The 67 minutes for Mandela Day was quite successful for organisations in the Greater Eldorado Park community. One of those organisations was PUSH which is a non-profit organisation that had its second Nelson Mandela Day Housing Project in Kliptown. The organisation which started the initiative last year rebuilt four shacks for four different families, gave them winter blankets and beds to sleep on this Mandela Day.
According to Faith Brown who is an EPW Caregiver and Enrichia Smith who is a Child and Youth Care Worker at PUSH, the families who benefited from the project this year were selected by raffle entries and after the evaluation was selected.
The Founder of PUSH, Lorna Fisher said: “we would like to thank our donors for making this Mandela Day Housing project possible. We built one last year, this year we built four and we are hoping that we can build more next year. As you drive around you can see the conditions that our brothers and sisters are living in. These children are our beneficiaries, some of them do not have the essentials. We want to make a difference in our community, to bring hope to the homes of our beneficiaries.”
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Billy Petersen the chairperson of the Community Policing Forum (CPF) in the Greater Kliptown area was also involved with identifying families who are in need. Petersen added that PUSH must keep on doing the great work that they are doing in the community. “I just want to say thank you,” he added.
One beneficiary Nicoleen Paulman got emotional during the interview, she said: “I would like to thank PUSH because my children and I struggled with our living conditions, our shack was so small and every time it rained, we had to run for buckets because the water would come into our shack. We are very grateful.”
Brown and Smith would like to thank ‘Soldiers for Jesus’ who sponsored PUSH with the items they needed to rebuild the shacks for the families.
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