Keep Caring campaign launches 2018 clothing drive

WHEN Port Elizabeth’s very own Good Samaritan, Amy Erasmus, started the Keep Caring campaign during her gap year last year, she did not realise how much it would change her.

The newly matriculated 18-year-old said the idea for the campaign came to her in March last year.

“I realised that winter was coming and everybody needed warmer clothes. Most of us have clothes which we no longer wear or need.”

By the end of 2017, Erasmus had collected 2 741 articles of clothing, 256kg food and 30 blankets, which she distributed to underprivileged residents and charities in Nelson Mandela Bay.

Following this, she hosted a cupcake drive in aid of Domestic Animal Care and has also made a number of other donations to charities and schools. Now, with winter once again approaching, she has launched another clothing drive and need the community’s support to make it happen.

The drive kicked off on Monday, March 19, and will continue until June 17.

Houdini has joined the campaign for the second year by providing drop-off points at their outlets in Newton Park, Sherwood and Walmer.

Other drop-off points are Surf Centre in Humewood, Bad Apple Creative in Central, Action Cycles in Heugh Road, Lush Beauty Salon in Glen Hurd, Wayne Pheiffer Cycles in Linton Grange and Gralin Auto in Fairview.

IT TAKES A GOOD AND PURE HEART TO DO SOMETHING AMAIZING AS THIS ,MUCH RESPECT TO MISS GOOD AND I HOPE MORE PEOPLE CAN SEE THIS FOR WHAT IT IS . THANK YOU

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Wise words from some of Mzansi's heroes and heroines

Today isn’t just any public holiday in South Africa, it’s the day we commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre.

On 21 March 1960 69 people died and 180 were wounded following a police shootout at a march against pass laws, so we remember all the people who were brave and helped liberate the country on this day.

To honour them, we’ve put together our favourite inspirational quotes from some of South Africa’s most courageous people.

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear” – Nelson Mandela.

“The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future” – Oliver Thambo

“It is a law of life that problems arise when conditions are there for their solution” – Walter Sisulu

“We need to create the pathways to give hope to our youth that they can have the opportunity through education and hard work to escape the trap of poverty” – Chris Hani

“[Charlotte] Maxeke rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She made up her mind about where to focus her energies. She chased her dreams and came into her own – defying the architects of both colonisation and apartheid. Hers was a triumphant spirit that powered on in spite of the multitude of odds staked against her. It is the courage and strength of the women of the time, Maxeke and many others, which is the focal point, as well as the history of resistance by black women” – Zubeida Jaffer on Charlotte Maxeke

“I must say I had a tough time, but my spirits have not been dampened. You can tell my friends all over the world that this old girl is still her old self. I am looking forward to the day when my children will share in the wealth of our lovely South Africa. When I die, I’ll die a happy person because I have seen the rays of our new South Africa rising” – Lillian Ngoyi

“Women are the people who are going to relieve us from all this oppression and depression. The rent boycott that is happening in Soweto now [in the 1980s] is alive because of the women. It is the women who are on the street committees educating the people to stand up and protect each other” – Albertina Sisulu

“I don’t doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a non-racial society. I have just come from being a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed and the medical officers were mixed – it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting” – Helen Joseph

“Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart” – Miriam Makeba

THIS IS SUCH GREAT DAY FOR SOUTH AFRICANS AS THEY GET TO RECIEVE SOME WISE WORDS FROM THE GEATEST ICONS OF OUR COUNTRY

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https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Life/wise-words-from-some-of-mzansis-heroes-and-heroines-20180321