Lions rugby helps drought stricken Western Cape
An unexpected call from the LIONS rugby team’s Rudolf Straeuli, CEO of the Lions Rugby Company, to Water Shortage South Africas’ CEO, Benoit Le Roy earlier this week offering the LIONS franchise full support in getting water to the WC was welcomed with open arms.
Water Shortage SA is a non-profit organisation started two years ago to facilitate the supply of drinking water to desperate communities in the country.
Since its inception their dedicated volunteers have moved over 67 million litres of donated water to parched communities all over South Africa.
“Rudolf and his team are making a very significant commitment to sending bottled water collected from the Lions rugby supporters to the Stormers supporters in Cape Town” said Le Roy from Cape Town yesterday (Thursday).
Everybody in the Gauteng area is encouraged to drop bottles of water collected by families, schools, community organisations and the like at the Ellis Park stadium. The water will then be delivered by the dedicated volunteers of Water Shortage SA to communities without water.
“Cape Town is likely to become the first city in the world to run out of water completely – it is not a crisis it is a catastrophe and we welcome the Lions initiative” said media spokesman Ray de Vries.
“Our organisation is pleading with South Africans to open their hearts and help us collect as much water as possible so that we can store up for day zero which could be any time from December” said de Vries in Johannesburg on a sponsorship drive.
Lions fans have been asked to bring water for dropping off at the stadium tomorrow before the game as well as during the week during office hours.
“We appeal to corporate South Africa to get involved by donating funds to Water Shortage SA to help with the costs of transporting and distributing the water to communities.
For further information please go to www.watershortagesa.com
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