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Pupils don’t need to depend on cow dung for warmth any more

In a small town called Ugie in the Eastern Cape, 200 pupils will not need to use cow dung to keep their tiny feet warm this winter thanks to the Sithembele Chapile Foundation, which has ensured that their days of walking to and from school barefoot moncler outlet jackets and in tattered shoes are over.

moncler sale outlet Sithembele Chapile, the chief executive officer of the foundation, drove through the night on Wednesday from Cape Town to deliver the footwear. moncler sale outlet

a child is a collective responsibility. Where there are no adequate resources, we must moncler outlet pull together to ensure that no child misses an opportunity to get education because they can afford to have the amenities required to get it. Picture: Nosipiwo Manona

However, he said that more needed to be done.

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cheap moncler jackets “The situation at ET Thabane Public Primary School is painfully dire. These kids will never survive winter without proper school shoes and warm, protective clothing, he said. cheap moncler jackets

heart was crushed when I arrived and realised that, although many children cheap moncler will be smiling after receiving a new pair of shoes, many more will be heartbroken because they will remain without shoes. sits at the foot of the Drakensberg Mountains, where the temperature during winter plummets and harsh snow storms are a regular occurrence.

The man that moncler outlet uk made the difference to 200 destitute young learners, Sithembele Chapile. Picture: Nosipiwo Manona

The mayor of Elundini Local Municipality, Nonkongozelo Lengs, said the school shoes would make a huge moncler factory outlet difference to the pupils lives.

cheap moncler outlet you peep through the window moncler outlet sale at the challenges of living in a poverty stricken area like ours, you may assume that having no shoes doesn moncler sale outlet have great impact on education, she said. cheap moncler outlet

let me take you through the picture there are kids here who walk barefooted to school every day. When it snows, as it will very soon, the attendance numbers will drop drastically. said that, because so many pupils came from poor households, their families couldn afford to buy them shoes.

monlcer down jackets In desperation, these pupils search moncler outlet online for cow dung on the way to and from school and stand in it. monlcer down jackets

helps relieve the harshness of the cold and snow on their feet, said Lengs.

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Speaking to City Press, Chapile said he loved helping out in this way.

cheap moncler coats gives me absolute pleasure to play a part, albeit small, in ensuring that children get an education. cheap moncler coats

moncler outlet “I drove here from Cape Town, but I am from these mountain ranges that can be so cruel to human beings in winter, he said. moncler outlet

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cheap moncler sale Chapile grew up in Barkly East, so he knows all about the freezing winter days and nights. cheap moncler sale

year, I took shoes to my hometown, Barkly, he said.

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moncler outlet online “Poverty should not deprive kids or strip them of their right to education. With the assistance of partners in business, I will ensure that we reach the majority of the children, if we can reach all of them, said Chapile. moncler outlet online

Pieterson Kapa, the principal moncler jacket sale at ET Thabane, said the gift was most welcome.

comes at a time where we face many challenges. When winter approaches, we worry about the children; we worry about the plight of our pupils. These shoes mean the world to us and them, he said.

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The DA shadow MEC for education, Edmund van Vuuren, said ET Thabane was so badly run down that it was not fit for learning and teaching.