Afrikaner singer Sunette Bridges raises funds to help recovery of flooded poor-Afrikaner settlement

Afrikaner singer Sunette Bridges raisomg funds to help the 300 poor-white people at the Afrikaner Kays caravan park settlement in Strand West Cape -- after a fourth flood washed away their belongings once again http://www.censorbugbear.org/farmitracker/reports/view/1871 However -- she not only wants to get them back on their feet, but also wants to consult water-management experts to rebuild the homes so that they won't get flooded again, she said. Her long-term plans are to buy a farm and set up a self-sustaining kibbutz farm for poor Afrikaner families. "We have no intention of maintaining people in squatter camps: we want to get them out of there,' she said. Donate to: BOERVROULIGA First National Bank Current Account: 62379723995 Branch: Woodlands EFT Code: 250655 Swift Code: FIRNZAJJ Ref: KAYS Donations can also be made very easily via Paypal: http://www.boervrouliga.co.za/donations/ ---------- THE NEED IS GREAT: EIGHTY FAMILY COTTAGES WERE BADLY DAMAGED: "The need is great and public has already contributed by donating clothes and food. There's still a large shortage of furniture, refrigerators, ovens and beds,' she told Maroela Media, the publication for Solidarity trade union. About 80 of the wooden cottages housing most residents were damaged and the 300 residents' belongings washed away by the flooding river. Many of these cottages are built at the edge of the 20-year flood line - poor, homeless whites usually find such marginal land-sites to survive on. The residents have struggled to turn the squatter park into a liveable environment again and many meanwhile have to sleep in cars or have been put up with friends and families. The Boer Women's League visitors were greeted by a scene of devastation: dirty mats and belongings, mud and flotsam heaped high. Sunette told them she'd flown from Pretoria to visit them and to see what you're going through. And look at this, it looks so grubby,' she said, visibly moved. Solidarty Helping Hand charity in the West Cape provide the residents with food while they are getting back on their feet again. About 15 youth volunteers from the Helderberg Family Fellowship are at the site each day since the flood to help residents clean up and general odd jobs. The Boer Women's League will try and raise enough funds to replace their ovens and refrigerators. Resident Alet John said : 'things happened so quickly. I was at Kay's Kafee and when I looked out, I saw my flip-flops I'd left at the door, float past me in the street. "We had to grab what we could and flee our homes,' she said. "This is our fourth flood but it's the first time it arrived this fast'. She's lived there for twelve years. Sunette said as a temporary measure they want to rebuild the homes which suffered the largest amount of damage. "However we first want to consult with experts to make certain that a next flood won't inflict the same damage again.' She organized a barbeque for the residents so that she could have in-depth chats with them about their circumstances. She urged them to provide a sustainable contribution to the community and not rely on hand-outs. She encouraged them to pay their rent so that the owner could afford to maintain the squatter-park site. She has more extensive plans. The Boer Women's League is planning to buy a farm to set up a kibbutz system - where people who want to live there will be expected to help raise vegetables, fruit and other farming-initiatives. The proceeds from such farming-products can be used to on the one hand, feed the community, but also generate an income for them. "We have no intention of maintaining people in squatter camps - but to get them out of there', she said. Maroela Media.co.za ----------------- AFRIKAANS: Afrikaner singer Sunette Bridges raises funds to help poor-Afrikaner settlement after West Cape floods destroyed their homes: Sunette Bridges, stigter van die Boervrouliga, http://www.boervrouliga.co.za/ het Donderdag en Vrydag inwoners van die Kays-karavaanpark in die Strand in Kaapstad besoek nadat verlede week se Kaap-vloede grootskaalse skade aangerig het. Bykans 80 houthuise in die karavaanpark is beskadig, en die nagenoeg 300 inwoners se besittings is deur die rivier weggespoel. Baie van dié huise is op die 20 jaar-vloedlyn gebou. Die inwoners spook sedert verlede naweek om weer die park leefbaar te maak en moet allerlei planne maak vir tydelike slaapplek: sommige slaap in motors, terwyl ander by familie of vriende oornag. Die groep hulpwerkers van die Boervrouliga is begroet deur ‘n toneel van vuil matte en besittings, modder en hope opdrifsels. “Ek vlieg spesiaal van Pretoria af om vir julle te kom kuier, en kyk hoe lyk dit – dis so vuil!” het ‘n aangedane Bridges geskerts. Solidariteit Helpende Hand in die Wes-Kaap sorg dat die inwoners genoeg kos het in die tyd wat die inwoners spook om die kamp weer leefbaar te maak, terwyl nagenoeg 15 jeugdige vrywilligers van die Helderberg Family Fellowship elke dag sedert die vloed help met opruimwerk en algemene bedieningswerk in die oord. Die Boerevroueliga gaan hulle beywer om vir die inwoners onder meer oonde en yskaste aan te skaf. “Dit het so vinnig gebeur. Ek was in die oord se kafee toe ek buitentoe kyk en sien hoe my plakkies in die straat voor my verbydryf,” het Alet John, ‘n inwoner, gesê. “Ons moes gryp wat ons kon en ons blyplekke ontruim.” “Hierdie was ons vierde vloed, so ons ken al die ‘drill’, maar die was die eerste een wat ons só onverwags getref het,” het John, wat al 12 jaar daar bly, gesê. Die nood in die oord is groot en die publiek het reeds bygedra deur klere en kos te skenk. Meubels, yskaste, oonde en beddens is steeds ‘n groot tekort. “Ons wil graag die huise wat die ergste beskadig is, op stelte herbou as ‘n tydelike maatreël. Ons wil egter eers die nodige kundiges raadpleeg om seker te maak ‘n volgende vloed veroorsaak nie dieselfde tipe skade nie,” het Bridges gesê. Vir die dag van haar besoek het Bridges vir die inwoners van die oord ʼn braai gereël, waartydens sy ernstig met hulle oor hul omstandighede gepraat het. Sy het hulle gemaan om ‘n daadwerklike bydrae tot die gemeenskap te maak en nie net op aalmoese staat te maak nie. Sy het ook die inwoners aangemoedig om hul huurgeld te betaal sodat die eienaar in staat kan wees om die park in stand te hou. Die Boervrouliga beplan om volgende jaar ʼn plaas te koop en ʼn kibboets-stelsel daar in werking te stel. Persone sal verblyf kry op voorwaarde dat hulle moet help met die verbouing van groente, vrugte en ander boerdery-inisiatiewe. Die opbrengs van sulke produkte sal gebruik word om enersyds die gemeenskap mee te voed, en andersyds ‘n inkomste vir die inwoners te genereer. “Ons plan is nie om mense in plakkerskampe te onderhou nie, maar juis om hulle daar uit te kry,” Bridges gesê. PLEASE DONATE TO http://www.boervrouliga.co.za/