Golden Anchor Solid Rock Foundation wishing you and yours a very happy and joyous holiday season.
Thank you for your continued sopport of Golden Anchor Solid Rock Foundation
People supporting the event e.g. Social Worker, Standard Bank employee
Social Worker
Some of the people attending
Example of the table
Result is that with love people can change. If people feel appreciated and loved they can change their behavior e.g. below picture shows a person who used to live on the street but with love change his life style. The other person use to use drugs and stay away from home but with love and support he changed is life and go back to school. The person used to stay on the street get employment and go look for his child to be a father for his child. That is what Golden Anchor Solid Rock Foundation stands for. The vision is "Restore lives and gives hope to the hopeless individuals."
Landfill and street waste pickers in South Africa are responsible for collecting substantial volumes of recyclable material, saving municipalities millions and contributing to a generally healthier and cleaner environment. Yet waste pickers continue to operate on the fringes of the economy and are exposed to many risks, particularly health risks which have a direct impact on the sustainability of their livelihoods. This article, using a mixed-methods approach, explores the health risks to which waste pickers working on nine different landfills in the country are exposed. Thesocio-ecological framework was used to analyse and present the results. A key finding was that waste picking, by its very nature, lends itself to innumerable health risks, but that these can be lessened through concerted and collaborative efforts on the part of landfill operators, local authorities and other stakeholders. Integrating the 'self-employed' waste pickers into the formal waste management system should be comprehensive in order to limit health risks. Waste pickers will never have a risk-free environment, but facilitative policies and supportive institutions can collaboratively help to mitigate these risks and create a more sustainable and dignified working environment towards sustaining their livelihoods.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Soli Philander
John Bambo
Soli Philander and John Banbo will do it all on the 13 December 2019 in aid of feeding homeless individuals. Soli will be the master of ceremony and John will be the musician for the evening.
The turn up from homeless individuals collecting the food was good. The people were very pleased to receive the food. The responses were:
"keep on doing what you are doing,"
"thank you for the food as my aunt is sick and needs to take medication. The food comes at the right time. After eating she can take her medication."
"Please look over there, there is a sick lady sitting. Can I please take a plate for her as she can not walk?"
"thank you for what you are doing."
People are showing respect and appreciation for the food.
Food security (or the lack of it) has a direct impact on people’s well-being and is of great concern to many disciplines. The study on which the article is based used Drèze and Sen’s ‘nutritional capability’ concept as a theoretical framework to explain the food (in)security of landfill waste pickers. A cross-sectional research approach was followed, coupled with a triangulation mixed method research design. Viewing the waste pickers against the nutritional capability framework highlighted the important role that social work should play in focusing on people’s capabilities within their particular context.
A local feeding scheme called the Golden Anchor Solid Rock Foundation is hosting a fundraiser so that they can keep on giving food to the homeless.
The 12-member group was started by friends Arlene Louw, 31, and Enrico Sampson, 34, who say they have personally experienced hardships of drug and physical abuse.
The pair who dropped out of university and recently returned to complete their N4 level of Mechanical Engineering: Fitting and Turning, found the need to serve their community when they discovered the “hordes” of homeless people living behind buildings in Observatory.
Arlene is the secretary of the project operating in Observatory, Salt River and Woodstock.
“The project started when homeless people were going door-to-door asking people for food during weekends,” she explains.
“By interviewing them their response was that most of the scrap yards are closed during weekends so they have no way to get money for food.
“We sustain the project through the contributions of our members. We received a once-off vegetable donation from Pick n Pay Observatory.”
SERVING: Arlene Louw, 31. Picture: Supplied
Chairperson Gerald Louw says the project aims to restore lives and give hope to homeless individuals, fight hunger and poverty, provide information about public health and information about the waste management.
“The project’s aim is to feed homeless individuals and show them that there is hope.”
The group will host a gala dinner on 13 December at 7pm at the Youth Centre in Shelley Road, Salt River.
Tickets cost R100.
To book, send an email to goldenanchor81@gmail.com or you can give them a call on076 4317 148. Daily Voice 26/11/2019
Background: Waste picking is not a new phenomenon in South Africa and is becoming increasingly prevalent, with rising numbers of waste pickers operating on landfills and on the streets. Although waste pickers are recognised as making an important contribution to waste management systems in South Africa, they remain at the lowest level of the waste collection and disposal hierarchy. Operating on the fringes of the formal economy with low and generally erratic income, they have limited access to safe and nutritious food. Many waste pickers are therefore prone to micronutrient malnutrition and macronutrient malnutrition. Food insecurity is a constant threat. Few studies have been conducted on this vulnerable group of people, with relatively little known about their eating habits and the impact thereof on their health. The aim of this study was to assess the dietary intake, food (in)security and nutritional status of waste pickers in South Africa, with a specific focus on landfill waste pickers. Study population and design: This constitutes a secondary study which builds on an earlier (primary) study conducted among 409 landfill waste pickers on nine landfill sites in four provinces in South Africa. Data was obtained from a cross-sectional quantitative survey conducted during the primary study which assessed the food (in)security, anthropometric status and dietary intake of waste pickers. In this study, group discussions were also conducted with waste pickers to gain more insight into activities and conditions on the landfill sites.
