Transit makes a difference

Companies within the
Transit Group have joined
forces to bring food,
blankets and clothing to
the needy in the Nelson
Mandela Bay Metro.
The “Winter Woolly
Week” project is being
run in partnership with
the Community Chest,
which is responsible for the
pallet-loads of donations
that were collected “over
much more than a week. It
basically runs throughout
the year,” says Ryno van
Niekerk – branch manager
of Transit Air Freight in
Port Elizabeth.
This year’s Winter
Woolly Week was the most
successful one ever run by
the Community Chest in
Nelson Mandela Bay.
They collected more than
R60 000 in cash, which
is used to buy nutritional
porridge for the children.
Over 130 collection
boxes were filled with
food, clothing, blankets
and other necessities.
Collection boxes are
placed at Caltex garages in
the Eastern and Western
Cape, as well as General
Motors’ outlets.
In addition, the Transit
Group has held collection
drives for food, blankets
and clothing at all its
branches across the
country.
“We also donated R5 500
to the project,” he says.
The Port Elizabeth
office went out to the
Masimanyane Soup kitchen
to hand out donations to
the poor and elderly.
Started by the
Despatch community in
response to high rates of
unemployment-driven
poverty and teenage
pregnancy, the soup
kitchen has been serving
the people of neighbouring
townships for more than a
decade.
Transit Road Freight
was responsible for taking
the collection boxes to
the Caltex outlets in
Cape Town, and bringing
the donations to Nelson
Mandela Bay.