Pink Parade hosted by Springs Rotary Club
The Springs Rotary Club hosted a Pink Parade, at Springs Boys’ High School, on Saturday.
The 5km fun run and walk were organised to create awareness of cancer and to raise funds for Reach for Recovery, Pink Trees for Pauline, and other Rotary Club projects.
Upon registration, participants chose between three different colour ribbons, which signified which type of cancer they were there to represent.
After the race everyone wrote the name of the person in whose honour they walked on the ribbon and tied it to a tree of hope and remembrance.
“We are here to honour those who are fighting the fight, those who have fought the fight and those who we’ve lost to it,” says Rotary Club member Cheryl Havenga.
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Eleven-year-old Aiden Mouton finished the race first and Nicola Judkins was the first female runner in.
Members of the club also made 159 pillows and 163 brightly coloured bags which women use after having a mastectomy.
The Rotarians currently busy with their 100 Days of Madness Project, where they do a random act of kindness every day, for 100 days.
So far they have done various things, ranging from donating money to the Caylum Willemse Foundation and donating food to a cattery, to simply buying chocolates for colleagues.
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Roughly R2 000 to R3 000 of their funds are allocated to the project each year.
The Interact Club at Boys’ High will also receive a portion of the proceeds, which will probably be used for their upcoming outreach to Hillbrow, says president of the Rotary Club Siobheanne Landsberg.
“We try to get them involved in Rotary at a young age, and in the ideals of service to others and to the community,” Havenga says.
Event organisers hope to host the event on an annual basis in the future.
