Times Of Swaziland: CHARITY CUP UP LIFTS  GOGO NDE’S ORPHANAGE

CHARITY CUP UP LIFTS  GOGO NDE’S ORPHANAGE
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BY NTOKOZO MAGONGO on 30/07/2017 10:06:00


HLATIKHULU – There is nothing as inspiring as seeing the charitable side of
the people’s sport, football.
Over 20 orphaned children under the care of Gogo Nde Orphanage in Hlatikhulu
experienced the philanthropic side of football, through the Swazi Telecom
Charity Cup community visit. The event yesterday provided soccer players,
officials and SPTC staff an opportunity to aid the needy children to, among
other things, plough a vegetable garden they have longed for years to do.
The visitors, who came courtesy of the Swazi Telecom Charity Cup, also cleaned
the orphanage’s pigstyle and also painted the centre’s soup kitchen. The
Swazi Telecom Charity Cup made sure that all that is done will turn benefit the
children living at the orphanage.
Swaziland Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (SPTC) Managing Director
Petros Dlamini led from the front by fully participating in the manual work
alongside players at the centre situated at a community called KaZenzile.
There was also Principal Secretary in the Ministry of ICT Bhekithemba Gama  who
was full of praise for the hard work and positive contribution made by Swazi
Telecom to the underprivileged.
Gog Nde, whose real name is Tsabile Victoria Simelane, nee Mndzebele, said she
was short of words to describe the assistance they were getting from the Swazi
Telecom Charity Cup. Gog Nde stays with 17 children at her home and six are
living in an orphanage.
“This is through God’s work. There are many orphaned children and we are
happy that through the Swazi Telecom Charity Cup, the children’s future looks
bright. There are children who need help as they are unable to do anything by
themselves. We are happy that we done with the kitchen now and we are shot of a
solar system to warm the water as most of the children are attending school and
they are up as early as 5am. They walk to school as there is no transport and it
would be good to see them bathing with warm water, especially now in winter,’
she said.
She said in the orphanage, not only children are being taken care of but even
elders and people with disabilities.