Child Welfare Hermanus
COMMITTED TO OUR CHILDREN IN THE
OVERSTRAND
Child Welfare (South Africa) Hermanus is
a registered non-profit organisation:
NPO No. 002-883
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Founded in 1944 Child Welfare (South
Africa) Hermanus has a proud history of
caring for vulnerable children.
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Ours is the awesome task of responding
to one of the greatest challenges facing
South Africa: the survival, protection
and development of children in crisis
and at risk.
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Our dream which HAS to become a reality
is to create satellite multi-disciplined
child care centres were it is needed in
the Overstrand. Our first priority is to
establish one in Zwelihle, to extend the
centre in Mount Pleasant and to create a
skills development centre in Hawston.
Vision
We believe that children are our future
and our inspiration.
Mission
Our constitution says: The object of
the organisation shall be to protect and
promote the interests, well-being,
safety and development of children
within the context of family and
community and to safe-guard the rights
of children.
We promote the
well-being of children
in the
Hermanus Magisterial district-west of
Soutpan Avenue
predominantly poor
socio-economic communities by:
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Protecting
those in crisis and at risk.
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Enhancing
the capacity of families and communities
to protect and develop their children.
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Empowering
children to claim their rights and
accept their responsibilities.
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Facilitating
and helping establish a skills
development centre, focusing on tourism
and construction skills sets – giving
drug and abused children the opportunity
to develop self esteem and to progress
from the ever turning self destruct mode
they have become accustomed too.
About us
Child Welfare South Africa-Hermanus head
office is situated in Mount Pleasant and
is staffed by a centre manager, 3 social
workers, 11 edu care workers and an
administration support person.
These few committed individuals cover
Hawston, Mount Pleasant, Zwelihle and
all areas west of Soutpan Avenue plus
the surrounding farm areas, including
all preventative and curative child
protection activities in partnership
with the SAPS, Department of Justice,
Department of Health (including all the
clinics and the provincial hospital).
They currently have one social worker
looking after the needs of the Zwelihle
child community which is estimated to
total anything between 5000 to 7000
children under the age of 18 years old.
This mobile community is currently
supported from the Mount Pleasant office
but desperately needs to establish a
permanent presence within the Zwelihle
community. Ground has just been obtained
from the municipality but money is
needed to establish a child care centre
and ongoing financial support to
maintain this much needed centre The
plan is to link this centre to the newly
established cluster foster home in
Hawston This planned foster home will
safe guard 12 children with the hope of
extending this service to meet the need
of more children.
The other two social workers look after
the needs of the rest of the service
area where substance abuse is a huge
challenge for the team. They are working
with many alcohol and drug affected
children and families including 10 year
old children who are TIK addicts. This
is a key reason for Child Welfare
Hermanus wanting to establish a skills
development centre in Hawston to help
children in need to develop skills which
will allow them to develop themselves
instead of continuing to remain in the
current helpless self destruct mode.
Skills educators are already on board to
help and the ground is already available
for development.
Over and above this, the centre
identified a desperate need to create
crèches to help working Moms with proper
care for their young one’s, to combat
the practise of these little one’s being
housed in a shack, with little
supervision and no real nutrition during
the day. Three crèches are currently in
operation looking after 180 children and
additional space; rooms need to be built
to cater for the ever increasing need
Child Welfare South Africa Hermanus also
deal with children with FETAL ALCOHOL
SYNDROME, HIV, and Orphans & Vulnerable
Children (OVC) – this programme
supported by 24 community volunteers who
are each paid R300 per month to help.
The challenge for Rina and her team is
enormous and includes the child
protection statutory duties, all
preventative and curative child
protection activities in partnership
with the SAPS, Department of Justice,
Department of Health (including all the
clinics and the provincial hospital).
The perception is that the
state/provincial government provides
adequate funding for the needs of the
community and they are able to make a
difference ……………
Wrong!!
Current funding from provincial
government traditionally covers the
salaries of the social workers which
equate to just on 40% of what is needed
to run the centre currently. Hermanus
desperately needs to employ a second
social worker for the Zwelihle community
but all requests to government have
fallen on deaf ears. Through donations
and some crèche recovery costs the
additional income is raised but not a
regular basis and is seriously hampering
the ability of the centre to meet the
needs of the community.
The CTC cost of a social worker is
approximately R100K per annum and the
development and extension requirements
have not been factored in at all. We
conservatively estimate the funding
requirements needed to be well in excess
of R500 000 (Taking community based
contractors to work at cost and us
securing business sponsored building
materials)
Donations - Your opportunity to make a
difference
Child Welfare South Africa Hermanus is
an organisation that helps heal the
children who have become the innocent
victims of the world we live in. We
realise many residents in the Overstrand
do not know much about the good Child
Welfare does in the community and as the
only welfare organisation in the
Overstrand we also help the disabled,
aged and victims of domestic violence
whenever we are able too. YOU can make a
difference, by donating to us. You may
donate a one off amount or set up a
Debit Order account with your bank to
provide us with a financial gift on a
regular basis.
INTERNET DONATIONS
We are not in a position to accept
Online Donations, but what easier way to
donate than through Internet Banking?
Once the online transaction is
completed, simply complete the attached
DONATION FORM and push the SUBMIT
button, it’s that simple! Find our
banking details at the bottom of the
donation form.
CORPORATE / TRUST
/ BEQUEST DONATIONS
For information on Corporate Giving,
Branding opportunities, Trust enquiries
or bequest donations, please email
[email protected]
or call 028-313 0830 and ask for our
centre manager Rina
PLEASE COMPLETE
THE DONATION FORM BELOW IF YOU WISH TO
SUPPORT US.
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