Drop-in centre for street people opened
Mould Empower Serve (MES) and the Voortrekker Road Corridor Improvement District (VRCID) recently established a new Drop-in Centre which will provide social relief, rehabilitation as well as offer skills development to street people within the Parow area. Since lockdown started poverty has risen in Parow which has increased the need for social relief (clothes […]
The Green Times: South Africa’s 2021 recycling heroes announced
Enterprising individuals and organisations across SA are rethinking the recyclability of packaging, educating and uplifting communities, and creating revenue streams among waste reclaimers and SMMEs to boost the circular economy and the environment. From Paarl to Fisantekraal and Zebediela to KwaMhlanga, innovative South Africans are turning recyclable waste into revenue streams, uplifting communities and creating […]
Good News Daily: South Africa’s 2021 recycling heroes have been announced
Enterprising individuals and organisations across SA are rethinking the recyclability of packaging, educating and uplifting communities, and creating revenue streams among waste reclaimers and SMMEs to boost the circular economy and the environment. From Paarl to Fisantekraal and Zebediela to KwaMhlanga, innovative South Africans are turning recyclable waste into revenue streams, uplifting communities and creating […]
GoodThingsGuy: These are the Recycling Heroes of 2021 Awarded for their Efforts
From recycling initiatives promoting education to the top women in recycling; these are the heroes of recycling being given PETCO awards for 2021. South Africa (03 March 2021) – The PETCO Awards recognise leadership and future-thinking across the PET industry and beyond in addressing recycling, reuse and waste minimisation. The PETCO Awards is the premier national […]
New field worker joins the VRCID team
The VRCID’s social field workers are from left, Allistair Scholtz, Veronica Geduld and Tonio Gantan. With the growing number of homeless and vulnerable people in Bellville and Parow, social development and upliftment remains a priority for the Voortrekker Road Corridor Improvement District VRCID , the organisation says. Tonio Gantana, a new field worker, has been […]
Haweloses treur oor held
Tientalle mense het verlede week die gedenkdiens vir die gemeenskapswerker Jacques Pietersen 55 in die Presbiteriaanse kerk in Bellville bygewoon. Jacques het hoofsaaklik met haweloses gewerk en was die afgelope paar jaar betrokke by onder meer Mes, die organisasie wat met haweloses werk, die Voortrekkerkorridorverbeteringsdistrik VRCID en die Tygerberg Association for Street People Tasp. Hy […]
Haweloses woon gedenkdiens by
Tientalle mense het verlede week die gedenkdiens vir die gemeenskapswerker Jacques Pietersen 55 in die Presbiteriaanse kerk in Bellville bygewoon. Jacques het hoofsaaklik met haweloses gewerk en was die afgelope paar jaar betrokke by onder meer Mes, die organisasie wat met haweloses werk, die Voortrekkerkorridorverbeteringsdistrik VRCID en die Tygerberg Association for Street People Tasp . […]
Solution to library parking
NIELEN DE KLERK There may finally be a solution to the problem of parking at Bellville Library. The City of Cape Town has allocated 10 parking bays for the exclusive use for visitors to the library centre. Three workers from the Expanded Public Works Programme EPWP have been monitoring the parking situation since 20 October. […]
Crime – real and acted in Bellville
NIELEN DE KLERK Numerous gunshots rang out in Bellville over the weekend for a film shoot taking place near the CBD. The undisclosed movie’s filming took place in the vicinity. A scene was also filmed in Mabel Street, Oakdale. In a scene, an actor who plays a suspect was chased by a “policeman”. The Voortrekker […]
Homeless given a lifeline during pandemic
During the peak of the Covid19 pandemic, the Voortrekker Road Corridor Improvement District VRCID , along with its partner organisations and nongovernment organisations NG05 , had to shift its social development services towards providing relief to those in need. As the national lockdown restrictions started to ease the organisation’s emphasis moved back towards social development […]
