On Saturday September 14, while on our monthly visit to Solio Deo Gloria in Lydenburg, we were told about another camp and group of people in Lydenburg that require medical and food assistance.
We were shown the way by persons from the Seventh Day Adventist Church to the Paradise Caravan Park, where we encountered about 150 persons in 35 makeshift houses, of which 25 are children of all ages, and a severely disabled young lady suffering from cerebral palsy.
After chatting to a number of residents, we went back to Soli Deo Gloria to fetch Dr Soretha du Plessis to see a number of children requiring medical attention. We were asked by the residents of this makeshift camp for food and medical assistance, and we will include them on our regular visit to Lydenburg and are arranging a medical outreach to the caravan park.
The caravan park camp is a mixture of makeshift houses consisting of 70 per cent white residents and 30 per cent black residents, as far as we could gather during our first visit.
Conditions in this camp are very difficult and we will support its residents as much as we can.
