City department leaves its mark at the Footprints Hospice

After the Nelson Mandela Day dust settled, Group Risk and Assurance Services, led Rajendra Pillay, spent over 67 minutes by handing over groceries and vegetables, cooking, painting and cleaning at the Footprints Hospice in Orlando East on Friday, 26 July 2019.

The Region D-based hospice caters not only for HIV infected patients but also for nearby destitute families including women and child-headed households.

Unlike most shelters and homes, they have no sponsorship and thrive on donations with one bakkie that they use to ferry patients in and out of clinics and hospitals when necessary.

Group Risk and Assurance Services enlisted the help of other City colleagues in Region D, Social Development and Joburg Market to make the day a success.

Although the facility was established to help HIV/Aids patients, the plight of poorer families in the community forced the hospice to extend its services by providing food parcels in the neighbourhood as families struggle to put food on the table.