Fifty youths helped build over 30 homes for destitute beneficiaries over the past month in a project aimed at skills development in Chatty, Port Elizabeth. Volunteers, aged 18 to 35, were involved in the Youth Build project that forms part of the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) skills development training programme.
As part of the Zanemvula project, the servicing of 4 040 sites in the western area of Joe Slovo township in Nelson Mandela Bay has commenced and will result in 3 977 new homes being built.
We are sharing LaPsis (an easy-to-use online spatial information system) with provinces and municipalities as part of our initiatives to support and capacitate them. In their own words, the main reasons they prefer to use LaPsis are:
In April and May this year, HDA informal settlement upgrading support work, under the watchful eye of Maki Thellane, HDA manager: programmes and technical support services, has been focused on the roll-out of nine pilot projects in three provinces: North West, the Northern Cape and the Free State.
The HDA, together with the Department of Human Settlements, facilitated a two-day introductory informal settlement upgrading capacity-building workshop in Limpopo on 25 and 26 June. The provincial department head of CoGSTA, Ms Nnana Manamela, opened the second day of the workshop with an introduction to poverty issues.
