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4 Strandfontein CPF chair Sandy Schuter Flowers hands over the first hazmat suit collected to EMS staffer Shanaaz Taliep.
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partnership between two community organisations to offer much needed supplies to residents and those on the front line is in need of public support. The Schaapkraal Community Forum (SCF) partnered with the Strandfontein Community Policing Forum (CPF) in a bread collection drive that will feed hungry residents across the city, and additionally will assist in the collection of hazmat suits that will be donated to local front line emergency services personnel. The organisations have partnered with another body, who has pledged to donate one suit per 500 loaves of bread collected. “We have seen the need with the EMS staff where they have protested and downed tools because of inadequate protective gear,” says Sandy Schuter-Flowers, Strandfon-
tein CPF chair. Schuter-Flowers says SCF chair Redaa Ameeroedien had networked around this issue and partnered with a company. “(This partnership is that) if we get residents to donate an R8 towards a loaf of bread using a website, for every 500 loaves of bread, one EMS member is able to get a suit,” says Schuter-Flowers. She says they became concerned over the lack of equipment provided to these emergency staff. “What makes them different from any other front line staff or essential service workers? They are working in the health fraternity and they are working directly with and exposed directly to patients tested for Covid-19,” she says. Their concerns stem from staff who test negative but need to go home to their families and risk possibly infecting them. She adds that the EMS staff come in contact with many people and should one be infected, it could see scores going into quarantine and result in weaken-
ing of the health system. “We have tried to turn this into a positive, telling the community that with every R8 spent on a loaf of bread, we can feed 500 families in any community in Cape Town and at the same time, we can at least protect one EMS member with a suit,” she says. They have already collected their first 500 loaves and have handed over the first suit. “We cannot save the whole of Cape Town. We cannot kit everyone, but we are looking at how can we (as these two organisations) make a positive impact and make a positive change in these communities because we are in need of these services,” she says. “We are in need of them as much as they are in need of us. They are tired and weary. They must be extremely exhausted and the last thing they need now is not having the safety care.” The organisations are calling on residents to donate their R8 to assist in feeding families but also
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keeping emergency service workers safe. Those wanting to donate will be directed to a RT Zone page and issued with an invoice. This can then be deposited toward the initiative. V Visit https://rtzone.catalog.to/ and then select daily essential stock deals as well as bread run.
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