Braamfontein Spruit clean-up helps the unemployed
BRYANSTON - Information technology company, Dimension Data has been sponsoring a team to clean up and maintain the cyclists’ route along the Braamfontein Spruit.
The Bryanston-based company has partnered with Fundi, a non-profit organisation that registers, verifies and evaluates mainly informally skilled labour such as painters, plumbers, gardeners and domestic workers. The organisation empowers unemployed South Africans to change their lives through job creation.
“Unemployment is such a sad and desperate situation in our country, and the only way we are going to get unemployed people off the side of the road is for the community and corporates to employ them,” said Leigh Roos on behalf of the company. “Even if it is to clean up streets, rivers or vacant land. We would be going a long way towards finding employment for the unemployed.”
On 20 February team leader Hendrik Mosehla led his team members Walter Makomose, Sunshine Mosehla and Lucky Aphale on a 3km stretch of the spruit along William Nicol Drive bridge to Belgrave Street in Bryanston.
Roos said the company was hoping to encourage other corporates to sponsor a Fundi team. Homeowners and businesses can contact Fundi to source a wide variety of skilled and semi-skilled workers on a daily, weekly or project basis.
“Every income earning South African can make a difference in the life of the unemployed, whether by offering them employment, or by donating to Fundi who will in turn employ the people to work on community projects,” added Roos.
Details: www.fundinetwork.org.za
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