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          orphans, was also their bread-winner.   management  office of the Nyandeni   family now has  a place to  call home
          While their only  relative, who was also   Local Municipality for a shelter of  the   again. Service delivery intervention
          their guardian,  lived in the  village of   Dwakaza orphans. The CDW also wrote   is  best  achieved by  an integrated
          Mareweni, it was not in the same dwelling   about the plight of the Dwakaza orphans   partnership  of  government  (i.e.
          as the orphans. Ms Rhani assessed the   in the Mthatha Fever local  newspaper,   DHA, Sassa and the Nyandeni  Local
          state  of  the  damage  caused by  heavy   which is  a  source of  community  news   Municipality),  local businesses (Libode
          rain to  the Dwakaza orphans. The  first   to the Nyandeni community. She urged   Hardware owner) and civic society as a
          intervention was to refer orphans to the   the community to provide donations to   whole (local congregation of the Emthini
          Department of Home Affairs, where the   the orphans and help them to secure a   Church). It takes a community to build a
          necessary assessments were carried   place of safety.                just, safe and caring society.  n
          out for a birth certificate registration
          process, which was successful.    The disaster management office of the
                                            municipality  delivered a temporary
          With their birth certificates in hand, the   shelter  to the orphans. As a result
          CDW referred the orphans to the South   of the newspaper article, the local
          African Social Security Agency (Sassa)   congregation of  the Emthini Church
          regional office in Mthatha to assess the   visited the Dwakaza orphans and offered
          type  of social security protection for   them blankets, groceries  and clothes.
          which  they may qualify. Sassa offered   Weeks later, a local  businessman, the
          all the orphans child care grants  and   owner of Libode Hardware in Libode
          social relief of distress (SRD) in the form   town, visited the orphans and donated
          of food parcels. This was a relief to the   R2 000  groceries and toiletries.  The
          orphans as their quality of life improved.  hardware owner committed to building
          Zamaka Rhani, as a CDW, could not let   the orphans a three-bedroomed house
          the intervention end there, and elevated   with  a water tank outside, which  was
          the Dwakaza’s case to the disaster   completed within a month. The Dwakaza


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                Bhekithemba Dwakaza, his younger sibling and CDW,   Two of the Dwakaza Orphans cleaning their temporary house (offered
                      Ms Zameka Rhani in Mareweni village      by the Nyandeni Local Municipality disaster management office)





















          Bhekithemba Dwakaza with one of his siblings in the front of the temporary shelter offered to them by the Nyandeni Local Municipality disaster
                                                      management office
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