Some had been waiting for years for a wheelchair, having to rely on carers or family to help them to the bathroom or to venture outside for some fresh air. Their lives changed when Gift of the Givers handed out wheelchairs at the Missionvale Care Centre in Nelson Mandela Bay and in Walmer, Gqeb.
Missionvale Care Centre in Nelson Mandela Bay used Mandela Day to showcase the talents of local entrepreneurs and distribute the CVs of those seeking work.
In a bid to empower the youth at Missionvale Care Centre, BASF has stepped in to provide a unique opportunity and upskill the pupils through the donation of 40 lesson kits.
Children in the Eastern Cape are eating cow dung and leaves to have something in their stomach to take their antiretrovirals. Food shortages in the province have hit the poor especially hard, and according to the latest figures it has lost track of one child in every four that have been started.
SPONSORED | With this donation, the Incubating Great Engineering Minds programme and Missionvale Care Centre can continue their work in improving the lives of disadvantaged communities