TABLE VIEW LIONS CLUB
Report on Project Ekhaya Kidz
Educare Center, 5 Grandiflora Street, Dunoon
Funds received: R135,000.00
Donation-in-kind value: R120,000.00
Total Project Cost: R255,000.00
Alphabetical donor list: see page 3
Nuxola Vivian Dlabantu of Masikhululeke, a kindergarten we
upgraded in Joe Slovo, introduced me in 2010 to Zukiswa Siyongwana, a retired
high school teacher, who was starting a crèche for 50 children in Dunoon, an
extremely impoverished and crime-ridden informal settlement north of Cape Town.
After months of canvassing, the project kicked off in November
2011 with five donations totaling
R59,700:
R19,000.00 in lieu of wedding gifts by Mr and Mrs Cacciato, Canada
R15,000.00 from N Tubb of the Hendrickse Foundation, Canada
£500 from the Lions Club of Worcester, UK
EU500 from the Lennestadt Lions Club, Germany
R11,500 – a 2nd donation from N Tubb, Hendrickse Foundation.
To provide a basic habitable environment, electricity was
installed, 2 junior toilets, a hand wash basin, a sink and running water in
what was to become the kitchen. As the children had been sitting on the cold
cement floor, we bought 12 junior tables, 50 chairs, also sleeping mats and fleece
material to make blankets.
A 2nd donation of £500 donation from the Worcester Lions Club enabled us
to fix, we thought, the badly leaking roof (in retrospect a waste of money),
fit interior and exterior doors and windows, and engage a Dunoon builder to
pull down half built walls, remove rubble, to plaster, fit ceiling boards and
insulation, and level the rough concrete floors.
The purchase of building material was made possible by a generous
donation from Schenck Process Control Germany (EU2,500) and South Africa
(R10,000), of 1,5 metric tons cement by PPC, of R2000 worth of ceiling
insulation by Isotherm, and huge discounts (2 tipper loads of building sand,
rafters, hardware etc) by Cashbuild.
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Exterior and interior building work completed, PPC management and
staff painted the crèche on Mandela Day in 2012. I had mixed together 75 x 1
liter tins of different PVA pastel colours, donation value R4,500 by Plascon,
to uniform creams, light blues, light greens and pinks. PPC and Build it each
donated 25 lt white paint. But as we were admiring the finished work, the paint
literally ran off the walls: extreme damp. Damp experts established the water
content in walls and cement floors to be as high as 80%.
A new zinc roof was inevitable, plus waterproof plaster to seal
the porous, single hollow brick outside walls. Foundations being practically
non-existent, a reinforcing cement slab around the entire perimeter was
necessary. The crèche was also flooded when it rained as the gutterless flat
roof of the neighbor’s house sloped down into the narrow passage. Drainage and
a roof between the buildings had to be erected. PPC stepped in again with
R25,000 plus ½ ton free cement, the Frankenthal Lions with EU300, Active
Roofing with discounts, and so far, 8 months later despite a wet Cape Town
winter, the crèche is leak free.
We could now buy and fit kitchen furniture, storage cupboards,
shelves and a refrigerator.
Kalley Flooring sponsored matching off cuts of h.d. hospital floor
covering at 20% of the normal price, laid and welded it at cost. PPC donated
and fitted fluorescent light fittings, curtain and towel rails.
With donations of A$1000 from the Mt Eliza Lions/Australia, EU500
from the Kelkheim Lions/Germany and EU225 from Mr and Mrs Vogt/Germany, we were
able to buy educational toys, also thanks to discounts from Plasticland,
skirting boards, a security door, more shelves, and all bits and pieces still
needed.
In-kind-help also came from many other sources. To name but a few,
East Rand Fire
Extinguishers donated fire extinguishers and fire blankets through
Centa Atlas, BMW and Southern Productions paint, a door, food and hands-on
labor, and the response by Table View residents to adverts was overwhelming
with donations of playground equipment, a sick bed and other items too numerous
to mention.
The Ekhaya Educare Center was nominated already a model of the “Early
Childhood
Development Program”, a program supported by the Dept. of Social
Development with whom Ekhaya is registered.
A record of funds received and disbursed is attached. R1,200.00
has to be allocated still and the balance of R4,000 is retained for an excursion
at Christmas.
We attempted to capture the process from start to finish in a
video (see http://youtu.be/A42NlG6-mgk), which we trust will show how
well the funds have been invested.
Gisela Weitz
Project Coordinator Table View Lions Club
30 June 2013
PRESIDENT:
SECRETARY: TREASURER:
Rocky
Wright Liz Houston MJ Moran
C:
084 533 8258 C: 082 924 4084 C: 079 541 8036
E:
president@tableviewlions.za.org E: secretary@tableviewlions.za.org E:
treasurer@tableviewlions.za.org
Table
View Lions, Suite 500, Private Bag X3, Bloubergrant, 7443
Website:
www.tableviewlions.za.org
Alphabetical donor list:
Active Roofing
Buildit
Cacciato Mr & Mrs., Canada
Cashbuild
Centa Fire
East Rand Fire Extinguishers
Frankenthal Lions Club
Hendrickse Foundation, Canada
Kalley Flooring
Kelkheim Lions Club, Germany
Lennestadt Lions Club, Germany
Mount Eliza Lions Club, Australia
PPC
Schenk Process, Germany and South Africa
Isotherm
Plasticland
Plascon
Vogt Mr & Mrs, Germany
Worcester Lions Club, UK
