Help to Mask my School

“Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world” ~ Russell Simmons

Mustadafin Foundation is calling on seamstresses who are willing to volunteer to help make masks for schools in rural areas.

Local non-profit organisation, Mustadafin Foundation, have been inundated by requests for masks for learners in community schools. Ghairunisa Johnstone, founder and director of Mustadafin Foundation shares, “To curb the spread of the Coronavirus in schools and to promote skills development, we have launched a new initiative, Mask My School. We are calling on seamstresses to please help us sew masks for those learners in rural areas that don’t have easy access to masks.”

Ruwayda Ryklief, who is Mustadafin’s ‘Stitch by Stich’ sewing coordinator adds, “The target is to make 500 masks a week for each school. We are currently working with 50 schools (that’s 25 000 masks that we need to make!).

“We have the sewing machines, and we have received a very generous donation of fabric; now we just need the extra pairs of talented hands to help us to reach the target,” shares Ruwayda.

“As we are a non-profit organisation, we rely heavily on volunteers so this will need to be a labour of love,” adds Johnstone.

If you are available to help make masks, please get into contact with Mustadafin Foundation: call 021 633 0010 or visit their website at mustadafin.org.za or media@mustadafin.org.za

Mother Teressa once said, it’s not how much we give but how much LOVE we put into giving.