In May, Deutsche Internationale Schule Johannesburg ran the Going for Guild Food Drive as part of their annual Schulbasar celebrations.
According to the school’s marketing and public relations manager, Savo Ceprnich the donations from this drive were so immense that Guild Cottage, a home for sexually abused girls, had enough food to last them the whole of winter. Due to the initial success of the drive, the school was able to continue with it and donate further food packages.
“It was easy to forget that Mandela Day took place on 18 July and as part of the school’s recognition of this day, we ran a #MandelaWeek Food Drive in aid of Growing Champions. The school community was again very generous as we collected enough food to feed more than 18 families in the Windsor and Eldorado park areas.”
Growing Champions is a non-profit organisation in Fairland that works with children born into danger, to break the shackles of poverty, criminal rings, violence, addiction and abuse, through the use of education, personal development and sport to cultivate youth determined and armed with tools to create positive change in the world.
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