A helping hand for blind granny

AN ELDERLY blind woman’s life changed for the better after she received food parcels as well as a toilet from the Raluswielo branch of the ANC Women’s League, as part of their Mandela Day observance.

Mutshekwa Mavhunga (85) was identified as someone needing assistance by the Women’s League during a door-to-door election campaign shortly before the general elections in May.

Even though Mavhunga is old and blind, there are four other family members who depend on her to survive.

“As the Women’s League we have a role to play by identifying the needs of the underprivileged in the community, and then assisting them. This poor family is struggling financially, as well as not having a proper ablution facility,” Nkhumeleni Lalumbe, a member of the ANC Women’s League provincial executive committee, said.

Mavhunga said she was grateful to the women’s league for helping poor, needy families.

“They didn’t just come when they needed our votes, even when the election is over they also came and supported us,” she said.