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Although the items are not brand new, they had been lying in the Park unused for some time and donating it to a worthy institution seemed like the best idea. Soccer balls, dolls, bicycles and writing board slates are some of the items that were donated to the creche.

The creche has 38 children (between the ages of 8 months and 5 years) and four educators and was launched in 2008 and caters for the children from the surrounding farms and Fouriesburg. Since its inception they have been struggling to get some of the basic equipment to use for the children”s learning and development.

Golden Gate has been on a mission to live out the organisation”s vision of “A sustainable National Park System connecting society” and grabs any opportunity available to give back to the community. Thus far education seems to be the main beneficiary. In the past the Park donated school shoes to the children in the neighbouring schools.

Victor Mokoena, Acting Park Manager of GGHNP, said the donation was one of the many projects that SANParks gets involved in to assist the communities adjacent to the Parks, “We are very proud to see all these happy smiles here today and we hope we could do more to see every child in our community this happy” he said.

Managing Director of the Creche, Meisie Khumalo was ecstatic at the donation “we are very grateful to SANParks for all they have given us, we hope it will really have a positive impact on our children.”

In December 2015 as part of the Corporate Social Responsibility project, the organisation handed a fully fledged science laboratory to a school in Clarens.

Golden Gate Acting Park Manager addressing the audience during the handover ceremony.

Golden Gate choir entertaining the audince.

Medi Care kids with a beautiful song to Golden Gate.

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SANParks Northern Region

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Divhani Maremba
Northern Region Communications Manager
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