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A photo taken of the Cafda premises located in Schaapkraal after a storm that hit in August.
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he impact of August’s severe storms are still being felt today, as many companies, organisations and individuals continue to pick up the pieces. The Cape Flats Development Association (Cafda) is one such organisation whose Schaapkraal head office was badly damaged by the storms. On Monday 17 August, following the storms, the association wrote a post on Fa-
cebook. “Cafda just suffered a major loss with the cold front which hit us hard, where the wind ripped off and destroyed major (parts) of our roof structures of the carports and buildings on-site,” the post read. Several structures on the property felt the might of the storms – the administration building, fencing, one of its vehicles, the central hall and two wendy houses. This had a great impact on the organisation’s income-generating ability. One of the two wendy houses was used for trade skills training, with the other being used as a space to store donations re-
ceived before they head off to the stores where they are sold. “It’s been an extremely difficult time,” says the chief executive officer (CEO), Peter Cato. “We had to stop training because of Covid-19 and were forced to close. The stores in Claremont and Retreat were our main sources of income. “Our income streams are greatly reduced because of the loss of the donations in the storm.” The insurance claim received initially, he says, would only cover about a 10th of the roughly R400 000 worth of damage to their infrastructure, furniture and equip-
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ment. To make matters worse for the community development organisation, it estimates a further R200 000 worth of donations were also lost along with its structures, hindering both its income streams and the output of its disaster relief programmes. Currently, Cato says, the central hall where the feeding scheme is run from is also being used to store the donations that have come in since the storm. All donations and assistance to the association are welcome. V For more information or to make a donation, call Cafda on 062 685 0176 or 021 706 2050.