DAY 9: Big Favour comes to the rescue for struggling family
Gateway has partnered up with the Big Favour to make a difference in the community!
This September, Gateway is celebrating their 21st birthday by giving back to KZN… 21 times!
Together with their retailers, Gateway has teamed up with Big Favour and Darren, Keri, and Sky to lend a hand and uplift the KZN community.
From Friday the 2nd of September until Friday the 30th of September, Gateway and their stores will be sponsoring 21 Big Favours for those in need.
Tune in to Darren, Keri, and Sky from 6am until 9am.
Welcome to another special edition of The Big Favour with Darren, Keri, and Sky, in partnership with Gateway.
Nominee: Merrilee Sayers
Sponsor: David Mthembu, store manager at Jet Gateway
Story:
I am a doctor working in a government hospital in Durban KZN and yesterday I met a beautiful lady in her twenties.
Young and intelligent with the world at her feet but so much tragedy had passed through her life.
This is a her story. She brought in her sister's disabled son for his follow up visit. She had taken over his care when his mother had decided to abandon both him and his twin sister.
During the recent floods, she and her middle aged mother were living in an informal settlement in Lindelani and had been asleep with 5 children between ages of 3 and 10 on mattresses on the floor.
When they had been woken they were in the middle of water, mud and debris.
The children had been swept away together with all their belongs, the mother was able to pull out the disabled boy. The young lady was able to save another child . However they lost 3 other children.
Among those was the twin boy and her own 3 year old daughter as well as another sister's child age 10 years old.
All belongings including every evidence of her daughters existence were gone from her birth certificate, her photos, even my patients phone with videos and pictures of her daughter.
They were able to find the bodies of two of the children and bury them but her daughters 3 year old body was not found.
Even though she lost everything, this brave young lady keeps herself together and still takes care of the children that aren't even her own.
She was able to get a new Identity Document and a copy of her matric certificate.
Now she's looking for work to try and get her family out of there.
Even though she wanted to study she feels she needs to work for her family.
The family and two children still live in Lindelani and are trying to put their lives back together.
Please help
If you think you know of someone, anyone, that has a compelling story to tell and is in need of a helping hand, you can nominate them by clicking here or by clicking on the image below..
