THE Transnet National Ports Authority’s (TNPA) Port of PE charity fishing day raised R25 000 for stationery, which was handed over to learners at Funimfundo Primary School in Veeplaas recently.
Altogether 330 Grade 3 to 7 learners at the school received learning material collected from the fishing day. In addition, TNPA donated atlases, dictionaries and maths sets.
Port security manager, Nelson Masophi, said, “It gives an organisation like TNPA great pleasure to undertake collaborative initiatives, such as our quarterly fishing days, involving the people of Nelson Mandela Bay, to assist us in ensuring that we remain involved in the educational needs of the communities that we operate in.
“It is important that we empower our community schools with learning material such that our learners can simply concentrate on doing their best, without worrying about whether they have a pencil.”
The TNPA fishing day initiatives are held quarterly at the Port of PE, allowing anglers of the city the opportunity to fish securely from the Charl Malan Quay. More than 200 anglers contributed to the collection, providing stationery packs worth at least R100 as entrance to enjoy a day of fishing at the port.
