Joyland Organization donates food to those in need in Kliptown
Joyland Brings joy to community during lockdown.
The national lockdown has taken a toll on the lives of the citizens and non-citizens who are now residing in the country. Majority of the people are not going to work, and no work means no pay for some. Retrenchments are taking place in workplaces due to lack of finances and labour during these trying times.
Joyland social events have taken it upon themselves to help those in crisis during this pandemic by giving food parcels and sanitary products to the needy.
Joyland social events is an organizational structured private company founded by Goitsemang Eland (23) and Relebohile Mokone (22) which they registered in February 2020 but have done projects prior registration in 2019.
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They deal with community-based needs, charity drives, donations, youth and empowerment and fundraising. On Wednesday, 13 May they visited the township of Kliptown to donate food parcels to ten families and sanitary products to the young girls in the community.
The company has had financial struggles but has been able to receive funding from project to project.
“The company has an organisational structure which makes it difficult for us to receive donations and financial support from big corporate as most of them are made to NGO’s. For our food parcel event we were funded by Mrs Kristen Boening from Germany,” said Eland.
Motshidisi Motloung (23) who is a resident of Kliptown was the one who located the families and invited Joyland to come and help the residents of Kliptown.
“I saw the need of intervening to help when I saw that food parcels were not being given to without the South African Identity Document. Some of the people are not working and some are being retrenched,” said Motloung.
She then continued to explain that she works at NGO so such projects are close to her heart and giving back to her community has been she has always been passionate about, as she saw that the living conditions in her community were not healthy.
When Soweto Urban asked them about their goals, they explained that their short-term goal is to continue giving out food parcels during the lockdown and get to work on what they had planned for the end once this pandemic subsides.
The pandemic has had a negative impact on the company. “We had to postpone our projects which has affected the roll on and sanitary towel donation drive and we were just beginning to build our brand, but most of our work is on hold which is a delay to progress,” said Mokone.
Joyland said that they are managing to stay afloat by engaging on Facebook where they at least post updates and comforting messages around COVID-19.
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