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BREAD TAGS FOR WHEELCHAIRS
Mary Honeybun, who is the founder and organizer of the BREAD TAGS FOR WHEELCHAIRS, a charity organization with a difference, came to hear about a project through which “people collect the plastic tags at the top of bread bags to raise funds for charity projects” and at the end of 2006 she joined forces with them by starting the organization “Bread Tags for Wheelchairs”. Many more people became involved with collection boxes at different shops, schools, churches etc, as far as Stellenbosch.
About 270kg of these plastic tags (about 800,000 tags) have to be collected to buy one wheelchair. So far four wheelchairs have been donated in the past two and a half years. The most recent wheelchair donation was made through Malibu High School on Mothers Day to a mother who lives in Eerste River.
Currently Mary Honeybun is working in partnership with Adri Spannenberg, director of the Polystyrene Packaging Council of SA – an NPO- they hope that soon more people in need will be given their independence.
Mary Honeybun can be reached for more information on Tel: (021) 789 1831.