene Patrick Baker, who is part of the OJC management, was very grateful for this donation. “We at the OJC Development Centre would like to thank Trade Kings for their generous donation. We have been giving the product to our residents and soup kitchen guests and they are very grateful. We feed 45 residents and between 60 and 80 guests from the street on a daily basis. They have also told us that they love the drink and it is delicious,” she said.
But, because they received a large quantity of the product, they decided to spread the joy, and made a donation of their own. “Because we received so much Ama SipSip, we decided to share our good fortune and help Sparrow Ministries and Dorah’s Ark Child Care Centre as well,” Charlene said.
Since 2001, the OJC has been taking in homeless people and supplying them with accommodation, food, toiletries and clothing. Most of the residents are brought in by social workers, the police, the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department, churches, and the public, and some come straight from the streets as walk-ins.
The shelter also provides training to the people at the shelter and is currently housing 65 homeless men and 45 homeless female skills trainees. The OJC provides – where possible – medical care, counselling services and social services to enable the people in their care to rejoin their families and communities as positive contributing members.
The OJC Development Centre offers other services to the community as well, including a feeding scheme which feeds between 60 and 80 people daily. Consequently, they rely heavily on donations from the community and businesses.
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