RESIDENTS of the City of Johannesburg’s (CoJ) Region F were brought up to speed with job and empowerment opportunities, health programmes and services available on an open day at Rotunda Park on Friday, 4 March.
Shaun O’Shea, Region F’s assistant director of citizen relationship and urban management, said the open day created an ideal platform for residents to interact with the various departments and municipal-owned entities about service-related issues and opportunities. “We regularly host open days, which have been found to create valuable information-sharing opportunities. We also interacted with informal food traders and taxi operators about by-laws specifically pertaining to them.” said O’Shea.
Billing and service-related issues were some of the most asked about topics during the open day. Information regarding opportunities created by programmes such as Vulindlel’ eJozi, Digital Ambassadors and Jozi@Work was also shared.
Youngsters from West Turffontein were happy to have been present on the day and expressed their intentions to make use of programmes such as the Vulindlel’ eJozi and Digital Ambassadors programmes as they want to use these opportunities as a platform to get experience so that one day they can start a small business.
The CoJ’s healthcare workers were on hand to provide information on a range of health matters, including the importance of knowing one’s HIV status, nutrition, child development, immunisation, addiction intervention and recovery assistance. Residents were also able to be tested for diseases and conditions such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and cancer.
A resident of The Hill, Beatrice Gouws, said she found the open day to be highly informative. “I had an issue with my property rates. I had for a long time been trying to get the issue resolved,” said Gouws.
The CoJ’s entities, including the Johannesburg Roads Agency, City Power, Department of Health and Social Development, the Department of Environmental Health, Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo, Johannesburg Market, Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department and Emergency Management Services interacted with the people face to face.
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