Gift of the givers
Grabouw fire leaves about 200 homeless
On Saturday 66 shacks, houses, a car and a bus were alight causing severe damage in the area.
The non-governmental organisation, the Nelson Mandela Bay Business Chamber and the local municipality are on a drive to provide additional millions of litres of water to residents daily.
The Gift of the Givers said the Nelson Mandela Bay area is two days away from reaching day zero and the taps will run dry.
The NGO is currently drilling boreholes in Gqebera following the recent visit by the Minister of Water and Sanitation Senzo Mchunu, who provided more details about government intervention to address the water crisis.
Residents have been warned to brace themselves for heavy rains for the next three days.
Eight trucks are now on their way to the province with thousands of five-litre bottles of water.
In the aftermath of the catastrophic floods that hit KwaZulu-Natal earlier this month, scores of people - many of them children - have been left unaccounted for, leaving families across the province in agonising limbo.
The City of Cape Town's JP Smith said that several fire hoses had been cut while crews were responding to Saturday's blaze in Langa.
About 300 homes were destroyed, leaving more than 1,000 people displaced.
Relief workers in flood-hit KwaZulu-Natal are raising the alarm over water shortages.
Since 2015, the Gift of the Givers, has initiated several water interventions in communities that have been in dire need of assistance.
The NGO’s spokesperson, Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, said that arrangements had been made to buy items in Europe and Ukraine, while supplies from South Africa would be sent on scheduled flights.
This after the humanitarian outreach group, Gift of the Givers, hosted a medical services initiative in the town of Touws River this weekend.
The Gift of the Givers is hoping to meet urgently with the Western Cape's health officials around the lack of access to medical services in rural areas.
The health workers are being sent to the area by humanitarian relief group, Gift of the Givers, after it was discovered that residents had for many months been struggling without adequate and reliable medical services.
Cape Town Fire and Rescue Services are working to determine the cause of a blaze that left several hundred people homeless in Cape Town.
The NGO has donated R5 million to kickstart a Groote Schuur Hospital project aiming to reduce the massive backlog in patients waiting for essential surgery at the facility.
The hospital, like many others, has had to delay most medical procedures to care for coronavirus patients.
The NGO has challenged South Africans and businesses to match its R5 million donation to the Surgical Recovery Project - in order to ensure these operations can happen and patients' well being can be restored.