Mbabane – Deputy Prime Minister Thulisile Dladla on Wednesday handed over two Neighbourhood Care Points and four newly built houses to beneficiaries in Mayiwane, in a joint initiative with the National Disaster Risk Management Authority as part of the government’s decent housing programme.
One of the four newly constructed houses handed over to vulnerable beneficiaries under the decent housing initiative by Deputy Prime Minister Thulisile Dladla in collaboration with the National Disaster Risk Management Authority in Mayiwane on Wednesday.
The two Neighbourhood Care Points are located under Mayiwane Inkhundla at Elufasini and Madelezini. Before the new facilities were built, caregivers at Elufasini prepared meals in a makeshift kitchen without roofing, while those at Madelezini cooked under trees. The new facilities, funded by PMI Switzerland through the Eswatini Government, will now provide safe and dignified spaces for meal preparation and child support. The Inyatsi Foundation also donated food worth over E10,000 at the handover.
The Deputy Prime Minister pledged to fence both care points and distributed food to the children present, saying the facilities will restore dignity and improve daily lives for caregivers and vulnerable children. 
Four beneficiaries also received newly constructed houses, each consisting of two rooms, a bathroom, a cooking area, a water tank, and a bed donated by Montigny Company. The Republic of China through Taiwan financially contributed to the construction of the homes.
One of the four newly constructed houses handed over to vulnerable beneficiaries under the decent housing initiative by Deputy Prime Minister Thulisile Dladla in collaboration with the National Disaster Risk Management Authority in Mayiwane on Wednesday.
The four beneficiaries are Gogo Khelinah Mhlabane Dlamini, 81, of Gwanyana under Mayiwane Inkhundla, who previously lived in a small one-room house with her daughter and five grandchildren; Gogo Tobhane Dlamini, 58, of Ludzibini under Timphisini Inkhundla, who lives with nine children and has no income as she does not yet qualify for the elderly grant; Gogo Tfobhi Sitsebe, 74, also of Ludzibini under Timphisini Inkhundla, who lost all nine of her children and survives on the elderly grant and piece jobs done by her grandchild, and who was previously renting a room until Umphakatsi provided land for her new home; and Peterson Mabuza, 21, of Mphofu under Mhlangatane Inkhundla, a young person living with a disability who stays with his parents and grandchildren.
The Deputy Prime Minister expressed appreciation to Their Majesties for championing housing for vulnerable citizens, reaffirming her office’s commitment to continue identifying families in need and assisting them.
