Teddies show that Thembalami cares
LINKSFIELD – Thembalami Care Centre spreads love this festive season.
Thembalami Care Centre residents, staff members and volunteers who are part of the Zamokuhle Outreach Programme are destined to warm the hearts of children who are spending the festive season in hospital.
When Max Green from the Beit Emanuel Synagogue in Johannesburg approached the Rand Aid-run care centre to see if they would knit teddies for the congregation’s Ubuntu Bears Outreach Project, he was overwhelmed by the response. “I had no sooner walked in the door with the wool, and they were casting on,” Green said.
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On 23 November, Green and fellow synagogue care committee member Diane Fine arrived to fetch the collection of a whopping 103 teddy bears which the residents and staff had lovingly made.
These, and teddies being made by other organisations, will be handed out to paediatric ward patients just before Christmas.
Mongalo Ngoasheng, a social auxiliary work student at Thembalami Care Centre, had never knitted before the start of the project, but after a few lessons from some patient gogos, managed to complete seven teddies.
Details: If you would like to knit or contribute to the Ubuntu Bears Outreach Project, contact Max Green at 011 646 9636.
