UPDATE: Volunteers help to douse raging fires at Booysens informal settlement
Local volunteers from the adjacent areas including Charmaine du Toit, Karen Nass, Leon Nass, Chantelle Nass, and Tyrell Meyers, handed out food and clothes on May 29 and June 13.
ABOUT 60 Booysens informal settlement residents were left homeless after a blazing fire destroyed all their belongings on May 27.
Local volunteers from the adjacent areas including Charmaine du Toit, Karen Nass, Leon Nass, Chantelle Nass, and Tyrell Meyers, handed out food and clothes on May 29 and June 13. According to Du Toit, she has been reaching out to the affected families offering assistance in times of emergency.
“Seeing people losing their homes in such a manner is really painful. We try by all means to support the affected families when there is a need to do so. Even on the day of the fire, we helped to try to defuse the fire from spreading around the settlement,” she said.
Facebook comments: This is what our readers said on Facebook:
Lynn Deale Adank: Where is the ward Clr (councillor)for that area, I hope he made an appearance and helped out.
Elton Boesak: They should have never moved there.
Merle Jewill: This is tragic. They have so little as it is and in this cold weather.
Dorothy du Toit Carew: Very sad.
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