Two nights ago, I watched Sky News journalist Stuart Ramsey travel to the Lombardy region of Italy. For starters, I have to say I admire war correspondents because of the incredible risks they take in going to peel back the horrors of war for us. To see Ramsay venture in to the Italian epicentre of the COVID 19 pandemic only reinforced my admiration for journalists. His report aired on SkyNews and you can see it here, https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-they-call-it-the-apocalypse-inside-italys-hardest-hit-hospital-11960597 , if you missed it. At one point in the report he speaks to an anesthetist and asks him how he is coping. The specialist responds by saying though they are doing their best and even though there are 100 of them there, "I feel I am not enough." That was sufficient to move me to think of putting something to blog as I asked myself the question, how can I be enough?
The next day, I watched Hala Gorani do a short report on a 99 year old World War II veteran who set out to raise ￡1000 to thank the doctors and nurses of the British National Health Service for taking care of him after his broke his hip. He proposed to do this by "simply" walking 100 laps in his 25 metre garden using his walker. To cut a long story short, the public respond with enthusiasm and he ended up raising, as of today, more than ￡13 million!
We do not have to do anything special to "be enough". I want to think of the school children out there who, because they are on holiday, are not using their tuck shop money. How about speaking to mummy and daddy and giving R10 of your tuck money to the Solidarity Fund South Africa?
There are many people whose jobs are threatened, who are going to struggle for food over the next few months because some will lose their jobs. I want to encourage parents to get their children involved in 'being enough' for South Africa and, perhaps, if the children give R10 each, the parents could match it for all their children?
Just a thought. I have given R500. Imagine if a million South African school children gave R10 each?
Be enough, in your own small way and support Solidarity Fund SA. If you are keen, here are the bank details:
Bank: Standard Bank
Branch Name: Sandton City
Account Name: Solidarity Fund
Account No: 023070021
Account Type: Current account
Branch Code: 051001
SWIFT Code: SBZAZAJJ
