GMA Coronavirus Support: Reaching out to the heart of the Kalahari desert to bring lockdown relief
The Northern Cape has sixteen confirmed coronavirus cases to date but lockdown is weighing heavy on the province and its people.
BACKGROUND: Deben is a tiny town in the heart of the Kalahari desert in the Northern Cape, with a population of less than 8,000 residents. According to the latest figures from the Department of Health, the Northern Cape Province as a whole has recorded only 16 confirmed coronavirus cases. The effect of the national lockdown on the people of the poorest province in the country is however devastating. Doing business and creating jobs in a small town like Deben is a struggle in the best of times - and now, the sources of income and basics like food have dried up like the desert itself. The Dorningdraad Pub and Restaurant in Deben is a case in point, where gourmet roosterkoek is on the menu and a donkey cart ride your Uber. They’ve been breathing life into the town for the past ten years, currently employing eight people, mostly women, who are the breadwinners of their families. Now, their doors are shut. Due to this reason, Doringdraad was nominated for some #GMACoronaVirusSupport.
REQUEST FOR: Rachel and Dennis Jacobs and the Doringdraad community
REQUEST FROM: Chantelle Putter
ANGEL: The Good Morning Angels Fund NPC
SPONSORING: The GMA Fund will send R15,000 in AngelRands to Rachel and Dennis to enable them to buy enough food and essentials for them and their Dorningdraad-family. #AngelRands is Jacaranda FM Good Morning Angel’s own electronic voucher, managed and distributed on our behalf by eVoucher.mobi (powered by Celbux).
ORIGINAL REQUEST:
Goeie dag Martin en Engele,
Hiermee wil ek graag my tannie, Rachel Jacobs nomineer vir die Covid-19 ondersteuning.
Doringdraad Deben is 'n restaurant, kroeg en 'n kuierplek vir almal in die hart van die Kalahari, 30 km van Kathu. Martin, jy sal dalk my tannie onthou, jy het daar opgetree verlede jaar.
Sedert die inperking is daar vir my tannie en oom, die eienaars, Dennis en Rachel Jacobs, soos vir baie ander, geen inkomste nie. Doringdraad moes hul deure sluit vir die hele periode van die inperking. Hulle het 8 persone in hul diens, meestal vrouens wat gesinne het en die broodwinners is, wat nie weet waar om andersins hulp as by Rachel en Dennis te soek nie.
My tannie en oom het harte van goud en probeer help waar hul kan, maar hul het self nie nog om meer te gee nie. Finansieel is hul nou in die moeilikheid.
Hierdie hulp sal hulle in staat stel om vir die gesinne die nodige kospakkies te pak, en ook om hulself finansieël te ondersteun waar moontlik.
Ek sal dit regtig waardeer as jul hierdie nominasie sal oorweeg.
Vriendelike groete,
Chantelle