5 schools benefit from a shoe project in Riverlea
With love from the Churches Reclaiming Unity.
Last week five schools in Riverlea and surrounding areas received brand new school shoes from the Churches Reclaiming Unity committee.
The committee is made up of five churches and two youth organisations that decided to come together due to the understanding that for too long churches have been working on their own and not accomplishing much.
The youth organisations is Unique and Soldiers of Christ with the churches being the Rogers Memorial Congregational Church which is also known as Ebenezer, the Methodist Church, Disciples of Christ, Mission for Jesus and the Uniting Reformed Church have all contributed about R1000 each to the shoe project and they managed to supply close to twenty brand new shoes to each school.
The schools in which they covered was Riverlea Secondary, Wilhelmina hoskins, Riverlea Primary and TC Esterhuysen and the fifth school was Goudveld.
Teachers provided the committee with a list of learners’ names and shoe sizes and the committee went to purchase the shoes for both boys and girls.
According to Georgina Whitby, the secretary of the committee the shoe project isn’t just in isolation, late last year the committee held three open-air services in the parks of Riverlea and one this year.
“Last year we also agreed that we would like to do more than the open-air services, community involvement and that’s where the idea of the shoe project came from.
“First, we thought of stationery for the school children when the schools reopened in January but the money that we had, I don’t think it would have covered.
“Then we agreed to make it a shoe project rather so each of the churches contributed and I got one or two little donations so we had roughly enough money to cover five schools.
When we went last week to get the bulk of the shoes at JetMart in Southgate they gave us a lovely discount, pipeline” said Whitby.
The committee is led by pastor Victor Bernstein who is the chairman, Elize Conley who is the treasurer and Georgina Whitby as the secretary.
Another project pipeline for the committee has found that during the interactions with the schools they have discovered that the teachers and principals have got a great problem with the parents who don’t quite know how to handle their children, in ways of discipline and how to assist their children with their school work.
Therefore on May 13 at 3 pm to 5:30 pm the committee will be having a parenting workshop where professor Lloyd Conley will run the program at the Uniting reformed church.
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