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Flamingo ‘here to stay’ RESIDENTS living in Flamingo Crescent may be empowered in a bid to deter the community from crime. An initiative has been proposed to equip residents with practical skills to improve the shack dwellers’ living conditions. Businessman Shaboodien Roomanay initiated the idea and says while it is still in its planning stages, he is hoping for organisations and residents to come on board. “Children’s living conditions need to be
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improved. Empowering their parents is always a good place to start.” The settlement’s committee chairperson Winston le Roux says they welcome the idea. “Over 80% of the 800 to 1 000 people staying here are unemployed. The youth who are unemployed will be interested in gaining skills to improve their lives.” Career Junction has advised they may be able to assist in accessing funds from the Sector Education and Training Authority, Roomanay says. “There are lots of unemployed youth living in the informal settlement. We need to see how we can educate these youth and break the cycle of poverty. We will start by doing an audit of the people staying in the settlement to determine their needs,” he says. Ward councillor Anthea Green says the empowerment scheme it is an excellent idea.
She says: “You cannot go wrong by empowering people. However, people prefer handouts and it will be interesting to see how many of the residents climb on board. “Residents staying at the informal settlement are a part of Lansdowne and if they wish to be empowered, we should assist as it may mean they will move on and out of Flamingo Crescent as they can afford a place of their own.” Provincial Community Police Board chairperson Hanif Loonat says Lansdowne residents’ need to stop wishing away those living in Flamingo Crescent. “We failed by condemning them. We failed to remove them. We now need to get the concerned leadership around a table and come up with a plan to integrate these residents into our community,” Loonat says. “We need to change our tactics and help bet-
ter the lives of these people. If we leave them to live under the conditions they are currently, Flamingo Crescent will continue to breed criminals. We need to partner with government to come up with an empowerment project. We need to educate and train them in practical fields like carpentry.” The squatter camp is to be reblocked, meaning the area will be organised into a cleaner and more liveable space. This process is still in its planning stages. “We hope to rearrange the shacks and put the toilets on one side to reduce the risk of a fire rapidly spreading through the settlement,” says Green. When People’s Post visited the informal settlement, young men could be seen landscaping and tidying up the area in front of their home. Women were sweeping their stoeps while children played in the road.
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