Bushman Heritage Museum – Response to Covid 19 (Corona Virus): Food Donation & PPE
- Donation Option 1 – ZAR / R ( SA) PayFast
- Donation Option 2 – GBP / £ ( UK) PayPal
In Nieu Bethesda, the Bushman Heritage Museum is closed for the lock-down because of the Corona virus (Covid 19). But the Bushman artists of the museum are responding to the acute suffering around us. We are twelve full-time participants in an orgainsation who normally make art, like textiles, lino prints, drawing and stained glass. Our museum is filled with giant tapestries we’ve made, that depict the rich creation mythology of the |Xam people.
We had plans for a soup kitchen in our community, before the Lock down. We live in a rural area suffering from poverty. We served food from our Outreach House, to hundreds of people who queued up on the dusty road with whatever containers they could bring. Our community were very pleased and grateful to the Centre that provided food.
Without any income, from the third week of the Lockdown due to the Corona virus, life became even more difficult for our community. The main struggle they are facing is to feed their families. For the next few weeks, we will be delivering hot meals to families door to door, to comply with the lockdown regulations, and to try to keep people safe. We will cook rooster brood and samp as basic carbohydrates, with pulses and vegetables grown on our plot.
With the support of neighbours and friends of our director Jeni in London we have funds for two weeks of food. We need money urgently to buy PPE for the community, and for the project in the longer term.
Our organisation is heavily dependent on the income we used to generate through running tourist accommodation and a tourist restaurant, and through entrance fees to the museum. This income has dried up overnight, because of the corona pandemic, leaving our organisation with a severely restricted income source. Visit our website www.bushmanheritagemuseum.org and our social media pages if you would like to donate.