South Africa’s premier rare wine charity sale raised a total of R209 000 for the beneficiaries, with charity auctioneer Ken Forrester knocking down, amongst other items, 12 x 750ml bottles of Nederburg Vintage Cabernet 1975 for R47 500 and the Van Ryn’s Charentaise Collection of 10-year-old potstill brandy for R25 000.
Beneficiary representatives Theo Kemp, executive manager for the Breytenbach Centre and Sandra Randall, project co-ordinator for Hope Through Action, were each presented with a cheque for R104 500 from Nederburg Auction team representative Moira de Koker at Nederburg winery in Paarl, to use for their respective community outreach projects.
The Breytenbach Centre is a multidisciplinary cultural centre that provides a platform for the youth to gain access to the arts, also offering life skills to help them make responsible choices, while the community-driven Hope Through Action project reaches out to young people through the medium of sport.
“The funding we’ve received has been earmarked for the boys projects currently underway at the Mbekweni Community Sports Centre,” says Sandra Randall. “Thanks to the generosity of the Nederburg Auction buyers, we will be able to not only help them to develop positive life skills, physical abilities and confidence, but also empower them to cope with life’s difficult realities.”
This year’s Nederburg charity auction will take place on Saturday 12th September, at the close of the main auction. For further information visit www.nederburgauction.co.za
Photo Caption:
Back from left to right: Moira de Koker (Nederburg Auction), Irma Albers (Distell corporate social investment), Sonja Morkel (Distell corporate social investment), Hugo Gerber (Nederburg charity auction), Vernon de Vries (Director – Distell Corporate and Regulatory Affairs).
Front from left to right: Sandra Randall (Hope Through Action), Theo Kemp (Breytenbach Centre), Simoné Benjamin (Distell corporate social investment), Inger Truter (Nederburg Auction)
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About the beneficiaries:
The Breytenbach Centre
Based in Wellington, the Breytenbach Centre is a multidisciplinary cultural centre for training and engaging with visual arts, music, drama and creative writing. The centre’s drama project – story telling through the art of puppetry – involves drama groups from the centre visiting the youth at various schools and farms in the Boland area, where, through a combination of puppetry and theatre, various issues such as hygiene, peer pressure, drugs and alcohol abuse, and animal care are addressed. The project provides a platform for the youth to gain access to the arts while at the same time offering life skills to help them make responsible choices. http://www.breytenbachsentrum.co.za/
Hope Through Action
Hope Through Action is a non-profit organisation, registered both in the UK and South Africa, specifically created to bring about life-changing initiatives for young people in South Africa. Sport (more recently also arts programmes) is used as a medium, not only to develop positive life skills, physical ability and confidence, but also to assist young people in coping with difficult realities. Their vision is to through the power of sport, change lives, bring hope and to release potential. www.hopethroughaction.com