Lending a helping hand

Writer: Hedda Mittner.

Councillors of the Overstrand Municipality and members of the community are working handin-hand to help the most vulnerable members of our society during the lockdown, including young children, the elderly, the sick, the homeless and disabled.

While Cllr Christine May has provided shelter for over 40 homeless people in the Moffat Hall, Cllr Jean Orban is coordinating efforts with, amongst others, Deputy Mayor of the Overberg District Municipality, Archie Klaas, William Ntebe and Fikiswa Gxamesi of the RDP Centre in Zwelihle, and Louine le Roux-Boothway of the Overberg Wheelchair Association to feed the needy.

Deputy Mayor of the Overberg, Archie Klaas (right) picking up a donation of food from Woolworths Hermanus.

A food bank has been set up at the Shofar Church Hermanus in collaboration with their disaster management arm, Relief.Life and the Red Cross, where donations are sanitised and packaged into weekly packs for four people, costing approximately R350 each.

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