Young professionals from Sandton stand united to help a community in need
SANDTON – Young professionals in the Sandton community are encouraged to become members of the BMF and pledge their support to help kick-start the journeys of the leaders of tomorrow.
Enthusiastic about the country’s future and leaders in their respective fields of work, a handful of individuals from the Black Management Forum Young Professionals (BMF YP) spent the morning of 30 January lending a helping hand to the Ratang Bana organisation in Alexandra.
Ratang Bana is a non-profit community organisation which aims to support and empower vulnerable children, with a particular focus on orphaned children and children affected and infected by HIV and Aids.
Chairperson of the young professional’s forum, Ayanda Masinda, presented an official letter from the BMF YP with its commitments for Ratang Bana for the year ahead. She also presented Ingrid Maredi, manager at Ratang Bana, with a donation of R3 000 which was raised in just two weeks by the forum.
This donation will be able to produce over 1 000 loaves of bread and feed the families and children at Ratang Bana throughout the year.
“One cannot take their rightful place in the economic affairs of any nation on an empty stomach. This is why our immediate commitment is to achieve the United Nations Goal 2: Zero Hunger by 2030 by partnering with Ratang Bana to assist the 500 children that go to the centre daily for counselling, guidance, food parcels and benefit from the various community programmes at the centre,” said the forum’s Kabelo Kgobane.
Beginning 30 January, the forum will collaborate with the organisation on the following projects:
- Baking project – daily baking of bread and pizza which will be sold to the community to help raise money for the non-profit. Some of the bread is also shared with the children and their families
- Providing a bigger signage board outside of the centre in Alexandra
- Refurbishing and painting containers which will be used as spaces for baking
- Vegetable garden and food parcels
The BMF YP were also the first to be presented with a donor spot on the baking/pizza ovens at Ratanga Bana. “Our donation earned us a spot on two of the bricks here. It will be printed out nicely on a slate and added later on. Going forward, if anyone would like their name on featured on the bricks of the ovens, they just need to make a monthly pledge,” added Kgobane.
Pledges can be emailed to ratangbanafutureforchildren@gmail.com
“To the children of Alexandra and Ratang Bana we say, you are the future of our country and you have earned yourselves giants on whose shoulders you will stand to become greater than your current situations,” Kgobane concluded.
Young professionals in the Sandton community are encouraged to become members of the BMF YP and pledge their support to help kick-start the journeys of the leaders of tomorrow.
Details: bmfgp@bmfonline.co.za
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