By Henry Booysen07 December 2007
Tomorrow night Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille will be switching on a Christmas trees of a different kind.
According to one of the project managers of the event Di Worsley the event will be amazing as it will involve children from the Indlovu Youth Centre in Monwabisi Park squatter camp.
The 65 children from the squatter camp created all the decorations for the event with plastic bottles and other waste material. The tree trunks of the Christmas trees were cut from the alien Black Wattle trees and will be part of the Christmas forest that will be created.
“The kids have been cleaning and cutting them into flowers, painting them, for the mayors Christmas forest, its just not one tree but 50 trees,” says Worsely.
The children aged between 7 and 19 years and their parents will be joined by members of Monwabisi Park for tomorrow night’s ceremony.
“The lights that the mayor will switch on tomorrow is a result of a visit she done to Monwabisi park in Khayelitsha and it aims to make awareness of recycling, energy-saving, and income generation in poorer communities,” says Fritz Martz Manager of the Protocol and Mayoral Events of the City of Cape Town.
The ceremony takes place at the Cape Town Civic Centre on the 8th of December 2007, and starts at 6pm.
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