Spread the cheer this Christmas season with Bags of Love

The 2018 Bags of Love campaign, now in its 12th year, was launched this month, with the Executive Mayor, Ald Dudley Coetzee generously lending his support as patron.

Bags of Love was initiated by the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, a worldwide charity run by Catholic lay people. The Hermanus conference of Saint Vincent de Paul is hoping, with the help of the Overstrand community, to add a bit of Christmas cheer to the poorest of the poor in the community by providing them with a Bag of Love.

The bags will be distributed prior to Christmas across all our needy communities – and the number available for distribution will depend on the generosity of the people of the Overstrand.

Des Collins of Saint Vincent de Paul, Overstrand Mayor Dudley Coetzee and Bern van Niekerk, the owner of Eastcliff Spar who is again subsidising the Bags of Love that can be purchased at the store.

PHOTO: Hedda Mittner.

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