Africa-Press – Lesotho. Team Shanghai has launched a campaign to provide sleeping blankets to help orphanages this winter. Team Shanghai is an Association founded in 2018 in the first month with the aim of uniting the Youth in sports through self-improvement.
The Secretary-General of the Association, Mr. Rethabile Lempe Makhobole, said it came to their attention as an organization that it was not winter but more than that, the whole world was facing the covid-19 epidemic, whose symptoms are similar to those of chest to tuberculosis.
“This was very shocking and we realized that in orphanages there could be a need for blankets and we tried to collect blankets to help the children avoid the cold,” said Makhobole.
He went on to say that the main goal is for children to avoid getting sick due to the winter cold. He says that since they started the collection work in early June, the goal is to collect them by the end of it, and then start distributing them home.
He says Maseru here are some of the places where anyone with good intentions wishes to donate a blanket, aka the destination is Sky Alpha radio in Maseru district.
[Tm1] They also have a place in Mohale’s Hoek district which is Bakoena Medi care Pharmacy.
In Leribe District in the Maputsoe area, blankets can be taken to a place called Friendzone where the meat is roasted, “From there if anyone wants to donate in cash we also have numbers where one can send at least from M59 , ”He said.
The contact numbers are 63311332 or 59118495. One of the members of the association, Mr Phoka Matete, added that their ambition was that by the end of this month they would have collected at least 1000 blankets and distributed them to ten homes.
He says they are also doing this to help conserve the space between children in orphanages by giving each of them a blanket as the World Health Organization defines it as a means of avoidance. infection with covid-19, there must be enough space between people.
He says their goal is that even after they donate what they are currently collecting, they will be able to collect more and take them to homes where they have not been able to reach them, “he said.
We are all Basotho and we are Maapara-Kobo and we must be one group and take care of each other, ”he said. Matete said within Lesotho, Basotho children should not be deprived of blankets as blankets are the clothing of the Basotho.
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