“We've got 60 children with about 30 staff who are on lockdown. We have had no water sporadically from last Monday night.'
The Ethelbert Children's Home and Youth Centre in Durban has experienced interruptions to its water supply during the past week, making hygiene difficult during the lockdown. Stock image.A children's home in Malvern, Durban, where 60 children and 30 workers are under lockdown, has been forced to use swimming-pool water and buy bottled water after having no water supply for three days in the past week.
“We've got 60 children with about 30 staff who are on lockdown. We have had no water sporadically from last Monday night. The water supply comes and goes,” she said. “The president has called for us to be safe, practise good hygiene and keep our children safe in the light of coronavirus.She said there was a directive from the social development department to keep vulnerable children locked in at the facilities that care for them.Vanessa Theophilus
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