By Linda van Oudheusden | Marketing Manager
Dear friends
“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” - Mother Theresa
I came across this well-known quote by Mother Theresa recently and immediately I thought about all the people that come to our Centre every day. The need here is so big it would frighten anyone. Outside our nutrition unit people wait patiently in the seemingly endless queue, and the ones towards the back are wear painful expressions of angst – angst that there will not be enough, which sadly is often the case.
Our only hope is in you, and even though you as individuals cannot each feed the masses, every bit you have given in the past year, has helped us in getting life giving food to those who need it most – one at a time, surviving day after day.
As we are hurtling towards the end of 2016, I thought I would share a few statistics with you that were recorded during our past financial year.
1294 Clothing parcels were distributed
176567 Families received Bread and Soup
32851 Weekly food parcels were distributed
6521 Home Based Care visits were done
526 Patients were treated in the Women’s Clinic
1962 Patients were treated in the Surgery
308 Patients received Physiotherapy
323 Vegetable Gardens Created
4496 Children received a Christmas present
5000 Families received a Christmas Food Parcel
290 Pupils attend our school
When we do tours around our Centre, we mention these numbers to the visitors. Of course, each number represents a life.
Mother Theresa said that she never looked at the masses as her responsibility. She looked at the individual. And so she began, by picking up one person. For our founder, Sr Ethel, it is the same – maybe if she didn’t pick up one person, she wouldn’t have picked up 100 000!
Our deepest gratitude goes to you for every single person that you have helped through your kind and generous contributions via GlobalGiving. You are the reason we can continue our vital services, and you are the reason thousands of people in this township have hope to face another day. Thank you.
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