Donation brings joy to residents

Approximately 450 residents from areas such as Ottery, Parkwood, Philippi, Wetton, Freedom Park informal settlement and Strandfontein benefitted from the China Town Winter Outreach Programme on Saturday 14 June.

- AVRIL FILLIES

This venture was done in partnership with Keith Blake, a retired police officer from Ottery and former operational commander at Table Bay Harbour, Shuwing Lieu, CEO of Chinatowns and the Tzu Chi Foundation.

“Over the past ten years, I received requests from Lieu to nominate disadvantaged communities to receive winter parcels as that they are handing out food parcels every year. The inclement weather we have experienced over the past month forced me to ask Lieu to move the winter outreach forward by a month. I spoke to residents in the informal settlement and they said they are freezing from the wet and cold and chopped up all the trees in Woodlands Road in Ottery for firewood to keep warm,' Blake says.