ADCOCK INGRAM AND PANADO® SHARE A DOSE OF CARE WITH HOT 102.7 FM’S TEDDYTHON

Sharing ‘A Dose Of Care’...

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Adcock Ingram and Panado® recently extended its support to HOT 102.7 FM's Teddython through Panado®'s ‘A Dose Of Care' campaign, contributing to the astonishing R8.9 million raised for Hot Cares. These funds will be used to continue uplifting the community and making an impact with their four areas of focus being Humanitarian and Welfare, Medical, Education, and Animal Welfare.

Panado® through its ‘A Dose of Care' campaign donated 1 000 Panado® care packs filled with essentials for kids such as stationery, confectionary, and personal care items, valued at R300 000.

In addition to the 1 000 Panado® care packs, Adcock Ingram, a partner of the My Walk initiative, supported the contribution by donating 1 700 pairs of much-needed school shoes to the value of R60 000.

My Walk is an innovative partnership between Adcock Ingram Critical Care and Netcare, aimed at improving the lives of school children from underprivileged communities by providing learners with school shoes.  Millions of used, non-hazardous hospital PVC drip bags, oxygen masks, and associated tubing destined for landfill is now recycled into new school shoes. We encourage other companies to buy shoes from My Walk and donate to those in need.

“While it goes without saying that education is a powerful tool for breaking the cycle of poverty, some children lack adequate school supplies, which may hinder learning. Caring and practicing Ubuntu is the South African way, and we hope that “A Dose of OUR Care” goes a long way to make a meaningful difference in the lives of our children,”

said Farzana Hoosen, Head of Marketing for Adcock Ingram Consumer Division.

The first recipients of the donation of Panado® care packs and school shoes include 100 children from the Hlalisekani Playgroup, situated in the Kya Sands informal pipeline settlement in Bloubosrand, one of the poorest informal settlements in Johannesburg.

While building a non-profit creche on land used as a rubbish dump was challenging, the principal of Hlalisekani Playgroup, Thami Qukwana, was determined to provide a safe refuge for vulnerable children while their parents are at work.

She started looking after children in the community whom she found playing unattended down by the river, which was a dangerous area where child rapes had been reported. Thami was unemployed at the time and felt the call to look after the community’s vulnerable children while their parents were working.

Within a few months, Thami had a small group of children who regularly spent the day in her care. Today Hlalisekani Playgroup is a fully functioning and thriving creche. 

Over the past few years, Hot Cares, together with various partners, erected a secure fence, put in two classrooms and a kitchen, installed a JoJo tank, and plumbed water, mattresses for the little ones to sleep, chairs, tables, early childhood development equipment, cooking facilities and are upskilling the teachers to ensure the children are ready for Grade 1.