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“Dit is ‘n wonderlike dag vir die mense van Suid-Afrika wat die Boere in Nood-groep op Facebook ondersteun,” sê die organiseerders. Die groep is gestig om boere wat deur die droogte ramp binne Suid-Afrika geraak word te ondersteun. Die inisiatief wat in November 2015 begin is, voor ander organisasies en georganiseerde landbou-organisasies, is vandag die snelgroeiendste Facebook-groep in Suid-Afrika. In die tweede posisie is die Facebook-groep wat help om water te versprei na Suid-Afrikaners wat ’n skaarste aan water ondervind – Water Shortage South Africa.

Caroline van Saasen, stigter van WSSA het met ‘n werknemer van die LA Times gepraat en ’n vrou van Facebook. “Sy was die een wat vir my gesê het dat ons die groep op Facebook is wat die tweede vinnigste groei en dat albei die top-groepe Suid-Afrikaans is.  ‘Boere in Nood’ is nommer een,” sê Van Saasen.

Die BIN-projek is ʼn skarewerwingsprojek en het al honderde boere in erge droogtetoestande regoor Suid-Afrika gehelp. Die Boere in Nood-groep was eerste op die grond en besig deur Kersfees en Nuwejaar om boere by te staan.

Die direkteure van dié nie-winsgewende organisasie, NC Schoombee (stigter), Nico Gerber en Carina Swartz, het die nood op voetsoolvlak raakgesien en het besluit om in te spring en werk te maak van die saak. Hulle het sosiale media gebruik om ʼn noodroep te begin na die burgers van Suid-Afrika. Die blad het binne 10 weke oor die 45 000 lede bereik en fondse het wêreldwyd vanaf Amerika, Brittanje, Europa en Kanada begin instroom.

NC Schoombee sê hy is so dankbaar om te sien dat sy visie wat deur die Here gegee is, posgevat het op die manier wat dit geskied het. “Die mense op voetsoolvlak is dié wat die verskil maak en ons is dankbaar teenoor al die lede van ons blad wat hande uitgesteek het om te help.” Die groep doen ook ‘n beroep op kunstenaars en bekende persone om hulle gewig saam met die mense in te gooi.

Verskeie boere en vervoermaatskappye hettot dusver gratis hulp gebied aan die groep. “Ons doen ʼn beroep op Suid-Afrika en die wêreld om hande te vat met ons en nog fondse, voer en vervoer beskikbaar te stel vir ons boere in die ramp,” sê die groep.

“Mense maak die verskil wat die verskil maak. Saam kan ons ‘n verskil maak.’

Boere wat in nood is, asook skenkers, is welkom om met Carina Swartz by die e-posadres boereinnood[by]gmail.com kontak te maak.

Die publiek kan aansluit en help om saam ʼn verskil te maak by die Facebookgroep, Boere in Nood.

 

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9 responses to “Boere in Nood is snelgroeiendste Facebook-groep ter wêreld en help boere landwyd”

  1. Rifrug Avatar
    Rifrug

    “‘n werkemern van die LA Times” … werknemer?

    1. Riempies Avatar
      Riempies

      Mensi kanny reigtespelling off taal eet nie – ghaan jy ook bydraa vir die boerhe of gaan jy jouse regtespeling eeet?

      1. Rifrug Avatar
        Rifrug

        Pro-Afrikaanse Aksiegroep … Lunsriem, dit is reeds duidelik dat jy TEEN goeie Afrikaans en regte spelling is en met opset verkeerd spel. Jy doen lustig mee aan die afbreek van Standaardafrikaans in ‘n poging om dit te verbaster met Kaaps.

        Met jou stelling “Mensi kanny reigtespelling off taal eet nie” stel jy ook jou onkunde ten toon. Omdat ek kan sien dat jy nie goeie Afrikaans kan waardeer nie – haal ek die volgende vir jou sommer in Engels aan …

        “While a post may look ready to publish at first glance, it’s likely that there are some spelling and grammar errors waiting to attack your content’s credibility.

        Be aware that your content often serves as the first line of communication between you and a potential customer. Is your bad grammar costing you opportunities?

        We’ve explained how grammar has the ability to negatively impact your bottom line …”

        http://www.impactbnd.com/blog/how-bad-grammar-is-affecting-your-companys-bottom-line

      2. Arnieann Avatar
        Arnieann

        Korrek.
        Mense wat ander help word nie eers gevra of hulle kan spel nie.

        1. Arnieann Avatar
          Arnieann

          Dit is wat die brein instaat is om te doen. Selfs al “Proef lees” jy jou kommentaar.

    2. Arnieann Avatar
      Arnieann

      Dit is tog duidelik dat “werkemern” nie uit onkunde verkeerd gespel is nie.
      Selfs met proeflees glip daar foute in.

  2. Gas 2 Avatar
    Gas 2

    Hierdie is ‘n baie belangrike inisiatief: dit toon dat mense wat om een of ander rede geisoleerd is met watter probleem ook-al nie hoef te ly nie en dat onderdrukkers nie daarin kan slaag om iemand te isoleer nie.

