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  • This Home Is Providing Hope For Mentally Disabled People In The Eastern Cape [AUDIO]

    12 Nov 2013 by Jasmine Stone in Health, Mail & Guardian, podcast
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    Mentally disabled people in the rural Eastern Cape are considered worthless, even evil. When girls are sexually abused, mothers are no longer shocked.

    Ikhaya Loxolo is a home for mentally disabled children and adolescents in Hobeni Village near Elliotdale in the former Transkei. The “Home of Peace” survives with barely any funding.

    Ikhaya Loxolo consists of a few mud huts that Gunther and her husband and some locals built themselves. There are no special treatment facilities, no running water and the only toilets are self-dug long drops.

    We talk to M&G health editor Mia Malan about a small organisation trying to change the shocking way mentally disabled people are treated in rural Eastern Cape, and the support they’ve had since her article was published.

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