GMA Coronavirus Support: Pensioner’s bill gets settled during lockdown
For some businesses, Level 4 of the lockdown has unlocked the doors to an income, but many customers are now in a position where they cannot spend - even on essentials.
BACKGROUND: A worker at an optometrist in Pretoria was so touched by the frank honesty of one of their clients that she wrote to Good Morning Angels on his behalf for assistance. Antoinette Lategan called pensioner Louwrens Erasmus to collect his glasses that were made just before lockdown. His response was that he does not have a cent to his name at the moment to pay for them and that it will have to wait. Louwrens and his wife have a guesthouse and have not had any income for the past two months - with no bookings for the next three months either. They still pay their staff and help their children, but for now, Louwrens opted for his glasses to wait.
REQUEST FOR: Louwrens Erasmus
REQUEST FROM: Antoinette Lategan
ANGEL: The Good Morning Angels Fund NPC
SPONSORING: The GMA Fund will settle the R2,442 bill for Louwrens’ glasses and send R5,000 in AngelRands to him, to help with other essentials like food for his family and workers at the guest house.
#AngelRands is Jacaranda FM Good Morning Angel’s own electronic voucher, managed and distributed on our behalf by eVoucher.mobi (powered by Celbux).
ORIGINAL REQUEST:
Ek werk by oogkundiges en hierdie Mnr Louwrens is een van ons pasiente. Voor die lockdown het hy en sy vrou beide brille by ons bestel. Daar was 'n reeling gemaak dat hulle Mev se bril dadelik sal kom afhaal en betaal en dat Mnr sy bril einde April sal kom afhaal en betaal. En toe gebeur die lockdown. Hulle is pensoenarisse en het 'n gastehuis vir ekstra inkomste. Natuurlik kon hulle geen besigheid doen tydens die lockdown nie en selfs voor die lockdown het besigheid vir hulle drasties afgeneem. Ons het Mnr Louwrens herhinner dat sy bril nogsteeds by ons is en dat daar nog 'n uitstaande bedrag van R2441.80 is op te betaal. Hy het ons terug gebel om te laat weet dat hy op die oomblik nie 'n sent op sy naam het nie, maar dat hy so gou moontlik sal kom afhaal en betaal. Ek voel regtig jammer vir hom en ek voel dat iemand wat tenminste oop kaarte met 'n besigheid speel (ivm 'n rekening) baie respek verdien. Ek weet nie presies wat hulle behoeftes is nie, maar as julle dalk kan help sal dit baie wardeer word. Dankie, Antoinette.