Tranquil Masiyiwa, Klarika Nettleton and Hlengiwe Ngidi are working together to help both community members and animals in the townships as part of the Ian Tarr project.
Members of the community are coming together to give generously and support a project that helps humans and animals alike.
The Ian Tarr project serves both humans and animals of Johannesburg’s informal settlements. The project was started after Ian Tarr was shot and killed outside the Broadacres Spar off Cedar Road in 2005.
A box was placed outside the shop in his memory where people can leave their donations of pet items which are then handed out in the nearby informal settlements of Msawawa, Kya Sands and Pipeline.
Klarika Nettleton, who runs the project, also collects second-hand clothing and other necessary items to distribute to the community at the same time.
This month, Nettleton took the time to tell the Fourways Review a little bit about those who have helped her work recently.
She said, “Two staff members from the Spar, Hlengiwe Ngidi and Tranquil Masiyiwa, have been a great help.”
Ngidi, who works in customer service, said, “I was telling my friend Jacky about the donation box, and how Klarika also gives clothes away. She mentioned that she had some clothing to give away, and one day she came through and donated eight bags of clothes [to the project]!”
Spar staff member Masiyiwa added, “There was a lady I was telling about the project. She’s a regular [to the Spar] and has made the effort to come through and donate animal food anonymously a number of times. Each time she donates about eight bags of dog and cat food but doesn’t want anyone to know it’s her.”
Nettleton is truly thankful for the continued support of the community, some of whom donate to her cause weekly, helping the less fortunate.
“We have to pray to God Almighty for Him to remove informal settlements in our country, as they are truly inhumane places for both people and animals.
“I appeal to government, council and the residents of South Africa to create a humane society as Nelson Mandela believed was important,” she said.
Nettleton also encouraged the public to join her in praying that the country’s economy improves and that all the unemployed can find jobs, in order to combat crime and theft in society.
“Doing things wrong, such as taking things that don’t belong to you, will definitely not lead to you being blessed,” she concluded.
The Ian Tarr project is always looking for the following donations:
Pet food for both dogs and cats
Tick and flea treatments
Blankets
Old clothes, toys or other goods that can be distributed among communities.
Details: Klarika Nettleton 011 462 1445.
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