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“Children Can’t Always Bathe” – Water Shortages Leave Musina Families Struggling With Basic Hygiene
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“Children Can’t Always Bathe” – Water Shortages Leave Musina Families Struggling With Basic HygieneThis story was reported by a community journalist trained through our Social Determinants of Health Reporting Project, funded by Tekano.
“The children cannot always bathe before going to school,” says the Limpopo grandmother, who has been registered on Musina Local Municipality’s indigent support programme more than two decades ago.
The Musina resident says unreliable water supply has made it difficult for her family to maintain basic hygiene despite qualifying for free basic municipal services.
Free basic services for indigent households on paper aloneMusina Local Municipality says it spends more than R6.4 million a year providing free basic services to 3,842 indigent households.
Under the municipality’s indigent support programme, qualifying households receive free basic water, electricity and other municipal services.