Gift of the Givers Responds to Eastern Cape Floods

Buffalo City Mayor and Disaster Management, Nelson Mandela Bay Fire Station and Disaster Management, and Kariega Disaster Management have been in communication with Gift of the Givers from last night and in the early hours of this morning to assist with the extensive flooding in these areas. Infrastructure damage, loss of life, missing and injured people, a fire station submerged, vehicles washed away, multiple areas affected in these regions and the Baakens River in danger of bursting its banks with major risk to low lying houses are the immediate challenges. 

Gift of the Givers has the full support of Eastern Cape SAPS PC, General Lillian Mene, and General Vuyisile Ncata, Head of SAPS command in Gqeberha. Denise van Huyssteen, CEO of NMB Business Chamber has offered all possible assistance and so have corporate companies.

Gift of the Givers teams in East London and Gqeberha will be supported by team members from Cape Town, George and Adelaide with emergency supplies already being loaded at these centres, whilst additional items will be procured locally.

Support from the head office in Pietermaritzburg, if needed, will be dispatched. We are busy arranging warehousing in the various centres.

More details as the situation unfolds.

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