Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift of the Givers engage government over COVID19 relief
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The speakers discuss their efforts to improve the environment and feed for schools during COVID-19, including pumping water and drilling more holes. They also mention their partnership with base and their plans to use the water in schools to make food available to children during non COVID-19 times.
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Nine, and we just drilled another three to make it 12, a place
called Club Park, club plot, not far from craft unit, and no water
at all. The water shut down. We virtually have saved that town a
few weeks ago by pumping out 2 million liters of water a day. And
they, I must say, it's a fantastic cooperation between base, New Year
municipality and ourselves, where we pumping water into the
municipality system, which is going around to the rest of the
town. It's excellent yesterday, and I mean, on Friday, we were in
petty there, again with the municipality. Called us. They had
drilled 32 balls, or they had given a contract, 32 balls were
drilled and not a drop of water was found. We went in on Monday,
we've drilled four balls, all successful, and existing balls are
from 1974 that were disused. We're starting to open them up so people
can have water, and we delivered 1000 food parcels in Adelaide.
Again. We drilled eight more holes last year, but because of the
electricity problems and the water is running out in a town, we
drilled another four, and we drilling two more this week. So we
involved this requirement in Fort, Beaufort in Ellis, in amtata in
Makanda, again. More craftinet. Cromie Kala, there's just
requirements everywhere, and we're trying to do the best we can.
Doctor suluman, one of the things that I've also seen is that
alongside just the immediate access to water that you're
providing is you're assisting communities with being able to
grow their own food, which I would assume is a longer term
intervention when it comes to dealing with the hunger and the
poverty situation.
Yes, Kathy, we forced to do that. You know, it's just so much.
There's only so much food parcels you can give. And whilst we were
busy net, the idea came up, because of our balls are in
schools. So we told hydrologist, because we saw in one of the
school, there was an attempt a school called nursing Street
Primary. Unfortunately, the day we had the function, two days later,
the principal of that school passed on because of covid. And
you know, we all respects to his family and to the man who passed
on. But in that school, there was a small vegetable garden, and the
idea came we have balls in virtually every school, in craft
unit. Let's use it as a prototype. Let's send water out from the from
the walls. Make kids environmental ambassadors, which we did. 110
students from 10 schools made them environmental ambassadors. The
seeds were given, the TLB was brought, the ground was graded,
instruments were given, and already the seeds have been
planted, what has been put in, and we're expecting growth in the next
few weeks. It was the same school that Minister Barbara Chrissy, you
know, visited, and she's also very keen to see this program extended
to schools throughout the country. The advantage of that is if the
garden is well looked after, we won't have the problem that we had
during covid 19, that when the schools closed because of
lockdown, no children got feeding. Feeding. There was no feeding
program. The school shut down and the feeding program stopped. But
many principals we met said that if we have gardens, we don't mind
opening the schools covid or non covid to make food available to
the children so it can serve as a lesson or a prototype during covid
and during non covid times. Dr Imtiaz Suleman, thanks for your
time. We're going to leave it there tonight. He is with gift of
the givers.