Businesses, individuals, correctional services, police and other role-players in Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo, have collaborated to repair the dilapidated house of a 75-year-old woman.

This is part of Mandela Day celebrations this month.

Project leader, Phillip Seroux, says everyone he reached out to assisted to turn the house into a home again.

“I came to the house, I saw the house was broken down. There were no doors, no windows, no ceiling, nothing. The Lord put in my heart to do it for Ouma. I go to the sponsors, the Correctional Services, all the sponsors involved in the project. I spoke to them and said that’s what I’m doing today for Mandela Day and they gave all the materials,” says Seroux.