Residential Care Program
The King William’s Town Campus is registered to care for 160 babies, toddlers, children and youth at risk who have been removed from their homes through statutory processes.
Our units Mzomtsha, Ubuntu, Sunrise, Grey and Top are situated at 1 Syringa Avenue, King William’s Town and each has 3 qualified child care workers who are available at all times to assist the children. The children also have access to qualified Social workers who are based at the King William's Town Campus.
We aim to find foster or adoptive families for the babies and toddlers who are brought to us which are usually abandoned, affected or infected by HIV/Aids.
Our children attend various schools in the area including Vuthandaba Senior Secondary, Charles Morgan Senior Secondary, Jityaza Senior Secondary, Forbes Grant High School and the smaller children attend our community crèche, which is part of the Isibindi Model and is situated at Izeli.
We would like to introduce long term activities for the children after school and on the weekends such as sporting activities, hobby programs, reading and fellowship, and in order to introduce these welfare activities we need assistance from local and national partners.
Phand'ulwazi Life Centre (meaning Discovery of Knowledge)
The curriculum consists of an Adolescent Development Program, Family Outreach Work and Skills Training. These programs are aimed at any youth in need of social services and counselling, with particular emphasis on youths in trouble with the law. The Project aims to guide, support, empower and build capacity and responsiblity in our youths.
The program is unique in its focus on an intensive developmental curriculum model - it does not seek to provide only vocational skills because it is believed that until youth reach a point of personal understanding of their value, their place in society and the impact of their behaviour on their lives, it is difficult to generate the motivation to remain in a training program at our Centre. At the Life Centre, students are not anonymous and we aim to pour personal attention into the lives of each student, thus making up for where the formal schooling system has perhaps failed.
Our Skills Training includes computer classes, upholstery classes, electrical classes and a sewing program.
