Sponsor gives back to Harvey Cohen beneficiaries
Don’t exclude the disabled from the outside world.
Most companies take a day or more, called CSI (Corporate Social Investment) day where they go out into communities in need and they give back. CSI day can be considered as charity work.
Valenchia Ferreira from Nedbank south region said, “We are embarking on a CSI project, where we are basically giving back to the community.
“We chose Harvey Cohen because of the severity of the disabled children here as well as the adults. It is about giving back to the community as part of a project that is run by Nedbank.”
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The Harvey Cohen Centre is a centre for the mentally and physically disabled that is situated in Eldorado Park Extension Six in Jan Beam Avenue which is directly opposite from the Extension Six grounds.
At Harvey Cohen, they have approximately 120 people that they take care of on a daily basis.
Cheryl Scott from Harvey Cohen said, “Most of our people at the centre come from the surrounding areas and we are very grateful for Nedbank that has come through to provide us with some foodstuff as we depend on government for funding, as well as companies and local business that provide us with donations and sponsors.”
If ever you have a calling for making a difference or if you would like to visit the mentally and physically disabled as, “Our children and our beneficiaries just want to be loved and they really enjoy seeing new faces,” said Scott.
She openly invites you to visit them, so that you can see and understand how life can be extremely different when you are looked at differently in the world because of a certain disability.
You never know how your presence can light up someone at the centre’s day, and maybe you could learn that being disabled is not the end of the world but a different and more challenging world.
