House for destitute family
All unemployed 12 members of the Masondo family were left with a dilapidated mud-built homestead
KZN Health MEC Dr Sibongiseni Dhlomo has called on leaders in the public and private sectors to intensify efforts to identify impoverished people and find ways to help them, as part of government’s benevolent Operation Sukuma Sakhe programme.
Dr Dhlomo said this as he officially handed over a spacious two-bedroom house to the Masondo family at eMaKhabeleni, a deeply remote part of Nkandla on Monday.
Since the death of the family’s matriarch, who was a pensioner, all unemployed 12 members of the Masondo family were left with a dilapidated mud-built homestead and no stable income.
MEC Dhlomo heard about the family’s plight during a visit to create awareness about the dangers of child malnutrition in the area in December 2015.
This followed reports that the rate of this scourge was high in the area.
MEC Dhlomo was so moved by the poverty at the Masondo household that he sought help on behalf of the family.
Zamani Shongwe, of Inhlanzeko Project Management Services pledged to build the family a house.
Members of the Masondo family expressed their heartfelt gratitude and were so overcome by the gesture that some of them openly cried tears of joy.
Nobuhle Masondo said, ‘Words cannot begin to describe how grateful we are to the MEC and to Inhlanzeko.
‘We are a very poor family and we never imagined that we could have a wonderful house like this.
‘May God bless you both, as well as anyone else who contributed to the building of this house. May you extend this kind of generosity to others.’
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