Germiston\u2019s Leeuwpoort Primary School, located in Driehoek, was visited by Edcon and the South African Red Cross Society\u2019s Germiston branch, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A team of employees from Edcon, one of South Africa\u2019s largest non-food retailers, donated 600 pairs of school shoes to the children at the local school.<\/p>
\u201cThis is the final leg of our Mandela Day celebration,\u201d said Elelwane Pahlana, group transformation executive at Edcon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis initiative began on July 17 where these shoes were collected at a Mandela Day event held at the Edcon offices in Edgardale, Johannesburg, when staff members, including top management, paired school shoes.<\/p>
\u201cThe shoes are part of the surplus stock that Edcon has each year, from the different shops, and some of them are adult shoes, men\u2019s shoes and so forth.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe felt that it is always a time consuming exercise to just bring it to the school and just have them sort them out, so as part of our employee volunteerism programme the staff sorted out the shoes in celebration of Mandela at the event.\u201d<\/p>\n