WOEFUL days of an 18-member Kuruman, Northern Cape, family cramped up in a tiny shack, ended today when they moved into a big house
Wheelchair-bound pensioner Nora Keeremang Leeuw - who is aged 62 and had been living in a one-room dwelling that housed 18 people - is now at her happiest.
This is all thanks to the nation-building partnership of the Sishen Iron Ore Community Development Trust, its SABC corporate social investment counterpart, Helping Hands, and the local Association for Community and Rural Advancement Trust.
The trust, which bankrolled the project - acted in response to the SABC's Touching Lives programme last October, which highlighted the plight of the Leeuw family in Digweng village in GaSegonyana municipality.
According to the project's publicists, the school-going children took turns in taking a year off school to take care of their grandmother.
Association for Community and Rural Advancement Gender Officer Masego Modise said this week: "While out during our field work, we came across the Leeuw family."
Sishen Iron Ore Community Development Trust chairperson Connie Molusi said:
"The plight of the Leeuw family was indeed a touching experience, reflecting the reality of the extreme poverty that some families are subjected to.
"The conditions were indeed shocking and thereby prompted us to make a small contribution to ensure that we made light the burden of the family."
Touching experience for Leeuw family
WOEFUL days of an 18-member Kuruman, Northern Cape, family cramped up in a tiny shack, ended today when they moved into a big house
Wheelchair-bound pensioner Nora Keeremang Leeuw - who is aged 62 and had been living in a one-room dwelling that housed 18 people - is now at her happiest.
This is all thanks to the nation-building partnership of the Sishen Iron Ore Community Development Trust, its SABC corporate social investment counterpart, Helping Hands, and the local Association for Community and Rural Advancement Trust.
The trust, which bankrolled the project - acted in response to the SABC's Touching Lives programme last October, which highlighted the plight of the Leeuw family in Digweng village in GaSegonyana municipality.
According to the project's publicists, the school-going children took turns in taking a year off school to take care of their grandmother.
Association for Community and Rural Advancement Gender Officer Masego Modise said this week: "While out during our field work, we came across the Leeuw family."
Sishen Iron Ore Community Development Trust chairperson Connie Molusi said:
"The plight of the Leeuw family was indeed a touching experience, reflecting the reality of the extreme poverty that some families are subjected to.
"The conditions were indeed shocking and thereby prompted us to make a small contribution to ensure that we made light the burden of the family."
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