Imtiaz Sooliman – Gift of the Givers engage government over COVID19 relief

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.