Gift of the Givers spend R1m a day to assist UCT students, firefighters
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CAPE TOWN: For the next six to seven days, non-profit organisation Gift of the Givers will continue its efforts to assist University of Cape Town (UCT) students with three meals a day, toiletries and counselling.
The organisation provides about 12 000 meals daily to the 4 000 or so UCT students who were evacuated from their residences as a fire swept through parts of Table Mountain and the university. The fire started on Sunday morning.
Gift of the Givers volunteers packing meals in the Pinelands Old Mutual building. The food will be distributed to about 4 000 UCT students who are being housed in various hotels since they were forced to evacuate campus when a fire broke out on Sunday. Photographer Ayanda Ndamane African News Agency (ANA)
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By Kristin Engel
By KRISTIN ENGEL
Cape Town – As has been the hallmark of South Africans when faced with a calamity, everyone stands together and offers assistance in every way they can. This has again been seen with the outpouring of relief for those affected and impacted by the devastating fire along the slopes of Table Mountain.
Gift of the Givers is preparing three meals per day for the next seven days for evacuated UCT students, and has been preparing personal hygiene packs for the students spread across 29 hostels in response to their need for soap, toothpaste and hygiene items.