Struggling KZN communities prioritised to receive COVID-19 relief packs
KwaZulu-Natal government's efforts to assist local communities during the COVID-19 outbreak have received a much-needed boost from the local business sector.
On Thursday, Premier Sihle Zikalala announced that through a partnership between government, the Growth Coalition - a structure representing local business - more than 10 00 sanitizers, 3 000 masks and 17 300 food parcels have been donated and will be distributed over three months in various KZN communities.
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Addressing media at a briefing held at one of the identified communities of uMlazi, Zikalala said they will prioritise struggling communities first.
"We said we know that people as a whole will want to get sanitised, but the main target are people who have less access to water and those will be people who are in the transit camps and people are who in informal settlements. So the contribution of these sanitises and food packs will be going to those people."
