Vital Registration Campaign

06 October 2005

The MEC for Health and Social Development in Limpopo Mr. Seaparo Sekoati invites all media people to the Launch of Vital Registration campaign which is carried out in collaboration with the department of Home Affairs. The campaign will take place at Sekhukhune District which has been declared by President Thabo Mbeki as one of the Nodal Point in our province. The department is embarking on this campaign after realizing that more than one thousand people in the area are without ID books and the birth certificates. The area is also underdeveloped-without the electricity, no running water and tarred roads. The fact that people are without vital registration means that they can not access Social Grants.

The community is without a clinic and it becomes a challenge for them to access Primary Health Care services at the present moment. The MEC will also lead the departmental officials in demonstrating to the community on how to purify water at household level as an intervention to prevent waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid.

The MEC Mr. Seaparo Sekoati and a delegation from the department of Home Affairs will be engaged in door to door campaign to issue vital documents like ID’s and birth certificates. The Social Security directorate will register those people who qualify for Social Grants and the MEC will also be handing over food parcels to the needy.

The majority of people living in the area are from farm areas and child headed families.

The event will take as follows:

Venue: Mathukhuthela sports ground A (SekhukhuneDistrict)
Date: 08/10/2005
Time: 10H00

For more information contact Phuti Seloba on 0828070796 / 015 293 6053