Middelburg Rotary Club handed out 92 blankets and five wheel chairs in Mhluzi on Friday 26 June. Winters will be slightly warmer for the 92 orphans who were identified as in desperate need of some help. Annie Mtsweni from Vukanethemba is the co-ordinator of the project. She contacted Rotary for help as the orphans eat their one and only meal for the day at the centre where she works and she says that it is painful to see the children in such need. Rose Mtsweni pleaded guilty to not having a road licence when she received her first set of wheels. Mtsweni was overjoyed as she says it will be much easier for her family to take her to the clinic now. A person really appreciates their legs after seeing the four-year-old Moshe Maesela being helplessly placed in her wheel chair. The sight of his wheel chair being wheeled into his yard brought the fifteen-year-old Gilbert Tebele to tears as he watched from where he was sitting in the sand. Tebele used to spend his days sitting in the sand in front of his shack, as it is very difficult for his family to move him around, before he received his own wheel chair. Finally young Shepard Ndluvo was brought out of his family shack by Josephina Mokwena, an aid-worker in Mhluzi, to be placed in his size 18 wheel chair. Mr Ndluvo was openly proud of his disabled son as he planted a huge kiss on young Shepards’ cheek. The fifth wheelchair will be kept at Vukanethemba office to transport other disabled members to and from the clinic.
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