On Wednesday 20 July Cure Paarl donated 190 pairs of shoes to learners at Mbekweni Primary School.
According to Liezl Muller, Marketing and PR Manager of Cure, the company’s supporting doctors, Drs Roland Berry, André van Straten and Christo Lourens, and company staff gave a financial contribution to purchase the shoes. Also, Louise Hamman, Marketing Executive of Pepkor, Rawson Properties and Van Wyk en Van Heerden Attorneys donated school socks for the children.
“Cure Day Hospitals lives out our ‘C’ for Compassion in our Cure values and proudly participates yearly in various community initiatives for Mandela Day,” Muller said. “The theme for this year is ‘Do what you can, with what you have, wherever you are’, and we have done just that. This year we have embarked on a school-shoe donation drive on a large scale. We are not only contributing to our learners in need of school shoes, but are helping our planet by recycling various used plastic items and using them in making school shoes, or else they would ordinarily be discarded as waste.
“We realised the need for learners to be equipped to learn, especially the comfort of school shoes. Our dream was to provide as many school shoes as possible to children countrywide, achieved through generous donations from hospital staff, stakeholders, suppliers, doctors and patients.”
