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Multimillion rand project to protect Prasa infrastructure launched
By Sisonke Mlamla
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Cape Town - In a bid to protect the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa s (Prasa) infrastructure, the entity has trained at least 270 volunteers in the Western Cape to join its newly launched programme, the People’s Responsibility to Protect Project (PR2P).
The more than R100 million project was launched by the Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula, the Prasa board, the police, civil and community organisations at the Langa train station yesterday.
The project was expected to be implemented in five phases: the launch and public engagement; volunteer training; deployment and integration; project monitoring and evaluation; and report writing.
1,000 homeless deaths last year as millions to help rough sleepers has gone unspent
The total figure was up 37% on the 710 UK deaths reported in the 2019 study.
Almost 1,000 homeless deaths occurred last year across the UK, a social justice group said earlier this month. Now it has been reported that money that was supposed to help rough sleepers was unspent.
The Museum of Homelessness (MoH) said the figure rose by more than a third on the previous year, and called for more to be done to stop such “terrible loss of life”.
The museum’s Dying Homeless Project recorded 976 deaths across the four nations in 2020.
The number of rough sleepers on Sandwell and Dudley streets stourbridgenews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stourbridgenews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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READING West MP Alok Sharma talks this week about plans to end rough sleeping. He writes; The Government is committed to ending rough sleeping in this Parliament and to fully enforcing the Homelessness Reduction Act. That is why we will be spending more than £750 million in 2021/22 to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping. The Government has this week announced the allocation of a key element of this overall investment: £310 million in funding through the Homelessness Prevention Grant that will be made available to local authorities in 2021/22 to support them in delivering services to prevent and tackle homelessness.