MEC BOTES extends a helping hand to vulnerable community members

Education is of fundamental importance to the development of human beings. In fact it is so vital that a countries economic position and success as a nation depends on it.

Therefore as part of encouraging our children to pursue education and make it their foremost priority to complete school the Department of Social Development under the leadership of MEC Alvin Botes handed over 75 PEP Stores vouchers to identified vulnerable and poverty stricken learners in the community of Warrenton and to learners from Diamantveld Primary School in Kimberley. The value of each voucher is R 350 and the total cost of the vouchers in Warrenton and Diamantveld Primary is R 26 250.
This is in addition to the 475 vouchers which were distributed to learners throughout the Province in the 5 districts. In total the department invested R 175 000 on vouchers for the purchase of school uniforms in 2013.

This is merely a gesture of goodwill aimed at encouraging our less fortunate children in the Province to attend school and promote hope for a better life in the learning environment. The fact they will be dressed in their schools official entire will boost their moral and enhance their dignity and confidence as they will be wearing the same uniform as their fellow learners.
The senior citizens of our country are of the most vulnerable and marginalized members of society and are unfortunately those members of society who finds themselves in the poorest of the poor category. They therefore deserve to have their rights realized and their specific needs to be met so that they can live lives of dignity and make a contribution to our society. We as a Department is committed to work with all sectors of society to ensure the rights of the older persons are at the heart of the development agenda.
Coupled to the handing over of the school vouchers and part of the departments approach to improve relations with the communities and interacting with our older persons MEC Alvin Botes visited the households of our elders of Warrenton. During this engagement 10 families received blankets to ensure that their frail bodies is protected against the cold unbearable winter nights. MEC Botes also pleaded to all the households visited that they must go to the soup kitchens funded by the Department to ensure that they have at least one meal daily.

Issued By
Conrad Fortune
Manager : Communications
Department of Social Development Northern Cape
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