{"id":917280,"date":"2022-01-18T10:11:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/18\/new-home-for-family-who-lost-everything-in-fire\/"},"modified":"2022-01-18T10:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T10:11:02","slug":"new-home-for-family-who-lost-everything-in-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/18\/new-home-for-family-who-lost-everything-in-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"New home for family who lost everything in fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pretoria – The Molofo family in Moeka Village, Msholozi Section on the outskirts of Pretoria, who lost their home in a fire last December are the proud owners of a new house thanks to the generosity of a big hearted businessman.<\/p>\n

Moretetele Local Municipality Mayor Masango Manyike handed over the house with two bedrooms, an open space living room and bathroom to the family yesterday. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mother of two, 26 year-old Lucent Molofo, will live in it with her children and one sibling. She recalled the horror of the day the fire broke out.<\/p>\n

“My neighbour called me around 3am to let me know that my house was on fire. I was at my grandmother’s house in Stinkwater when it happened. I do not know the cause of the fire; maybe it was the electrical wiring,” said Molofo.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, at the time of the fire, there was no one inside the house.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She thanked all those who contributed towards building the house and said she hoped they would reach out to other families in need.<\/p>\n

Having lost all their furniture in the fire, she said they would have to start from scratch. \u201cWe would appreciate any assistance, especially with a bed or a stove. It is painful to lose everything, more so now as I am not working. We are now living from hand to mouth and it is very expensive.”<\/p>\n

She said they spent a black Christmas but that changed yesterday when they got a new roof over their heads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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After news of the fire, Amandla Ethu Construction reached out to the family and offered to build a house free of charge.<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s Olga Masoga said they decided to step up, working together with the municipality.<\/p>\n

“This time we wanted to give more to the community and we thank God we managed to build the family a house,” said Masoga.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He said the cost of building the house was around R100 000.<\/p>\n

The construction company was not the only good Samaritan to lend a helping hand to the family; a good neighbour offered them a place to stay until they had shelter.<\/p>\n

And yesterday during the handing over of the house, Manyike said: “Besides unemployment in the community, people in this area are faced with housing and water problems.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The family also received new couches. <\/p>\n

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Pretoria – The Molofo family in Moeka Village, Msholozi Section on the outskirts of Pretoria, who lost their home in a fire last December are the proud owners of a new house thanks to the generosity of a big hearted businessman. Moretetele Local Municipality Mayor Masango Manyike handed over the house with two bedrooms, an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}