Water for the Cape – Drought Appeal

The City of Cape Town is on the verge of becoming the first modern city in the world to run out of water. Living in extremely poor conditions, inhabitants of informal settlements like Lavender Hill already have limited access to water in normal times.

Lucinda Evans is a community worker in Lavender Hill, one of the many townships in Cape Town I have known and worked with for 9 years. The current water restrictions mean that all the taps in her communcity are now turned off between 4am and 11pm every day.

With the prospect of all the taps going completely dry in April, Lucinda wants to ensure her community has the needed emergency water stocks for Day Zero. If we can raise some funds, she will use a trailer to purchase water in bulk and transport it from the supplier in the Eastern Cape directly to the most vulnerable in her community who don't have the means to do that themselves.

Find more about this cause in the video interview with Lucinda Evans linked above.

Philisa Abafazi Bethu – the Non-profit organization Lucinda Evans has founded in Lavender Hill, Cape Town and where all the donations will go to: http://www.philisaabafazi.org

A documentary I have shot in 2014 about Lavender Hill and the everyday challenges its inhabitants face : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoMl_G6rL9k

Thank you very much!