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Social welfare services a necessity
Bulawayo Progressive Residents Association (BPRA)
February 14, 2012

Residents are calling on the relevant ministries to ensure the welfare and protection of vulnerable members of the community. The disabled, aged, victims of social disasters or disorganisation deserve to be supported by social welfare programmes funded by the government. These may take the form of direct supportive or facilitating help (social service) or may take the form of actual benefits like money, food, medical care, institutional care or it may take the form of efforts to interpret their needs or assist others in securing a better adaptation of the total social structure, including its economic and legal arrangements, to meeting those needs. This call comes after people that were displaced from Cowdray Park and other areas have not yet been relocated after more than five years since the destructive Operation Murambatsvina. Most of them had their back yard businesses struck down while others were left homeless. The government should take full responsibility of these people, most of whom do not have national identity documents, scattered in squatter camps in the city. The city council has also been urged to upgrade its housing scheme and thwart the increase of illegal squatter camps.

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