Image: Reuters/Rogan WardElderly Durban flood victims who are staying with neighbours or had been taken in by good samaritans, say just putting food on the table is a struggle., but have to contend with cramped living conditions. The SABC and humanitarian organisation Gift of the Givers have joined a flood relief effort by a school in the south of Durban, and handed over 3-hundred food parcels and blankets to flood affected families.
“The house was destroyed fortunately nobody was injured. We are seven at home and we all need help. I am happy about the intervention of the SABC together with Gift of the Givers. I will be able to cook for my family”, says Mbuthu.“My house was flooded and I am looking a child that is my own, I am a chronic patient. I never expect this to happen to me. I have three children and I am unemployed but I get disability grant.”she says.
Windy Height Primary School principal – Thembekile Makhanya – says the intervention will be a psychological boost for learners.
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