Another 100 homes receive SADAAC aid
The beneficiaries come from different backgrounds but all share the same challenge, which is not being able to provide all the necessary needs for the families.
Not so long ago the Meadowlands South African Drugs and AIDS Council (SADAAC) endowed their first 100 beneficiaries with grocery parcels in order to ensure that families are fed.
This humanitarian act was repeated on September 15 when a second group of 100 beneficiaries also received groceries. The beneficiaries come from different backgrounds but all share the same challenge, which is not being able to provide all the necessary needs for the families.
After so many months without receiving any food parcels from the department of social development, SADAAC looked at other avenues of providing the much-needed grocery hampers for families in need.
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SADAAC founder Freddy Sithole said, “It has been 15 years since we have been trying to apply for funding from the lottery and with God’s grace we were lucky and able to provide for these families.
“When our caregivers visited the beneficiaries they always had to give them hope and knowing that some had to go to sleep with an empty stomach or drink medication on an empty stomach.”
One of the beneficiaries, Maria Mthimkhulu was grateful for the groceries she received at SADAAC and said that it would help her to use the money she receives from the social grant for other needs.
Mthimkhulu said that the job that SADAAC is doing for the community was very good and that she wished they could do more for other families in similar situations.
SADAAC public relations officer, Adelaide Sello said, “Last week we managed to donate 100 food parcels and again on Saturday 15 we handed out food parcels to another 100 beneficiaries.”
“As SADAAC we will never neglect our beneficiaries and we will continue donating food parcels to the families of Meadowlands that need our help,” she concluded.
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