City helps street people in winter cold

The City of Cape Town’s Social Development Directorate will be providing R450 000 grant to shelters is encouraging. As 7 shelters were given the grants and one in peninsula, Happy valley in Simonstown one presumes  R65,000 will go this winter to the peninsula Happy Valley shelter providing around 16 more beds  hopefully. with Several hundred homeless on street in peninsula, and over 60s not accomodated for in shelters, and with so many of them on the street its of course a very partial solution but nevertheless welcomed. Lets hope the 1000s and 1000s Peninsula public with business muscle power, food to share on the street,  jobs to create, will take some initiative too.

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