More than 200 people have been displaced in a fire that ripped through Imizamo Yethu, destroying around 60 homes. | nickymccain
People have started rebuilding their homes in Imizamo Yethu Informal Settlement, Hout Bay in Cape Town.At least 60 homes have been destroyed in a fire in a Cape Town informal settlement, leaving around 200 people displaced.Gift of the Givers is providing humanitarian aid to those affected.
"Our teams are currently on site distributing hot meals, toiletry packs, baby packs, mattresses and blankets. We will be here for the next few days," he said."Some of them have been fire victims for the last five to six years. Gift of the Givers alone, in the last five years, has responded to seven disasters in the same section. [We need] a permanent solution for these people.
Nomatamsanqa Khwatshube, 31, said that she had care for her two children - aged 13 and two - as well as her disabled sister, without a home or belongings.I was in Noordhoek and received a call from my sister that there was a fire, and it was very close to my place. They tried to take out some of the stuff.
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