Lions appeal for creche furnishings
Conlog donated two 12-metre long refurbished shipping containers at a cost of R80,000 to be used as a creche.
Ethekwini South Lions Club appeals for donations to help kit out a creche at Dakota beach informal settlement.
The area, which boasts in excess of 600 shacks, has no creche and mothers have to leave their toddlers at home alone while they go to work. Often the older children cannot go to school as they are tasked with looking after the younger ones.
Where there are no older siblings, one guardian routinely checks up on the toddlers or babies left in the shacks.
This is a dire situation, compounded by the possibility of shack fires. Dakota Beach has suffered three such fires in the last three years. In the most recent, a seven-year-old died.
In July, PR councillor for Isipingo, Jaco Pienaar approached Conlog in Durban to assist. It donated two 12-metre long refurbished shipping containers at a cost of R80,000 to be used as a creche.
The creche has been named Lindokuhle, after seven-year-old boy, Lindokuhle Myeza who died in one of the recent shack fires.
eThekwini South Lions has adopted the furnishing of the creche as a project.
“We need donations of anything we can use at the creche to make this a safe and happy place for the little ones,” said PRO, Mandy Roux. “We are looking for small mattresses, cots, baby chairs, kitchen cupboards to store things in, plastic motor bikes, outside toys, small blankets and a small sink.
We are in the process of training local women who will take care of the little ones while their parents are at work.
We have also started a veggie garden for the community and will appreciate garden tools as well.”
To donate, contact Lions PRO Mandy Roux on 083-651-3476.
