The NGO not only loves music, but also the community.
On 15 July, at the weekly practice session of the Overstrand adult choir Pro-Musica, a special surprise in the form of donations to various charities awaited choir members. Pro-Musica choir is a registered NGO, and the proceeds of performances done throughout the year are donated to charities and causes.
According to its spokesperson the board decided to make much-needed donations to three charities in the Overstrand area.
“S.H.A.R.E. received a donation of R10 000. This is an organisation that has been operating under the auspices of Pastor Frikkie Zeelie, with assistance from Rob Koppel as treasurer, in Gansbaai for the past 18 years,” the spokesperson said.
“It offers a valuable service in the form of a soup kitchen in the informal sectors of Gansbaai, where they also do tremendous work among youth and vulnerable people, with early-childhood interventions and day programmes designed to keep our pre-primary children off the streets and prepare them for ‘big school’.”
Next to receive a donation of R15 000 was Badisa welfare organisation, based in Hermanus.
Sarie Snyman received this donation on behalf of Badisa, and explained the costs involved in caring for the children in their care, who come from as far afield as the West Coast, Paarl, and other areas within the Western Cape.
Another R15 000 was donated to the Hermanus Night Shelter.
In another emotion-filled address, Les Abbot, chair of the Night Shelter, illustrated the need for funding for the night shelter by relating the success story of one of the people who was supported by the shelter.
Abbott clarified that the shelter was not only a place of safety at night for those less fortunate but was also doing crucial work in acting as a halfway house and a social upliftment centre to those who want to again take up their rightful place in society.
Pro-Musica will perform in Stanford on Friday 26 July at the Oulap Hall at 18:00 and again on 28 July at the Dutch reformed church in Hermanus at 16:00.
Tickets R150 each and are available at the door.
