ERA remains committed to the community

The Emmarentia Residents’ Association (ERA) has been hard at work to help the residents and businesses of the community to get through the Covid-19 pandemic as best as they can.

The ERA recently sponsored 500 masks to be given to those in the community who needs them most.

Spokesperson of the association, Claire Hoffmann, expressed, “The ERA donated 100 masks to Eventide Old Age Home. We will also be donating 400 more masks to the NGO [non-governmental organisation], Let’s Work, for them to utilise and distribute to the less fortunate needing masks.”

The triple-layered masks were made by a resident of Emmarentia. Since the beginning of the lockdown, ERA has been sharing information on the virus, where those in need can go to get help, which stores in the area are still operational and government’s relief schemes to help residents, their business and their workers as well as any security hotspots.

One of the issues on the mind of Emmarentia residents is that of domestic workers and gardeners who commute on a daily basis, being back at work, despite regulations stating that this is only allowed on Level 2 of the lockdown.

ERA is reminding the public that the regulations only allow for those domestic staff who live on their employers’ properties to return to work. This includes those responsible for the care of children, elderly and persons with disabilities, physical or mental illness.

Domestic staff who needs to travel every day to their place of work should not be doing so, as they are breaking the law.

The informal reclaimers have also returned to their activities and the ERA shared the following tips to try keep everyone safe:

• Where possible, keep recyclables for a few days before putting them out to be collected. This will help reduce the possibility that they are contaminated

• Please put used tissues in a separate, clear packet in your rubbish so that reclaimers don’t touch them when they are going through your rubbish

• If possible, please put out a bucket of water with soap next to your bins so that reclaimers can access it if necessary

For more information on the ERA and its activities, follow this link: https://era.org.za/subscribe/