Shoppers donate stationery

Shoppers generously donated new and used stationery in bins allocated around the mall.

The mall supplemented the stationery collected by purchasing notebooks, pens, pencils, rulers, scissors, colouring pencils, writing paper, pencil cases, among other stationery.

This year, the stationery went to Thembelenkosini Care Givers in Senaoane, Soweto.

On 16 February, students from Soweto made their way to Thembelenkosini and were surprised by the Killarney Mall team. The representatives from the mall were there to hand over boxes of books, files, stationery and food.

The children were overwhelmed with happiness when they received their pencil cases filled with stationery, notebooks, pencil crayons and books to fill their library. The library received many reading books and encyclopaedias kindly donated by Killarney Mall shoppers. After an afternoon of song and dance, they were further surprised when trolleys came in with food.

Senaoane is a growing and vibrant neighbourhood in Soweto with a burgeoning presence of schools, churches, clinics, sports facilities and NGOs. Thembelenkosini Care Givers is a registered non-profit organisation and their mission is to physically, emotionally and intellectually enhance the lives of children in the community of Senaoane.

Many of these children are orphaned and to them Thembelenkosini is not just a care facility as they rely on the centre for food, education and stationery to get through the school year.

On many occasions, this charity has fallen short of supplies and care givers dig into their own pockets to assist.

The mall would like to express its gratitude and appreciation to the many shoppers who made this initiative possible, and further acknowledged the teachers of Saxonworld Primary school who contributed much-needed cash to the Stationery Drive.

The Stationery Drive will continue once again in Killarney Mall in November.