  3. A Stuijt Avatar
    A Stuijt

    Die inisiatiewe is briljant en ek wens altwee groepe baie sukses toe. http://www.socialbakers.com/statistics/facebook/pages/total/south-africa/media/

  4. A Stuijt Avatar
    A Stuijt

    Much of South Africa’s drinking water is ‘critically poisoned with microcystin toxin’ – warns top water-expert Anthony Turton

    22 January 2016 – “Farmers in Need” (Boere in Nood) and “Water Shortage South Africa’ are fast-growing ‘agricultural’ crowd-funding facebook pages and help drought-stricken farmers in South Africa

    Boere in Nood was launched in November 2015 and distributes livestock fodder to farmers countrywide.

    Founder NC Schoombee, co-founders Nico Gerber and Carina Swartz recognised the growing need for drinking water, jumped in and used social media to raise emergency calls for help.

    Within ten weeks it gained 46,000+ members and still growing fast. Funding started arriving from the USA, Great Britain, Europe and Canada.

    – As a matter of fact, Boere in Nood/Farmers in Need have been so succesful that scamsters soon arrived and started collecting funds which never reach Boere in Nood, they warned on 22 January 2016:

    — https://www.facebook.com/groups/925517180818254/permalink/953350218034950/

    Over 3million liters of water delivered in 26 days by Water Shortage South Africa:

    — And ‘Water Shortage South Africa’ ‘s media liaison Ray de Vries wrote on its facebook page with 21,500+ members on 21 January 2016:

    “Water Shortage South Africa is an incredible example of how we can all help. Over 3 million litres of water delivered in 26 days and not one

    single cent spent – never bought, never sold, never sponsored: always donated by South Africans to South Africans.

    “If there is a company out there willing to donate airtime to our incredible volunteers manning their own phones and using their own money – please inbox me.”

    old FB site: https://www.facebook.com/groups/924585607595490/ Donation site: http://www.water-shortage.co.za/index.php

    It isn’t just the ‘drought’ which is endangering South Africa’s more than 55million people: the country’s top water-expert Professor Anthony Turton of the University of the Free State

    warned in a November 2015 article in @Liberty in November that many of the dams supplying drinking water to local municipalities, is “seriously poisoned with the potent microcystin toxin – chemically similar to cobra venom.

    And the most shocking part of his message is that the water shortage was ‘created, induced’ by an incompetent government:

    “It (the water shortage) stems from “a lack of strategic planning”, a loss of skills to ‘transformation’ (*with many tens of thousands of skilled, experienced whites losing their jobs to unskilled black ANC-members);

    — and the fact that poorly functioning waste-water treatment plants are spewing close on 4billion litres of untreated or partially treated sewage into the country’s dams and rivers every

    day.”

    — Turton: “This raw sewage is creating blue-green algal blooms, and a substance this ancient algae exudes is called microcystin, a potent toxin that causes cancer as well as damage to the liver and nervous system.

    to help as many communities which have run dry with drinking water.

    These sewage spills are the most serious of the many problems in the water sector. “Just as a small volume of oil destroys the quality of a large volume of water, so a small source of persistent sewage has essentially the same effect.”

    Sewage discharges are also driving the eutrophication of most major dams. Eutrophic water is characterised by the presence of high levels of nutrients, which in turn promote the growth of cyanobacteria, commonly known as blue-green algae.

    One very common species of cyanobacteria produces a potent toxin known as microcystin. This is chemically similar to cobra venom. It is also carcinogenic (cancer-producing) and damages the liver and central nervous system.

    Warns Turton: “The microcystin levels found in a number of major dams – including Hartbeespoort, Hazelmere, Midmar and the Vaal Dam – are amongst the highest ever measured in the world.

    “Microcystin toxin levels become a concern in developed countries at far below the levels commonly found in South Africa.

    “Moreover, nothing is being done here to remove the toxin. There are only two known technologies capable of neutralising microcystin, and neither is in mainstream use in any of the country’s bulk potable water treatment plants.

    “Worse still, no one knows whether these technologies can in fact neutralise microcystin at the concentrations found in South Africa. In this regard, we are truly flying blind.”

    The ANC-regime deliberately underreports the extent of this dangerous poisoning, referred to as ‘Eutrophication”…

    “Instead of dealing with these difficult issues, the Government is under-reporting the extent of eutrophication. Official reports suggest that only 5% of the national water resource is at risk, but a recent study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has found that at least two thirds of South Africa’s largest dams are already eutrophic.

    “The more eutrophication proceeds, the more the 38 billion cubic metres of water in our dams are likely to become unusable.

    “This looming disaster could have been avoided if a rigid concept of “transformation” had not been allowed to trump the imperative to safeguard public health,” says Turton.

    http://www.biznews.com/sa-investing/2015/11/10/antony-turton-water-crisis-avoidable-skills-shortages-poor-waste-management/

    It is the sheer lack of water that grabbed most of the headlines.

    South Africa’s breadbasket is the Free State – and usually in midsummer you’d see maize and sunflowers stretching to the horizon.

    by November 2015, it was a dustbowl. as a shocking drone video taken from Verkeerdevlei toll plaza showed.

    http://www.sapeople.com/2015/12/30/south-africas-drought-angels-step-up/

    http://www.water-shortage.co.za/index.php

    https://www.facebook.com/groups/924585607595490/

    http://praag.co.za/?p=36149

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