MOSSEL BAY NEWS - The ACVV Seebries' seniors' homes have benefited from a donation worth R20 000.

The two homes are Ons Huis and Onse Rus. The homes are alongside each other in Mossel Bay.

Lap trays for the elderly to enjoy their meals on, patient monitors, a haemoglobin meter worth R10 000 and first aid kits were included in the donation.

A handover was done by the benefactor, the OEV (Independent Entrepreneurs' Association) on Friday, 3 May, at Ons Huis and management members there were extremely excited to receive the items which they had requested.

Christo van Niekerk, who is on the managing committee of the OEV, said: "We have three night markets - two take place in Hartenbos and one in Mossel Bay - during December.

"The proceeds from the stallholders' fees to participate in the night markets are used to support a charity. The OEV is an NPO."

Van Niekerk said previous recipients had been the Rape Clinic in town, the Mayor's Fund and the NSRI. He said his reponsibility as a managing committee member was the ACVV Seebries seniors' homes.

He said he received a "wish list" from the ACVV and he then gave it to medical equipment supplier, MediHope.

MediHope then provided the needed equipment.

OEV secretary Melanie Sonnekus, who is the night market co-ordinator, urged people to take a stall in the night markets, stressing that all the stallholders' fees went straight to charitable organisations.

The stallholders pay R300 each to participate in the night markets.

The OEV's Christo van Niekerk and Melanie Sonnekus (left back and left front), manager of Ons Huis and Onse Rus seniors' homes Amanda Prinsloo (second from left), MediHope's Izsk Beukes (back, fourth from left), ACVV Seebries management board member Lenie Esterhuizen (middle, in pink), Ons Huis sister Hettie Siebert (behind her, to the right) and Marieth Albertyn, also on the ACVV Seebries management board (right of Sister Siebert) with staff at Ons Huis seniors' home.

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