Senwes Scenario June / July 2016 | Page 6

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AUBREY KRUGER

Drought !

Let ’ s all help Hoopstad and Bultfontein

Drought pellets being delivered at the Senwes Bultfontein Silo .
AS THE DROUGHT IS CONTINUING ITS STRANGLEHOLD ON THE HOOPSTAD AND BULTFONTEIN AREAS , SENWES CONTINUES ITS EFFORTS TO SUPPORT THIS AREA IN THE TSWELOPELE DISTRICT .
AGRI SA DROUGHT DISASTER FUND The Agri SA Drought Disaster Fund , which was launched in 2015 with Senwes as founding partner , increased to a massive R14 million in May 2016 . The Free State , Northwest and Northern Cape provinces were the worst hit and thus far the Northwest has received R3.1 million from the fund , Free State
R2.9 million and the Northern Cape R2.3 million . The fund reaches many towns , in total 150 - 41 Free State towns , 35 towns in Northwest , 38 in the Western Cape and 23 in the Northern Cape . This area is also the core of the Senwes area , which was particularly hard hit by the drought .
10 599 commercial farmers were assisted , 1 566 of which were emerging farmers and 8 657 farm workers and members of the community were assisted with water and food parcels . 39 729 bales of fodder were donated , as well as 26 580 bags of feed pellets , 200 000 litres of water and 532 trucks transported all the said donations .
SENWES A MAIN ROLE PLAYER IN RENDERING DROUGHT AID Senwes recently assisted the Bultfontein and Hoopstad areas in particular in the form of
516 bags of drought pellets in April ( 303 to Bultfontein and 213 to Hoopstad ). In May a further 216 bales of fodder was divided between the two towns . Grainovation made a huge contribution by transporting the donations at no cost . An additional 15 consignments still have to be transported at no cost . A number of other donations are in the pipeline and a number of transport companies have indicated that they wish to join the project .
WATER SHORTAGES AT THE TOWNS The Senwes water project kicked off in 2015 with water having been donated by staff and members of the community . Thousands of litres of water have been delivered to a number of towns thus far .
Senwes even channelled the water pumped from its silo to Hoërskool Bultfontein in an
Outgoing chairman of the Bultfontein District Agriculture , Kobus Steenekamp , accepting the drought pellets .
Food packages being distributed to the needy in the Tswelepele district .
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