Report and picture by Sisanda Jack
22 April 2024
NCERHA: Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu led a community outreach programme at Buffalo City in the Easter Cape Province on Friday 19th April 2024.
The Minister commenced her visit in Duncan Village with the handing over of a community mobile office to the Ihlumelo Foundation, a youth organization based in Duncan Village. The organization also received a cheque of R93 600 to help it in the smooth running of their community work. The organization provides a safe, enabling and stimulating environment for learners after school whilst their parents are still at work. Later in the day the Minister also visited the community of Ncerha outside the East London CBD where she handed over a resource center, bore hole, water storage tanks and solar powered water pumps to the community. The equipment was donated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The center has a community library donated by Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) and laptops sponsored by the MTN Foundation. These will all be accessible to surrounding villages. During the public engagement programme, Minister Zulu also handed over a cheque from the National Development Agency (NDA), an entity of the Department of Social Development to Isithembiso Multi-Purpose Organisation which is a local NPO to support its women-led agricultural and sustainable livelihood projects.
The Minister was accompanied by the Social Development MEC Ms Bukiwe Fanta, MEC for Public Works and Infrastructure Ms Ntombovuyo Nkopane and the Executive Mayor Councilor Princess Faku. The mayor also donated a Boxing ring to a local boxing club.
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