Alexandra mother makes 20 000 masks to help protect vulnerable community

All Alexandra resident Ponani Shikweni, 32, wanted to do was to try to find a way to keep the community’s youth busy and fed during the national Covid-19 lockdown.

So far, the mother of three has already helped to make and distribute more than 20 000 cloth masks for free in the Johannesburg township to fight Covid-19. She plans to distribute a couple of thousand more in the weeks ahead – particularly to an at-risk local orphanage……more