In the two months since the start of the lockdown, non-profit organisation, which has long distributed food parcels to Roodepoort’s most vulnerable communities, has become even more of a lifeline.
“I don’t know if this is illegal,” says Cora Bailey quietly as she opens a gate leading to a small garden tucked inside Community-Led Animal Welfare in Durban Deep.
“I find it so humiliating for people to have to queue for food with their children It robs them of their dignity and weakens their immune systems.” Clutching her packet of maize meal, Patience Moyo tells how if it wasn’t for Claw’s help, she and her family would have starved by now. Fellow Zimbabwean Thembinkosi Khanyi lost her monthly income of R500 a month in the artisanal mining industry when the lockdown started. “As foreigners, we are forgotten. You can’t get the Ramaphosa food parcels if you don’t have a South African ID, which we don’t have. And we can’t go back home because the borders are closed.”
“We don’t know day-to-day what we’re going to have for the next day and you don’t want to see anyone going hungry. Somehow, every day there is at least something. Dog poisoning cases have surged, too, and more and more people, evicted and out of a job, can no longer take care of the animals they love.“It’s heartbreaking I get people saying ‘here’s my ID can you organise the government food parcel for me?’ I’ve given my details to so many people and wonder whether those food parcels have actually arrived.”
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