Help Amanzimtoti Welfare revive its thrift shop
The thrift shop acts as an income-generating project while also promoting entrepreneurship within the community.
THE Amanzimtoti Child and Family Welfare Society encourages the community to support families in need by purchasing or donating items at their thrift shop.
With the non-government organisation’s outside funding starting to dwindle, its only hope for constant income is through its fundraising efforts by means of a thrift shop.
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The welfare’s Poovandri Naidoo, said the income-generating project works in various ways.
“First and foremost, we are a child welfare before we are a charity shop. Our social workers work closely with thrift shop coordinator Kogie Chetty, to tell her what items are needed. Thereafter, items will be put on sale for the public to browse and buy. We also encourage entrepreneurship, whereby people can purchase items at a minimal cost and resell them to make a living for themselves. This, in turn, helps fund us and the work we do in and around the community,” she said.
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The welfare deals with child abuse, abandonment, neglect and exploitation in three formal and 11 informal areas. Naidoo said people in the community are battling to sustain their families and meet basic needs, and with hardly any items being sold or donated, they desperately need the community’s support.
“Our biggest needs are baby items, non-perishable food, clothing, detergents, personal hygiene and household goods. We appreciate and accept any unwanted items that we can either sell or give to someone in need,” she said.
For more information, contact the welfare on 031 945 9509 or at totichildwelfare@gmail.com. Alternatively, donations can be dropped off at their premises on 1 Lewis Drive on the corner of Khotho Mkhunya Road, on weekdays from 08:30 to 15:00. The thrift shop is open from 08:30 to 11:00.
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