by WOF Editorial Team | 16 Oct, 2020 | Focus Article, Profiles, WoF Firefighters with disabilities, WoF service, WoF Women, Working on Fire |
Helen Kutumela is a young lady who hails from Modimolle in the Waterberg District in Limpopo. She was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma at the age of 8 years. Due to lack of education about cancer and its symptoms, her family believed that she had one of the rare illnesses...
by WOF Editorial Team | 25 Jan, 2017 | WoF Firefighters with disabilities
South Africa commemorates National Disability Rights Awareness Month annually between 3 November and 3 December. KZN Social Development Practitioner, Hloniphile Ndlovu, challenged KZN teams to try to understand the daily difficulties faced by storepersons who live...
by WoF Editorial Team | 10 Mar, 2016 | WoF Firefighters with disabilities |
Isaac Bome is one of the Store Keepers living with a disability in the North West Province who is very passionate about his work. Bome joined Working on Fire (WoF) early last year enjoys being responsible for the team stock and tool maintenance. With less than a year... by WoF Editorial Team | 10 Jun, 2015 | WoF Firefighters with disabilities |
‘‘Living with a disability has not stopped me from having dreams and goals in my life,’’ said Luyanda Kewuti, a Store Person at the Stutterheim Team in the Eastern Cape. Kewuti is a young man who is passionate about photography. He started using a camera since 2003...
by WoF Editorial Team | 20 Apr, 2015 | WoF Firefighters with disabilities |
Johny Mosito, stationed at the Pilanesburg base in the North West Province is one of the beneficiaries living with a disability in the WoF programme. He recently got promoted as a driver, making him the first disabled Store Person to be promoted as a driver within...