Franschhoek charities benefit from generous donations by Leeu Collection!

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Leeu Collection owner and chairman Mr Analjit Singh is a person with a heart for others, we have heard, and he has shown this with further investments in Franschhoek. This time it is in the local charities The Kusasa Project and Isabelo.

The Kusasa Project encourages a brighter future for underprivileged children, by facilitating academic, sport, and life skills development. The Kusala Project has opened its own school, and assists underprivileged children to go to school through bursaries offered to high school and tertiary institution students.

‘We give assistance to schools and the children and through education believe this will have a meaningful impact on their futures‘, says Doug Gurr, Co-Founder and Trustee of The Kusasa Project. ‘We are extremely fortunate and would like to thank Mr Singh and Leeu Collection. This donation will allow The Kusasa Project to grow The Early Learning Centre to cover the full foundation Phase of education from Grade 1 to Grade 3, the most critical time in a child’s early development. With this financial contribution, the number of children who will receive top level teaching will rise from 98 to 120’.

Mr Singh sees education as an investment, and as ‘a valuable currency by which nations maintain economic competitiveness and global prosperity. At Leeu Collection, we strongly support community and social development in Franschhoek. Learning more about the outstanding work people are doing for the children in the Franschhoek valley with The Kusasa Project inspired me. Providing the less fortunate a high level of education will indeed have a positive impact on their personal, family and community’s future. It is also the key to creating a sustainable planet and to foster peace. In the words of the well-loved late Madiba, ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’.

A further investment which the Leeu Collection will make is to the Isabelo feeding scheme, which was started by Chef Margot Janse of Le Quartier Français in 2009. Leeu Collection will fund any shortfalls to allow the continued feeding of 1 300 underprivileged children in the Franschhoek valley.

Mr Singh concluded: ‘Our sponsorships and charitable focus is within our immediate area of influence and we continue to drive awareness and raise funds for our own local nominated charities such as the Isabelo Feeding Scheme and The Kusasa Project’.

Source: Media release from Waterford Communications.