Trade union Solidarity announced on Wednesday that it would be donating R250,000 to the Solidarity Movement’s Crisis Fund to ensure that people who have been hit by the catastrophic floods in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) get help.
It appealed to the community at large to see if the amount of R250,000 could be doubled through outside contributions. “The devastation in KwaZulu-Natal that we are seeing live is terrible not only because thousands are suffering but also because the institutions that should assist them are not there to do so. It is in the knowledge that the government’s inability will spill over to disaster management that Solidarity donated R250,000 to the Solidarity Movement’s Crisis Fund to ensure that help reaches those who need it most,” Dr Dirk Hermann, Solidarity Chief Executive, indicated. He went on to note: “Over the past year, this province has been hit hard by Covid-19, the June riots and now the past week’s devastating floods. The reality people are facing is that thousands of people have been left homeless, hundreds have died and damage of millions of rands have been wrought as a direct result of the heavy rainfall.” Solidarity Helping Hand has already sent a crisis management team to KZN to assess the extent of the disaster and to determine an appropriate response. Moreover, Helping Hand has added an additional contribution of R100,000 to Solidarity's donation for assistance in KZN.
- Read Solidarity’s press statement, which contains details of how contributions can be made, at Solidarity News
- Lees ook, Nóg skenkings vir KZN-vloede, by Maroela Media
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