Good Morning Angels Follow-up: An old age home in need of an elevator
The old age home is in dire need of an elevator in their seven story building. Breakfast with Martin Bester and the angels get together to make it a reality.
The Atterbury Trust matched the donation of We Buy Cars last week with another R50 000,00 for Harmonie-oord. The Atterbury Trust has also reached out to their friends at Vibro Bricks, who accepted their challenge and will also donate R50 000,00 to Harmonie-Oord. That’s a total of another R100 000,00!
BACKGROUND: Harmonie-Oord Old Age Home in Sunnyside provides a safe, self-catering and self-sustained refuge to 193 senior citizens, who can only afford to pay the minimum from their SASSA pension for a place to stay. Residents in this 7-storey building often only have their old age pension and are reliant on state medical and other care. Although this is a self care home, many of the residents are frail, use walking frames, crutches or are in wheelchairs.
A lift is a vital luxury in this home, as the residents have to get to the communal laundry, dining area, as well as make their regular trips to health care facilities. Harmonie-Oord has two small lifts, however the one completely broke down and the other has been out of order often. These fragile seniors do not have any income to spare on the repair of the lifts. The home itself supplies breakfast from donations and tries to fulfil immediate needs, but does not have the budget to cover the R50 000,00 cost. That’s why some listeners turned to Good Morning Angels.
REQUEST FOR: Harmonie-Oord Old Age Home and its 193 residents
REQUEST FROM: Various listeners
ANGEL: Wynand Beukes, We Buy Cars Chief Digital Officer
SPONSORING: We Buy Cars has donated the full R50 000,00 needed to repair the lifts at Harmonie-Oord Old Age Home, to assist the elderly residents with their daily mobility.
ORIGINAL REQUESTS:
REQUEST 1:
Goeie Dag,
Ek het die volgende uitryk epos af gekom op Facebook
My hart gaan uit na die Ou mensies wat reeds so sukkel met hulle klein SASSA inkomste wat hulle verdien nou is een van hulle huisbakke ook buite werking.
Die gebou bestaan uit 7 vloere en hulle eetsaal is op die 1st vloer. Ek kan net myself in dink hoe die mensies van Hamonie Park moet sukkel.
Kan ons, ons harte uitryk na die Tehuis toe en sien waar ons moontlik kan help om R50,000 in te samel sodat ons vir hulle die huisbak kan reg stel en moontlik die
tweede huisbak miskien kan diens.
Baie dankie,
Lindie van Tonder
REQUEST 2:
Liewe Good Morning Angels
Ek het gewonder of daar dalk iemand is wat kan help,
‘n Vriendin van my, Marié Pienaar is die Bestuurder asook finansiele Bestuurder van die Harmonie Hof en Harmonie Oord ouetehuis in Sunnyside.
Sy het ‘n berig op Facebook geplaas:
Harmonie Oord – die lae koste selfsorg fasiliteit vir mense met net SASSA inkomste se hysbak het gebreek. Die aandrywer wat die spoed beheer, het gebreek. Die gebou het 7 vloere en heelwat ou mensies wat met karretjies oor die weg kom. Die herstelkoste van die hysbak beloop R50 000. Die eetsaal is op die 1ste vloer.
Ek sal dit waardeer indien u hierdie versoek goedgunstig sal oorweeg.
Groete
Marlien de Kock