Dorcas Aid donates 130 Blue Buckets to Dumpsite
A joint campaign between Dorcas Aid and FleetAfrica saw to it that 130 families benefitted.
The Dorcas Aid Blue Bucket Campaign saw to it that 130 families in the Dumpsite informal settlement in Roodepoort received food and personal hygiene materials on Thursday 20 March.
These buckets, collected and filled under the Dorcas Aid’s Blue Bucket Campaign umbrella, were made up by FleetAfrica staff during March. By this campaign, buckets are made up to be either food parcels or personal hygiene parcels, each containing a minimum of 13 items. These buckets then are dispensed to communities in need or during disaster situations where families are often left without such basic necessities. From about 10am on Thursday Dorcas Aid personnel with the help of FleetAfrica employees that volunteered, handed out the buckets to families in the informal settlement. For control purposes, one representative from each family was listed and allowed to each collect a food parcel, a personal hygiene parcel, a Christian book or Bible and three Stop Hunger meal packets.
The 130 buckets were only a portion of the large donation of 356 buckets that FleetAfrica gave to Dorcas Aid earlier in March. Only about 60 buckets were expected and Nerine Niemand, Dorcas Aid fundraiser, was overwhelmed with the amazing cooperation.
“The bucket is just that little bit extra for the poorest of poor families – it can be used to fetch water, for washing and various other purposes.”
View photos of the event at the Dumpsite informal settlement:
