New school shoes for vulnerable learners
It was described as a humbling and heart-filling experience to be able to give to the learners of Gcilma Primary.
A hundred pairs of school shoes were recently donated to the most vulnerable and needy children of Gcilima Primary School.
Cure Day Hospitals have embarked on a school shoe donation drive on a large scale this year.
Lynda Hattingh, operations manager from Cure Day Hospitals said their dream was to provide as many school shoes to children in need countrywide and provide 100 pairs of shoes to children at a rural school in each province.
It was a goal they were able to achieve from the generous donations from hospital staff, stakeholders, suppliers, doctors and patients.
Hattingh who dropped-off the shoes at the school said it was a ‘wonderful opportunity to think of others and not ourselves’.
“These primary school children walk to their school on dirt roads and through fields with perhaps, if they are lucky, a pair of hand-me-down takkies or material shoes, which are often soaked by the time they reach school or otherwise barefoot. It is truly a humbling and heart-filling experience to be able to give.”
Hattingh said the educators were so grateful to be able to assist in identifying 100 of their most vulnerable and needy children to receive the donation.
“The children lined-up and waited for their sizes, but sang a few songs while they waited their turn. Beaming smiles were seen everywhere and ‘thank you mam’ was heard from all the children before they returned to classrooms,” said Hattingh.
In the words of Francis of Assisi: “For it is in giving that we receive.”
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