Students participate in Chaeli Campaign
HELPING HANDS: From left, Leigh Beeton (Chaeli Campaign volunteer), Penny Gaqazele (Red Hawk Spur) and CPUT students Lukhanyo Sidindi and Bahati Mwarabu
Wednesday, 11 June 2014
Office Management and Technology (OMT) students celebrated National Youth Month by giving back to the community.
OMT students volunteered their services to the Chaeli Campaign, a Cape Town-based Non-profit Organization which provides assistive devices and therapies to children with disabilities.
The Chaeli Campaign has been given an opportunity to participate in the Spur Shadow Volunteer programme run by the Spur Group, and the campaign chose to render services in the Red Hawk Spur in Plumstead.
OMT students Bahati Mwarabu and Lukhanyo Sidindi joined volunteers from other schools in cleaning tables and assisting the waitrons.
This is one way in which the Chaeli Campaign generates funds as the services of the volunteers will see it receive a percentage of the turnover from the three-hour shift they worked.
OMT Senior Lecturer, Mandie Richards, co-ordinates this initiative in collaboration with the campaign’s project manager, Debbie Cape.
“I have found the experience to be extremely humbling, as students are able to contribute in such a small way and make a difference to the lives of so many children who are challenged each and every day,” says Richards.
She says she wants to have as many of her students involved in other projects as well.
Student Bahati says he enjoyed the experience and was glad that he could contribute to such a worthy cause.
For more information about the Chaeli Campaign, visit chaelicampaign.co.za.
Written by Kwanele Butana
Email: butanak@cput.ac.za
News categories
- Advancement 12
- Alumni 89
- Awards 29
- Campus Life 22
- Community Engagement 179
- Disability Unit 12
- Applied Sciences 91
- Business & Management Sciences 82
- Education 102
- Engineering & the Built Environment 127
- Health & Wellness Sciences 82
- Informatics & Design 60
- Fundani CHED 23
- Funding 20
- GBV 16
- Graduation 66
- HIV/Aids Unit 50
- Know Your CPUT 69
- Library 17
- News 3631
- RTIP 316
- Residences (Accommodation) 13
- Staff 709
- SIP 42
- Students 1420
- Student Health 48
- Sport, Arts & Culture 105
- SRC 5
- Student Affairs 16
- University Leadership 17
- Varsity Shield 13
- Vice-Chancellor 21
- Work-Integrated Learning 24
- THENSA 12
Latest NEWS
Photo Credit: Iviwe Tom
Postgraduate orientation connects students with tools for success
Tuesday, 05 May 2026
Read more