ETHEKWINI Municipality, in conjunction with the Department of Social Development, is working to ensure that people living in homeless shelters across the city are reunited with their family’s post-lockdown.
Thirty homeless people have already been reunited with their families.
The department has also deployed about 51 social workers to conduct psychosocial interventions in all the shelters across the city.
Safer Cities senior manager, Nomusa Shembe, said the reunification project allowed social workers to engage with homeless people, who are people keen on returning home post-lockdown.
“During the inter-provincial travel window that was opened for seven days, a lot of people who were not from the province, were reunited with their families. They indicated that they want their loved ones back and transferred money to them,” she said.
“Other people who were reunited during the same period were those coming from other parts of KZN such as Newcastle, Eshowe and Richards Bay. Although a high number of the people, who are in shelters are from eThekwini, those who have been reunited with their families were people who had been reported missing by their loved ones,” she said.
“Through the project, we will be able to assist even more people by reuniting them with their families once lockdown levels and restrictions ease,” Shembe added.
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