Appeal for winter drive to help less fortunate wraps up on a high

TODAY is the last day to join The Herald/Weekend Post winter drive campaign, an initiative aimed at getting staff and readers to donate blankets and clothing to the less fortunate.

Since the start of the drive last month, Nelson Mandela Metro residents and readers have responded to the call, donating blankets, clothes and jackets, with donation baskets filling up so much that they had to be emptied every third day.

The last of the donations will be collected at the end of business day today.

Heather Robertson, editor of The Herald and Weekend Post, encouraged readers and staff to keep donating. "This is the last chance to get involved with our drive to help out the less fortunate in this cold spell.

"Please go out there and drop off your donations at any of the well-marked outlets in the city."

If you want to help warm away the winter blues, you can drop off your winter warmers in clearly marked boxes before July 9 at Newspaper House, 19 Baakens Street, or one of the participating Postnet stores at The Bridge (Greenacres), Metlife Mall, Sunridge Village, The Acres, Uitenhage, Walmer and Humerail.

The Herald plans to hand over the donations to deserving charities on Mandela Day next Friday. - Herald Reporter