Programs

Day care

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aters for 150 children: disabled, orphans and vulnerable children.

 Children engage in activities that enhance their development, such as games, poems and cultural activities.

 Nutritional meals are provided daily to children who attend the day-care centre.

Physio-therapy and physio-referral is provided for disabled children.

Counselling sessions for parents of children with disability.

Group work sessions with parents and caregivers of children with disability.

Objectives

To supply day-care for physically and mentally disabled children and teach them life and educational skills.

To provide home based care to physically and mentally disabled children.

To promote the rehabilitation and well-being of every child who has a disability.

To be a home for disabled, orphans and vulnerable children affected and infected with the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

To provide services that will help with job creation for disabled, orphans and vulnerable youths to enable them to be productive and self reliant individuals.

To promote and provide services which will improve the physical, mental, and social functioning of children living with disabilities, including orphans and vulnerable children.

To make the community aware of challenges faced by and potential of disabled, orphans and vulnerable children.

Vision & Mission

Vision:  Creation of an oasis of hope for disabled, orphans and vulnerable children.

Mission:  Provision of services and interventions that will help to integrate disabled, orphans and vulnerable children into mainstream society through life skills enhancement and future job creation projects.

Our Community

ABOUT US

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tekeng Disabled and OVC centre is a centre situated in Meqheleng which started operating on the 25^th February 1998, providing a place a hope to disabled, orphaned and vulnerable children. It is a registered non-profit organisation dedicated to the care of children, who have been shunned and abandoned by the community. The centre was initiated by a group of volunteers from the community who realized a need for the welfare of children and saw the necessity of initiating a centre where disabled children would be cared for, and taught basic educational and life skills to enable them to be productive and self reliant individuals. Our main focus is to promote day-care and home-based care to these children, and to rehabilitate them by teaching them basic skills and to ensure that their physical, emotional and mental well being is met. After a couple of years in operation and change in management, it was then realized that there was also a need to expand services as many young children were losing parents due to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, and the increasing phenomenon of child headed households. The centre was then expanded to provide care and support services to orphans and vulnerable children.