Ivotesa donates hand sanitisers to less privilege community members of Orange Grove
ORANGE GROVE – Naicker said the poor people who cannot afford basic needs like food and sanitisers should be supported by those who are able.
The leader of I Vote SA civic organisation, Brendon Naicker and volunteers of the organisation recently took to the streets of Orange Grove to hand out free handwash soap and sanitisers to the less privileged members of the community amid Covid-19 outbreak in South Africa.
This was after President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a country-wide lockdown amid the deadly Covid-19 outbreak in South Africa starting from 26 March midnight until 16 April to prevent the spread of the virus that has claimed thousands of lives in other parts of the world.
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Naicker said poor people who cannot afford basic needs like food and sanitisers will be hit the hardest by the epidemic and should be supported in all means by those who are able. “We must be courteous and kind in showing love to our neighbours. As a gesture of love, I Vote SA embarked in a door-to-door campaign to hand out free handwash liquid soap to the community of Orange Grove. The rich in the country are stockpiling and the poor are unable to buy the little [they need] to sustain them for at least a week and this is unfair,” he said
Naicker appealed to the business community to lend a helping hand by donating essential food and toiletries to those who are less privileged. “Companies have closed and some people have already lost their jobs because of coronavirus and joined millions of unemployed people in the country. This epidemic is adding to an existing crisis of high rate of unemployment in the country. It is during moments like this one that a nation should come together.”
Naicker also added that the use of the term ‘social distancing’ can further divide the country with a history of segregation.
“As South Africans, I think we should refrain from using the term social distancing, we [should] rather use ‘physical distancing’ instead,” Naicker said.
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