Amalooloo, with branches in Pretoria, Bloemfontein and the neighbouring country of Lesotho, tackles and addresses sanitation issues amongst the vulnerable within society. 

The Amalooloo manager, Wimpie Strydom, says the company decided to step in and offer a helping hand to this struggling family following this week’s story by OFM News, which exposed the challenges the family of seven face daily. 

Strydom and the company visited the family on Friday to assess the situation, which will enable them to develop and hand over a formally constructed, user-friendly pit toilet for the disabled, amongst others, by at least Thursday. 

OFM News reported that Mamokete Segalo, who walks with the help of crutches, her 71-year-old relative, who is wheelchair-bound, and her grandchildren have no formal toilet structure.

Following the exposure of their challenging living conditions, this struggle is now about to become a thing of the past. OFM News visited the Amalooloo in Bloemfontein and was taken through how the plant produces the pit toilets which are user-friendly, even for the physically challenged. The 58-year-old Segalo and her family also struggle without electricity.

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An emotional Segalo, who has difficulty walking due to a gunshot wound she allegedly sustained whilst working on a farm in the Free State, has described their lives in that area as a living hell. To make matters worse, one of her grandchildren suffers from epilepsy.

OFM News/Lucky Nkuyane and Kekeletso Mosebetsi