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Home from Home

Location Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Field Community homes for orphaned and vulnerable children
Director Jane Payne and Pippa Shaper
Website www.homefromhome.org.za

Community Homes
South Africa today can be a sad place for children. With HIV/AIDS cutting huge swathes through many families, more and more children are either affected themselves, or lose their parents to the disease. This leaves us with an escalating crisis: currently 28 500 children are abandoned every year. Many of these children end up in institutions.

At Home from Home we believe that children thrive and grow in as close to a family environment as possible - and preferably within their own communities. We aim to provide supported and supervised foster care for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children in small family homes in their own communities. Our homes are either purpose-built or are existing houses. While our first prize is to have children re-united with their own families, or adopted, we also aim to enable institutionalised children to return to their communities by placing them in one of our houses.

Home from Home vision
To build a network of homes in communities, and for each one to provide a family structure for the children in its care.

Home from Home aims to:

  • Have no more than six children in each home, all cared for by a House Mother with a part-time assistant
  • Provide fill supervision and back-up for each House Mother and encourage support from the local community
  • Monitor each home to ensure that the children are well cared for and that all their needs are being addressed
  • Ensure that siblings remain together wherever possible and that children continue in full-time education
  • Offer support to each House Mother by means of initial and ongoing training support groups and counselling
  • Ensure that each group of children and their House Mother is supported by a small group of committed volunteers
  • Actively seek long-term care for children by identifying family members, or possible adoptive parents, and where possible integrate children back into their own families

Lizo Nobanda Day Care Centre
Home from Home took over the running of the Lizo Nobanda Day Care Centre in November 2006. This crèche had been running since July 2000 and had been started by the Sisters of Nazareth. The aim of the crèche is to provide high quality day care for children under the age of six. Priority is given to children in foster care, or those who find it difficult to be integrated into another crèche, particularly due to ill health.

The three highly experienced edu-carers, Nomonde, Ellen and Ethelina provide a safe, nurturing and warm environment for the children in their care, incorporating meals, art, singing, dancing and school readiness training for the older children.

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Whatever affect one directly, affects all indirectly, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
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