Fire victims receive donations
MPL Gersbach stepped in to help nine residents who were affected by the fire.
Democratic Alliance and Bronberg constituency political head, MPL Graham Gersbach, donated clothes and food parcels to the fire victims at the Kaalfontein Informal Settlement.
The informal settlement is located next to the railway tracks and the donation was made on Tuesday last week.
MPL Gersbach stepped in to help nine residents who were affected by the fire. He donated clothes, food and materials to build new shelters.
“While we have received and re-distributed clothes and food to those affected, they still need building materials so that they can build new shelters or replace parts of their old homes that were damaged in the fire,” he said.
He said it was fortunate that the brick and mortar building in which the nine residents had been staying was separated from the surrounding shacks by a sand road. This limited the devastation to a certain degree.
The donations were made by the Benoni community.
