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."
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
Soli Philander, will be the master of ceremony at the Gala Dinner in aid for feeding the homeless individuals, organized by the Golden Anchor Solid Rock Foundation, on the 13 December 2019
The Gala Dinner ticket sale is good. People support the initiative. Wellington Ndzunga one of the board members is hard at work selling the tickets and fighting hunger. Keep up the good work Wellington (Public Relations Officer)
A Research Librarian, PatiswaZibani, at UWC sponsors a Gala Dinner Ticket to a homeless individual. Did you know that 1 in 9 people in the world live with chronic hunger every day? (one.org)
We can make a difference to fight hunger and poverty
We can make a difference to fight hunger and poverty
