The project started with the “Ligdraerprojek” asking Westvaal Motors for 1 water tank for a school. They came back with a suggestion that a Proposal be made to The Isuzu Foundation. They have a water for schools project.
The Isuzu Foundation receives a percentage of every Isuzu sold in SA, and uses this money for projects like this.
So Liné de Vries and Karin Strydom formed an NPC – “Tree-Seeds” and sent the Isuzu Foundation the Proposal.
Tree-Seeds is a networking NPC – they present the needs to businesses with funds to connect the schools in need so help (not money) gets to the right places -children that need it! TREE-SEEDS does all the networking and admin, the business does the handover. They receive an 18-A Certificate from Tree-Seeds for SARS.
There are certain criteria for these schools and we did site visits and had discussions with School Management Teams in regards to the upkeep of the systems and using water sparingly.
TREE-SEEDS received the go-ahead for this project from The Isuzu Foundation and installed 10 tanks at 6 schools and 2 creches. Their contractor Cobus Smit, also fixed some of their current leaky pipes, and old Jo-jos and on his own account helped with water-saving solutions for these schools. The total amount of Capital invested was R164 000.
The community should be very thankful for sponsorship like this, contributing to solutions for our water crisis!
The Isuzu Foundation and Westvaal Motors Secunda have been doing groundbreaking work.
In total 14 tanks have been installed in the TEKS AREA, the other 4 from different sponsors. There is a long list of schools that close down in days of water shortage. The children then also forfeit on their meal from the school – for some their only meal…
This project is an ongoing one any sponsors big and small can contribute to help these children with a water tank at their school.
Tree-Seeds will be happy to help.
Contact Liné 082 786 0134 for more information.
