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What we are Doing
At iKhaya le themba, we are responding to the crisis of HIV and AIDS in South Africa where 1.4 million children have been orphaned by the disease. With the illness or death of one or both parents, children often are forced to move away from their familiar community, friends and school to live with family or friends elsewhere. Some are being raised by older siblings or no one; many siblings are separated. This means the loss of their main sources of love and stability, and considerable disruption to family life. It can very much undermine the sense of well-being of the children.
Who we Help
At the heart of iKhaya le themba is our desire to see these children grow up well, to be people who have reached their full potential and can walk confidently in God’s plans for their lives. To this end, we offer intensive care to 25 children who have been directly affected by HIV and AIDS or who are extremely vulnerable for other reasons.
These 25 children attend our centre at Imizamo Yethu, Cape Town, on five afternoons per week. They have access to specialised care that addresses their individual emotional, physical and educational needs.
They have a meal with us cooked from our organic garden. They have a safe place to play – a home away from home.
Whilst this specialised care is our core program, all up we have 70 children registered to our programs over three afternoons per week. The programs include:
* worship, prayer, games and sport
* life skills, such as craft, cooking and gardening
* educational skills such as reading (English and isiXhosa), life
sciences, economic management and numeracy
* opportunities for self expression through art and therapeutic
conversations
* access to specialist services such as a psychologist.
Something we do that is especially meaningful to the children is the making of memory boxes in craft to remember people they have loved and who have died.
We have five staff employed part time and several local, regular volunteers. International, short-term visitors are also welcome and can email us at wilsmor@telkomsa.net for more details.
Through iKhaya le themba, we offer hope to these children. We show them they are loved and have something useful to contribute in what must seem to many of them to be a world where they have no part, a world in which they feel completely lost and alienated, a world where basic survival from day-to-day takes on a whole new meaning.
Ways to be involved
1. Run a fundraising event for us. It doesn''t have to be big, it could just be a brai with a few friends.
2. Sponsor a child for R440/month
3. Come on a Saturday with a group of friends (or your home group) and do a special event with the children - make a wall mural, have a sing-a-long, run a sports gala.
4. Keep your eyes out for good quality second hand books in English that we can use at our reading program. (To test quality - think about whether a second hand book shop would pay you for the book!) We particularly need information books at easy reader level about things relevant to living in South Africa.
5. Collect second hand kids bikes for us - from your garage or from your friends!
6. Gather up a pile of used magazines for us to make into collages and teaching tools.
Contact Details
Katherine Morse
021 712 8414/ 076 255 5958
wilsmor@telkomsa.net
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