Assagay Neighbourhood Watch unites to help its community
The members of the neighbourhood watch ensured the safety of its community after the flood devastation.
THE Assagay Neighbourhood Watch got their hands dirty and pulled together to help its community,
The Upper Highway community is one of the many communities in KwaZulu-Natal that was impacted by the recent heavy rains and floods.
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The active neighbourhood watch made it its mission to ensure the safety of its community, including rebuilding bridges, facilitating municipal services, and keeping the community informed of danger points.
“Although we are a neighbourhood watch and focus mainly on security, we are committed to serving our community and when our community needs us, we are there to assist and help where we can. The recent flooding was no exception,” said the neighbourhood watch chairman, Bruce Laatz.
The neighbourhood watch, including all its committee members, responders, patrollers, and their families, strategically coordinated efforts through its communication channels to assist the community during and after the flood devastation.
The neighbourhood watch committee members facilitated the restoration of basic services such as electricity and water, manned and blockaded roads that were unsafe for vehicles to cross and delivered food and essentials to parts of the community that were completely cut off.
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“Even though the rain might have eased for now, there is a lot of clean up efforts as well as facilitating full-service delivery back to our community. We will continue to not only protect our community from a safety point of view, but we will continue our efforts to restore our community back to its full glory,” said Laatz.
While residents of Shongweni continue to pick up the pieces, 48 people from around Kwa-Zulu Natal are still missing or are unaccounted for. Some 4000 houses have been completely destroyed. What’s more some 600 schools were damaged.
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