Dit gaan rof in die Kaap!
Die Stormers wen en die eerste winterkoue het die Kaap getref.
Dit het tyd geword vir ‘n kaggelvuur, snoek, patats en ’n baie goeie rooi wyn.
Maar saam met hierdie baie welkome reën kruip daar egter ook so ‘n knaende kouerigheid in my hart, want ek weet êrens is daar mense wat aan die ongenaakbaarheid van dieselfde natuur oorgelaat is. Êrens is daar kinders wat honger en koud skool toe gaan.
Earlier this year I wrote about Ashley Kaimowitz and I mentioned a few charities I thought schools could get involved with. One of them was the Potato Foundation in Pretoria.
The Potato Foundation was established in February 2007 and the name of the organisation was adopted around the growth concept of a potato.
Giving is very much like a potato – its roots are hidden and the growing effect thereof is not visible until the potato is harvested. The Potato Foundation aims to be exactly that – the roots within our community sustaining and nurturing assistance to uplift and empower children and give them an opportunity to take their rightful place within society.
Esmarié Robbertse, an attorney who specialises in children’s rights and family law founded the Potato Foundation. She is ably assisted by her sister, Eugenie van den Heever, an accountant. The two siblings have a burning passion for children and advocate the promotion of children’s rights in our society. Both of them left their very successful careers to pursue this dream.
I again want to urge you to get your school involved with this worthwhile cause. If not them, any other organisation of your choice, but we have to teach our children not to wait for the world to change, but that they can change the world.
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free. – Robert Brault
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