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IMPROVING ACCESS: Rose Matroos, centre, and her two grandchildren, Dwight and Danielle, with her new wheelchair in the box. Picture: TAMMY FRAY

Wheelchair enables boy to attend school

This week, local NGO, Border Icons in Sport (BIS), in collaboration with Amitofo Charity Care, provided 50 wheelchairs to vulnerable adults and children. The wheelchairs were given to identified recipients at a ceremony held at Khanya…

COLLECTING HEARTS: Some of the bread tags and bottle tops the Sweetheart Foundation has collected in exchange for wheelchairs over the last 10 years. Picture: SUPPLIED

Bottle tops and bread tags used to make a difference

Bread tags and plastic bottle tops are rubbish to the average person, however, the Sweetheart Foundation has found a way to use them to change the lives of those in need of wheelchairs. This non-profit organisation has so far managed to…

Kgothatso Montjane has made history.Image: @CyrilRamaphosa/Twitter

Kgothatso Montjane’s loses in Wimbledon wheelchair singles final but makes SA proud

Kgothatso Montjane may not have won the Wimbledon wheelchair singles final on Sunday night but the Limpopo-born player’s star shone bright as she battled top seed and world number one Diede de Groot in the championship-deciding match. It…

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{WATCH} FRIKKIE NEL RECEIVES HIS ‘FERRARI’

COMMUNITY COMES TOGETHER – Frikkie Nel, originally from Heidelberg, recently received a wheelchair donated by PnA Stationers East London in partnership with the Sweethearts Foundation. Nel has been wheelchair-bound since losing a limb in…

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{WATCH} Wheelchair donation re-mobilises Angie

0 ANGIE WIENEKUS’ STORY is told in her own words here. Watch as she graciously receives the donation of wheelchair number thirteen from PnA Stationers East London in partnership with Sweethearts – the wheelchair foundation. #Tags and…

ON THE MOVE: Sara Smal received a wheelchair at the ninth PNA Wheelchair Handover on Tuesday. Present at the handover are left to right: Lauren Lubbe, Dries Smal, Sibulele Robi, Gussie Eberhardt. In front: Dominic Spittal, Smal, and Darrel EberhardtPicture: AMANDA NANO

Joy over “wheelchair gift”

ANOTHER lucky recipient received the was given the gift of mobility this week at PNA’s ninth Wheelchair Handover. Sara Smal, who suffers from a broken back, broken neck, and damaged knees, was all smiles as she showed off her new set of…

JOINT EFFORT: At the handover are, from left, PnA Stationers owners, Darell and Gussie Eberhardt, PnA mascot, Penny, occupational therapist Lauren Lubbe and wheelchair beneficiary, Nontozinina Nkomiyakhaba Picture: MADELEINE CHAPUT

Wheelchair gives new hope

LOCAL occupational and physical therapy patient, Nontozinina Nkomiyakhaba was the most recent beneficiary of a PnA Stationers and Sweethearts Foundation wheelchair handover. In partnering with the Sweethearts Foundation last year, owners…

MANY THANKS

Eleven-year-old Sinalo Zezani was the most recent recipient of a wheelchair courtesy of the Sweethearts Foundation in partnership with the Pagegroup. Zezani was born with a genetic disorder known as Down Syndrome. Generally individuals…

KIND GESTURE

Vakele Mbaza, 73, (front row, centre) was the most recent recipient of a wheelchair courtesy of the Sweethearts Foundation in partnership with the Pagegroup. After managing well on crutches with his right leg having to be amputated in…

Sweet day for disabled Teba

ON Monday, the Sweethearts Foundation held their first wheelchair handover in East London, giving 84-year-old Teba Debani a better and more mobile life. Debani is diabetic and had to have his right leg amputated above the knee. The…

Gift of movement for Rose

THE Sweethearts Foundation together with Premier FMCG gave Rose Matroos the “gift of movement” when they donated a wheelchair to the double amputee. Premier FMCG (Star Bread Bakery) – proud supporter of the Sweethearts Foundation –is an…