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Spreading love during winter

Township marathon

As a young boy, Wandile Billings often struggled through the bitterly cold nights without a roof over his head and no food in his stomach.

He wasn’t the only one.

In his community of Eldorado Park, many children were left to roam the streets without any shelter.

Billings would have loved to have been at home with his family, but there just wasn’t space to accommodate the youngster in his family’s tiny home.

It wasn’t that his family didn’t care about him, they were simply trying to survive.

Eight children and four adults in a

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