By Jessica Roberts
Children from shelters in Khayelitsha and Woodstock were treated to a day of rides, performances, and the biggest cake in South Africa at the launch of the I CAN donation drive.
I CAN is a campaign to collect blankets and clothes for shelters for the homeless in Cape Town.
The drive is being run by the Homestead, with Cape Community Newspapers and Pres Les, which is is celebrating its 35th anniversary.
"We are appealing for donations of blankets for the street children," Pres Les chief executive Allan Kumalo said.
Pres Les would provide bedding worth R100 000 to be distributed to charities that cared for street children, he said.
"The motive is to keep our street children warm this winter," event spokesperson Fehraad de Nicker said.
After the rides and lunch at Ratanga Junction and performances by magicians from the School of Magic, clowns and face-painters, the 80 boys and 17 girls got stuck into the bed-shaped cake.
The chocolate cake was made in the shape of a bed and was 2m long and 1,8m wide and took four people four days to bake, using 1 020 eggs, 60kg each of flour, sugar and butter, and 30kg of icing sugar.
- Gifts of blankets and clothing may be left at Pres Les's head office at 3 Castor Road, Lansdowne, or at The Homestead.