Covid-19 orphans, the hidden pandemic

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Covid19 orphans, the hidden pandemic

In the Western Cape, the institutions said a grandparent and elderly aunt was a primary caregiver because of the drug scourge, the HIV epidemic and high unemployment.

“We have seen so many children coming in the last year unlike the previous years because of Covid-19. In the past, we would see new children coming in every two to three months but now the requests have increased. “We also assist with school uniforms, help with access to birth certificates, provide them with structures to live in because most times when there is no money to bury the parents, the family home gets sold to pay for the funeral and the children are left homeless.

“Even though primary caregivers need to be at least 16 years old, you sometimes get ones as young as 11 and that’s where social workers would seek placements or other homes.” “It is sad and we need the government to step up, Langa and Bonteheuwel combined only have about five social workers who are either off sick or isolating and therefore cannot attend to these issues. They do not have accurate figures on children because they are not on ground.”

 

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