Christmas: Buckets of joy
ALEXANDRA - Christmas comes early for orphanage children in and around Johannesburg, including those at Abangani enkosini in Alexandra.
Christmas came early for more than 2 500 underprivileged children living in squatter camps, community centres and orphanages in and around Johannesburg, among them those from Alexandra’s Abangani eNkosini orphanage.
Nashua Children’s Charity Foundation delivered buckets full of Christmas goodies from six of Nashua’s franchises. Trucks were loaded with Christmas buckets containing essential food, stationery packs and treats for 12 of the 54 charities that the foundation assists.
One of the trucks left Woodmead Makro escorted by bikers from the Harley Owners Group, lead by the Johannesburg chapter director, Jeff Hampton, which added to the overall excitement of the day.
The other trucks drove far and wide, delivering Christmas buckets to Katlehong, Soweto, Ivory Park, Vosloorus, Krugersdorp West and Eikenhof. At each drop-off point, the trucks were met with excited cries, joyful smiles and songs of praise as the buckets were handed out to the children from the charity organisations the foundation chose for this year’s Christmas bucket delivery.
“You wouldn’t believe the difference this delivery has made in the lives of some of the children that received the buckets,” said Helen Fraser, director of the foundation. “For some of them this is the only treat they will get this Christmas, so to be given a bucket packed full of goodies makes them feel part of the Christmas spirit, which is what Christmas is all about.”
This is the second year that the foundation has arranged a Christmas bucket delivery for underprivileged children. The total number of buckets delivered so far has grown from 2 000 to 2 500.
