Response food parcels donation- South African Corona (covid 19) requirement: Bushman Heritage Museum
- Donation Option 1 – ZAR / R ( SA) PayFast
- Donation Option 2 – GBP / £ ( UK) PayPal
We are 12 artists from the bushman heritage museum who normally make art, that show the rich creation mythology of the |Xam people.
We would like to thank our director, Jeni Couzyn, and her friends and neighbours in the UK, and also our friends in South Africa for donating more than R 20 , 0000 towards our community soup kitchen
We’ve been told by the Municipality that we won’t be able to serve cooked meals due to the rule of the lockdown. Through the soup Kitchen, we served food from our Outreach House, to hundreds of people. It would have been really sad to our community to just stop it. We’ve made masked from old t-shirts and went door to door to people’s houses to measure their income and need for food parcels. We’ve recorded 252 households. As we looked through the census we found it very difficult to choose who to give the food parcels to. As at seems that all of the Household needs some assistance with food, electricity and PPE.
Together with our director Jeni Couzyn, we decided to use the money that were raised for the soup kitchen, to buy raw food like vegetables, pulses and basics. With the money donated from the last campaign we have been able to get raw food and packaging distribution in line with South African Corona (covid 19) distribution requirements and PPE. We’ve managed to give food parcels to 140 of the neediest households.
Everyone were very grateful and said the Arts Centre did a very good thing, because we think about the whole community and they felt that our food parcels were nicely balanced. It was just here and there a house that we missed, but they were either okay or they already got a food parcel from another source. We almost cover the whole of Bethesda.
Our Organisation will appreciate any assistance towards more food parcels and PPE for our Community. Visit our website www.bushmanheritagemuseum.org and our social media pages if you would like to donate