Workers from the Amalooloo company, which offered a helping hand to this family, prepared the ground for a flushable, disability-friendly pit toilet, amongst others, which is spacious enough for a wheelchair-bound individual.

The toilet is set to be completed and donated to the family of the 58-year-old Mamokete Segalo, her 71-year-old relative, a daughter, and four grandchildren this week. The family had to use an open space nearby for a few months after they were allocated temporary housing near Caleb Motshabi, alongside nine other families of the flood disaster.

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, previously told OFM News that the company decided to step in and offer a helping hand to this struggling family following a 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 physically challenged, amongst others, by at least Thursday.

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

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