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<strong>July</strong> <strong>12</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Inspired by mom<br />
to feed the poor<br />
HERE TO HELP: At the CMR’s new satellite office in Parkside are, from left, social<br />
workers Illse Page, Leonice Vrolik and chief social worker Lorraine Macdougall<br />
Picture: SIVENATHI GOSA<br />
Parkside CMR<br />
office opens<br />
SIPHOKAZI VUSO<br />
INSPIRED by her mother's<br />
drive to help others, Yolanda<br />
Mtsaka, 28, of Scenery Park,<br />
founded Buffalo City<br />
CareGivers to ensure that the<br />
homeless of East London<br />
have something in their<br />
st o m a c h s .<br />
Mtsaka said her mother<br />
would turn their home into a<br />
sort of shelter where she<br />
would welcome strangers and<br />
feed them.<br />
“I started feeding the<br />
homeless five years ago. I<br />
used to watch the way my<br />
mother would treat the<br />
homeless while I was still in<br />
high school,” she said.<br />
“She used to call a guy,<br />
Andile, to fetch food and<br />
clothes. I always asked her:<br />
‘why do you care about this<br />
dirty guy?’ as he would come<br />
in and sit on our couches.<br />
“My mother would look at<br />
me and say ‘that dirty guy is<br />
a man of <strong>Go</strong>d. He is the same<br />
human being as you. He's got<br />
fe e l i n g s ’.”<br />
She said her mother<br />
instilled in her the knowledge<br />
that the homeless needed<br />
love and tenderness just like<br />
everyone else.<br />
It was this teaching that<br />
prompted her to buy bread<br />
and butter every week to feed<br />
the homeless when she<br />
moved out.<br />
Mtsaka said she was<br />
introduced to Mandla<br />
Gxumisa by her friend Ayanda<br />
Mdlalo to seek assistance in<br />
raising funds for the<br />
o r g a n i s at i o n to expand it and<br />
do more for the homeless.<br />
“The goal is to not only to<br />
feed the homeless but to also<br />
try to find them shelter and<br />
take them back to school and<br />
create job opportunities for<br />
them,” she said.<br />
Mtsaka said they were<br />
targeting homeless children<br />
and adults in and outside<br />
East London. The aim was to<br />
reach out to other parts of the<br />
Eastern Cape.<br />
“We are doing what we can<br />
in our community by donating<br />
food, clothes, office materials<br />
or resources and by providing<br />
an open heart with more<br />
hands.<br />
“We're also open to people<br />
who collect clothes and food<br />
as this is one of the crucial<br />
services that are in demand<br />
for our drive,” Mtsaka said.<br />
SIVENATHI GOSA<br />
THE Christelike<br />
Maatskaplike Raad<br />
(CMR) has expanded its<br />
services by opening a<br />
new satellite office in<br />
Pa r k s i d e .<br />
CMR East London has<br />
absorbed some of Child<br />
We l fa r e ’s staff and will<br />
take over its child<br />
protection services in<br />
Parkside, Pefferville,<br />
Parkridge, Duncan<br />
Village, <strong>Go</strong>mpo and<br />
Cambridge Township,<br />
among other areas.<br />
The GO! & Express<br />
has reported (“S u f fe r<br />
the children of Buffalo<br />
Cit y” April 19) that Child<br />
Welfare East London<br />
(CWF) closed has down<br />
due to lack of funds.<br />
The CMR has now<br />
taken over by<br />
employing some of the<br />
former CWF staff<br />
members, taking over<br />
the child protection<br />
services within the<br />
greater Buffalo City<br />
area and using the<br />
archives that were<br />
stored by CWF South<br />
Africa’s national office.<br />
“We are open to<br />
people from many<br />
denominations although<br />
our basic principles<br />
state that we are<br />
C h r i st i a n - b a s e d , ” chief<br />
social worker Lorraine<br />
Macdougall said.<br />
Social worker Leonice<br />
Vrolik said: “We<br />
decided to move to<br />
Parkside because we<br />
found it difficult for our<br />
clients to reach us in<br />
Southernwood, as some<br />
of them cannot afford<br />
public transport.<br />
“We want to be<br />
visible within the<br />
community, that is why<br />
we are liaising with the<br />
Pefferville Clinic and<br />
other stakeholders.”<br />
Macdougall said their<br />
primary role was to<br />
offer a space where<br />
people could speak out<br />
if they had concerns<br />
about child abuse in<br />
their communities, or if<br />
anyone knew of a child<br />
who was in an abusive<br />
environment.<br />
“We believe every<br />
child deserves a safe<br />
environment and a<br />
loving family,”<br />
Macdougall said.<br />
Social worker Illse<br />
Page said their Parkside<br />
office was open on<br />
Mondays from 10am<br />
until midday.<br />
“But the days will be<br />
extended in the future.”<br />
she said.<br />
She encouraged<br />
people to report any<br />
cases to their office.<br />
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DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY: The Dance Academy holiday club's showcase performance took place on<br />
Tuesday night at the Arts Theatre Club where parents and children enjoyed a refreshing, fun filled<br />
evening. Dancers from as young as six, showed off their steps through various dance styles such as<br />
tap, Spanish and modern to name but a few. All these dance moves were learnt in just one week by<br />
the participants Picture: AMANDA NANO<br />
Boost for health sector<br />
as 1,000 nurses graduate<br />
SIPHOKAZI VUSO<br />
IN A major boost for the health<br />
department, more than 1,000<br />
nurses from Lilitha Nursing College<br />
in East London graduated on<br />
Wednesday and Thursday.<br />
According to a statement by the<br />
Department of Health, the<br />
department has trained about 6,191<br />
nurses – including the 1,098 who will<br />
be graduating this week – to work in<br />
health facilities across the province<br />
since 2014.<br />
Graduate Lona Mlonyeni, 24, who<br />
said she had always been passionate<br />
about helping people and set her<br />
sights on becoming a nurse.<br />
“It has been a wonderful journey<br />
for me because I am passionate<br />
about helping people through health<br />
care. And it will be nice for the health<br />
department to start hiring more<br />
nurses because it is understaffed.<br />
“Health care is very important and it<br />
should be accessible,” Mlonyeni said.<br />
Claudie Plaatjies said she came to<br />
show support to her mother, Eva<br />
Plaatjies, who was graduating on the<br />
d ay.<br />
Eastern Cape Health Spokesman<br />
Lwandile Sicwetsha said the<br />
graduates are going to be a major<br />
boost to the department.<br />
He said the investment in the<br />
training of nurses was aimed at<br />
strengthening and supporting<br />
delivery of efficient health care<br />
services across the province.<br />
The 1,098 student nurses<br />
graduated in various disciplines such<br />
as Post Basic Diplomas: Specialist<br />
Programmes (Orthopaedics, Critical<br />
Care, Operating Theatre, Child<br />
Nursing, Clinical Health Assessment<br />
Treatment and Care, Ophthalmic<br />
Nursing); Basic four-year Diplomas in<br />
Nursing Science (General,<br />
Community, Psychiatry); and<br />
Midwifery Diplomas in General<br />
Nursing.