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Collecting shoes for Africa
Sophie Hodes and Jade Robinson from King David Linksfield Junior School – both nine years old and in grade 3 – were determined to collect shoes for people less fortunate than themselves.
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School Principal Ruth Isaacson suggested they collect for Boikanyo the Dion Herson Foundation, a non-profit organisation working with indigent children and their caregivers in impoverished township communities within Gauteng.
Tsogo Sun’s Gold Reef City sponsored amazing prizes that the girls used to encourage their fellow learners to donate shoes. The prizes included tickets to see Puss in Boots at the Lyric Theatre, theme park tickets, as well as meal vouchers and ten pin bowling tickets for Gold Reef City.
The girls sold raffle tickets at school for R5 a ticket or five tickets per pair of shoes donated.
The raffle was held for two weeks and the girls collected an amazing 300 pairs of shoes and R500 for Boikanyo.