On Mandela Day (Thursday, 18 July), Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele will lead a group of parliamentarians, offenders and Correctional Services officials to an orphanage and child-headed home in Soweto that are in dire need of goodwill and support.
Media are invited to cover the event. Details are as follows:
Date: Thursday, 18 July 2013
First venue: Hope for the Helpless Children's Home, 1157 Ngweniso, Street, Mofolo North, Soweto
Time: 10h30
Immediately after the above event, the Minister will proceed to the child-headed home in Tladi, Soweto.
We wish to request media attending these events to please confirm attendance by sending their full names, ID or passport numbers, media house, mobile number and email address, preferably by no later than 14h00 tomorrow (Wednesday, 17 July 2013), to Ofentse Morwane at Ofentse.Morwane@dcs.gov.za or 076 419 4884.
The Hope for the Helpless Children's Home was started by Mr and Mrs Mabala in 1980. The couple welcomed abandoned children and those living on the streets into their home and provided for them through their income. The Department of Correctional Services is assisting the orphanage in various ways, including donating food items produced by offenders on the department's farms.
At the second project, a child-headed household in Tladi, offender labour is being put to good use as they are helping a contractor to completely refurbish this home. Minister Ndebele will help to paint the house.
Enquiries:
Logan Maistry
Cell: 083 6444 050
