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Limpopo hands over house to child
headed household
By Thapelo Sibanda
NHBRC Limpopo in partnership with the Modimolle Municipality,
Mamondo Developers & Construction, Department of Social
Development and South African Women in Construction (SAWIC)
recently handed over a house to a child headed family of five (5) in
Phagameng Township.
The family was living in a two room shack situated on the stand
where the house has been built and they are surviving on a child
support grant.
NHBRC Provincial Manger Mpho Ramalla hands
over the home
This is the fifth home that the NHBRC in Limpopo has given to a
destitute family since 2014.
Provincial Manager Tshepo Ramalla also handed over an enrolment
certificate to the family.
NHBRC Cooks on World Food day
World Food Day was a day of action dedicated to tackling global hunger, and
highlight the plight of 870 million undernourished people in the world. Food and
Agriculture Organisation of the UN (FAO) designated the 16 th of October as World
Food Day in 1979. The day is celebrated annually by people around the world
who come together to declare their commitment to eradicate worldwide
hunger.
The NHBRC in partnership with NGO Meals On Wheels commemorated World Food
Day by participating in a cook out challenge on Wednesday 16 October at NASREC
EXPO Centre, Johannesburg where there was a drive to serve 10 000 meals to
beneficiaries in the East and South Rand.
NHBRC Employee Volunteers on World Food
Day
National Homebuilders
Registration Council
27 Leeuwkop Road Sunninghill
2191
[www.nhbrc.org.za]
[thenhbrc@nhbrc.org.za]
[0800200824]
The NHBRC had employees who volunteered from Gauteng and Sunninghill offices
who were in teams to prepare nutritious meals that were packaged and delivered
to beneficiaries in collaboration with other corporate institutions, communitybased
organisations, government and media institutions.