Flame of hope
LP Gaz Port Alfred steps up for soup kitchen
Runeli Drive soup kitchen founder and host, Gertrude Sigonyela, was thrilled to receive a cylinder of gas donated by LP Gaz Port Alfred owner Marius Visser, this week. But when she heard Visser would be delivering 9kg of gas once a month for the next two years, she was overjoyed.
Sigonyela’s home is a beacon of hope in her neighbourhood, providing dozens of residents with their only proper meal of the day.
When Talk of the Town visited Sigonyela’s community soup kitchen in Nemato at the beginning of August, we reported on her bid to provide more food for more people by starting a vegetable garden.
“You cannot turn people away,” Sigonyela said.
“They come any day of the week to ask if I have something.”
When Visser read Sigonyela’s wish list: fencing for a vegetable garden, soup ingredients, firewood for cooking… and gas to cook on when it rains, he knew there was something he could offer.
He has pledged to deliver to Sigonyela’s doorstep a 9kg cylinder of gas every month for the next two years and this week made good on his pledge with a personal delivery.