Save Life Africa visits Peacock informal settlement
The organisation also organised a fun day for the children of Peacock, where they were given sweets, biscuits and juice.
The Save Life Africa team visited the informal settlement of Peacock in Ruimsig on 20 July, to commemorate Mandela Day.
Save Life Africa is a non-governmental organisation that is committed to making a difference in the lives of the less privileged.
To celebrate Mandela Day, the organisation donated clothes to the elders of the community, and made a commitment to create a relationship with these elders and to visit them at their homes on a regular basis. The purpose of the relationship is to ensure that the organisation helps these families in any way they can.
Founder of the organisation, Parson Gapa, said, “We identify areas that have been affected by man-made and natural disasters and provide relief by donating basic necessities as well as implementing community development initiatives to create sustainable communities.”
The organisation also organised a fun day for the children of Peacock, where they were given sweets, biscuits and juice. It was fun and games as the kids participated in various activities such as a dance competition, a singing competition, soccer and netball.
Gapa said, “We are very grateful to those parents who joined in to support their children. It was a Mandela Day to remember. The children were happy and had so much energy.”
A meeting with the community took place where they outlined their problems, which include a lack of electricity, no clinic and a lack of youth development projects to harness unemployment and create a sustainable community.
Save Life Africa has committed to adopting the community and are now tackling bigger projects such as looking for funding to source or buy shipping containers that can be used for a community library, and a youth computer centre that will be powered by solar energy.
The organisation has also launched a children’s feeding scheme in the community and adopted the youth soccer team (Ruimsig FC) Seven Bullets.
The organisation hopes that moving forward, more lives will be impacted in a positive manner and encouraged those who would like to donate clothes, computers, sewing machines, soccer equipment or any other life changing donations to help the residents of the settlement to please do so.
Gapa said, “There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to helping others without expecting anything in return.”
