Mickey Winifred Linda is an incredible South AfriCAN with an amazing story!
South Africa (18 August 2015) – The 60-year-old woman decided to give up her salary as a domestic worker and started a soup kitchen that feeds, cares for and offers a safe place for over 250 children and adults on medication every day!
Miceky came to Cape Town as a young girl and found work in the city as a domestic worker. For 15 years she cleaned & enjoyed the security of a meagre salary. The whole time she had an unsettling feeling that she didn’t belong in other people’s homes. She belonged in her community. She had a vision that she needed to help other people.
However, with very little saved up, and very little support, she had no idea how she was going to do this.
“One evening a man came crawling to me on his hands and knees with a bad stomach ache. I realised his ailment was due to TB tablets on an empty stomach & treated him with home remedies and food. When he woke up he told me, that I had saved his life.”
That was a sign for Mickey. She wasn’t sure how but she wanted to help. That very day, she started “Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen” from her RDP home, using her grant money.
The Yiza Ekhaya Soup Kitchen provides a place of safety and care for children who wouldn’t normally have had that. Some children have started sleeping there because their home situations are not safe.
Mickey’s example and her work have inspired other people from the community to volunteer and help. She stands as a positive role model for the children she cares for and an offering of help and hope to those who are vulnerable in her community.
“What am I fighting for? I want children to be safe, I want children to go to school & I want children to have a bright future”
For more info or to get involved with Mickey visit – http://yiza.greenhome.co.za
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