Disaster Relief

YOU DID IT!

We reached 40 communities, fed 27 910 people daily, 30 feeding schemes, 15 046 food parcels distributed, 1612 youth empowered, 300

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BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVE!

The Mustadafin Foundation is again hoping to put smiles on the faces of vulnerable children and orphans this festive season.

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Residents urged to help prevent house fires

By NABEELAH MOHEDEEN As the long drought and hot, dry summer continue, the Mustadafin Foundation is urging residents to be cautious when using candles and gas-operated items to prevent fires and the subsequent loss of homes. On Thursday January 12, the foundation donated food hampers and crockery to the families who

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‘We have lost everything’

By HAZEL ALLIES-HUSSELMAN Residents from Pooke se Bos informal settlement in Rylands started the long road to rebuild their lives and homes, after a fire swept through the area in the early morning hours of Tuesday August 29. The fire left one person dead, destroyed 52 shacks and displaced more than

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We have lost everything

Residents from Pooke se Bos informal settlement in Ryands started the long road to reduild their lives and homes, after a fire swept through the area in the early morning hours of Tuesday August 29. The fire left one person dead, destroyed 52 shacks and displaced more than 100 people.

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Cause of Fire Still Unknown

Residents of Pooke se Bos in Rylands are piecing back the remants of their lives after a fire ripped through the settlement in  the early hours of Tuesday morning and affected 127 residents. According to the City Of Cape Town’s Fire and Rescue Services spokesperson Theo Layne, a man burnt

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Mustadafin keeps Tafelsig residents warm

The Mustadafin Foundation handed out blankets and distributed soup to Tafelsig residents at their offices on Thursday August 3. More than 500 people queued outside the gate to receive their items. The foundation’s director, Ghairunisa Johnstone-Cassiem, said they had recently received a generous donation from the Azhar Timol Charity Foundation

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Woman arrested for Bonteheuwel fire

By NABEELAH MOHEDEEN Fires ripped through two backyard dwellings in two separate incidents in Bonteheuwel last week, displacing eight people. A 19-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly causing the first fire, which took place on Monday July 10 at a backyard dwelling in Prunus Street, just after 2am, resulting in

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300 Families Benefit Through Winter Operation

The organization started with its first winter distribution in  St Helena Bay 20th May 2017 The community were issued with a ton of clothing, 300 blankets, and 400 litre pots of warm cooked food. The curent employment situation in  the town is on standstill as the community is dependent on the

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Three die in separate fires (01 December 2015)

“In the early hours of this morning (Sunday), at around 1am, the city’s Fire and Rescue Services responded to a fire in Masiphumelele, where an extensive area of reeds and informal structures caught alight,” she said. About 800 informal structures were destroyed as well as one double- and two single-storey

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Blaze kills 2, leaves 4 000 homeless

Blaze kills 2, leaves 4 000 homeless (01 December 2015) A FIRE wreaked havoc, leaving a trail of destruction through Masiphumelele, near Kommetjie, in the early hours yesterday, killing two people, destroying about 800 structures and leaving more than 4 000 people homeless. Firefighters, who struggled for five hours to

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HELP IS NEEDED!!!

This weekend a family lost their home due to a fire in khayelitsha. A mother and her three still school children were left stranded. Filippina Fatima Busakwe, an unemployed widow whose only income is a grant and suffers from what is called “Elephant’s leg”. She is unable to work or

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