{"id":103050,"date":"2024-12-12T15:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/?p=103050"},"modified":"2024-12-12T15:59:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:59:53","slug":"mec-siphokazi-lusithi-kickstarts-16-days-campaign-with-handoverof-22-houses-to-destitute-families-in-kwelerha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/2024\/12\/12\/mec-siphokazi-lusithi-kickstarts-16-days-campaign-with-handoverof-22-houses-to-destitute-families-in-kwelerha\/15\/59\/","title":{"rendered":"MEC SIPHOKAZI LUSITHI KICKSTARTS 16 DAYS CAMPAIGN WITH HANDOVEROF 22 HOUSES TO DESTITUTE FAMILIES IN KWELERHA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"285\" height=\"92\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ECDHS.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102495\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eastern Cape MEC for Public Works, Infrastructure and Human Settlements,<br>Siphokazi Lusithi, will on Tuesday, 26 November 2024, officially handover 22 houses<br>to families who are destitute and vulnerable in Kwelerha under the Buffalo City<br>Metropolitan Municipality. This forms part of the Department\u2019s 16 Days of Activism of<br>no Violence Against Women and Children Campaign, aimed at protecting the most<br>vulnerable in society, including women, the disabled and elderly, by providing them<br>with decent shelter.<br>The 22 families benefitted from the Kwelerha 54 Project, a housing project that is<br>providing 45 houses to the identified destitute families in Kwelerha. One of the families<br>is that of 31-year-old Thandiwe Mtikitiki, who is staying in a dilapidated temporary<br>shelter with her two siblings. They lost both their parents and are dependent on social<br>grant. The other beneficiary who is set to receive his house keys is the elderly<br>Notolopitsi Bacwana (76), who is also living under poor conditions in a shack with her<br>son and two grandchildren.<br>This project falls within the 1250 houses that will be completed for destitute families<br>by December in the entire BCMM.<br>The Department has a number of activities lined up for the 16 Days of Activism of No<br>Violence Against Women and Children Campaign, which takes place from 25<br>November\u201310 December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern Cape MEC for Public Works, Infrastructure and Human Settlements,Siphokazi Lusithi, will on Tuesday, 26 November 2024, officially handover 22 housesto families who are destitute and vulnerable in Kwelerha under the Buffalo CityMetropolitan Municipality. This forms part of the Department\u2019s 16 Days of Activism ofno Violence Against Women and Children Campaign, aimed at protecting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"1080","footnotes":""},"categories":[214,192,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103051,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103050\/revisions\/103051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecdhs.gov.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}