Give today to help us build safe and decent homes to the most vulnerable families worldwide. There are also a number of bus stations and taxi ranks, although most taxis still pick up passengers on the main roads. There’s no filth on the roads, that’s a huge improvement.”. The centre also hosts a library and the only community cinema of its kind, the Bertha Movie House which runs regular screening programmes - all free for the township communities. Though Khayelitsha was originally an apartheid dumping ground, as part of the “Group Areas Act” it is now one of the largest and fastest growing slums in South Africa. Mbango shares a one-room shack with her grandmother and two younger siblings in Endlovisi, a vast sprawl of more than 6,600 corrugated iron shacks perched precariously over the sand dunes on the southeastern edge of the South African city. The researchers developed a mathematical model linking the risk of sexual assault to the number of toilets and the amount of time a woman must spend walking there. A successful initiative at Ikhwezi Lesizwe Primary School has brought company support for technology. AMANDLA EduFootball, a South Africa-based non-profit organisation, established its inaugural Safe-Hub, the Chris Campbell Memorial Field, in partnership with the CTC Ten Foundation, Since 2003 the Niall Mellon Township Trust has managed £160m of fundraising, Mpumelelo Magatya Senior Secondary School, This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 00:25. But then we lost hope. On one sandy path, a small shop sells sweets to children as well as staples such as milk, bread and potatoes. Inside a neat shack on the main road of Endlovisi, Phumzile Mbhovane, a 30-year-old father of four, sat in the semi darkness with his wife, Nobubele. Services offered at these include child health, family planning, TB treatment, HIV testing, Pap smears and treatment and diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections. Khayelitsha is one of the top five largest slums in the world. The facility came as a relief to the ever growing populous Khayelitsha township. We slum dwellers should be considered before being evicted.”. Now 12, Mbango tells the story with an intense, unflinching gaze but her hands, fidgeting nervously as she speaks, show the trauma is still raw. Meaning ‘new home’, Khayelitsha was established in the mid 1980s during the apartheid era as a vast dormitory for the thousands of workers who moved to Cape Town in search of jobs. “There was no evidence of ownership like a land title. Located in the Cape Flats area of the Western Cape, Khayelitsha is the second-largest black township in South Africa (after Soweto). For 90% of them, this is their meal, what they eat from here. Join one of our volunteer trips abroad to help with renovations and rebuilding projects. [4], Cape Town initially opposed implementing the Group Areas Act passed in 1950, and residential areas in the city remained unsegregated until the first Group Areas were declared in the city in 1957. It’s also the best place for criminals to attack. Khayelitsha has a population of 391,749 (as of 2011[update]). That’s more than 25,000 people per square mile, living in one of South Africa’s newest townships. They looked and looked for her for a long, long time. Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Vacancies | What We Do | Who We Are. These clinics play an important role as centres of primary healthcare by providing a variety of healthcare services to children, women and, youth and men's health. [15]:7 Some 89% of households in Khayelitsha are either moderately or severely food insecure. Tangles of electrical wires swing in the coastal squalls, communal water taps are a hive of washing activity and some shacks even boast satellite TV dishes. The name is Xhosa for New Home[2]. [5] When Cape Town finally started implementing the Group Areas Act, it did so more severely than any other major city; by the mid-1980s, it had become one of the most segregated cities in South Africa. In the slum of Dharavi, Mumbai, children from rural areas as young as 10 receive training for their new work, collecting and recycling waste. Khayelitsha has been split into about 22 areas, depending on how one divides them. As part of the 2010 FIFA World Cup preparations, a Football for Hope centre was constructed in Khayelitsha. After the historic 1994 elections, hundreds of thousands moved to urban areas in search of work, education or both. The researchers found that doubling the number of toilets would lower costs to $35 million and reduce sexual assaults by 30 per cent. in 2013, on New Year's Day, the township experienced a fire that resulted in the deaths of three people, with 4000 residents being left homeless as their shacks were burned to the ground. In the communities of Enkanini and Endlovini, over 85% of the residents were born in the Eastern Cape. Most people use open fields or bushes to do their business, which contributes to the spread of diseases like cholera within communities. “Habitat for Humanity” is a registered service mark owned by Habitat for Humanity International. Lookout Hill is also one of the 7 Wonders of the world picture frame of Cape Town, part of the World Design Capital projects. Other residents have installed the occasional pane of glass salvaged from demolition sites or doors secured with big, shiny padlocks. The partnership has since been extended to include the Western Cape Government, National Treasury, international agencies, NGOs, CBOs and other communities. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. In April 2013, VPUU NPC was established to implement VPUU in the Western Cape.VPUU (Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading) is responsible for the building of community centres and gardens, and the sponsorship of soccer clubs. The community’s refusal to be evicted gave the place its name: in the Xhosa language it means both elephant and fierce strength and is officially known as Monwabisi Park. By Paola Totaro, Thomson Reuters Foundation. By then, many blacks had already illegally settled in townships like Nyanga and Crossroads. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about Khayelitsha. The World’s Largest Slums: Dharavi, Kibera, Khayelitsha & Neza, How to tackle the growth of the world’s biggest slums. However, the family live in an area where there are no easily accessible toilets at all - and according to the community, residents have literally been dying for a pee.

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