Services

Residential Care Facility

Residential Care from 60 intelectually impaired, multiple-disabled adults varying in age from 18 – 75 years. Creating a homely environment and keeping residents part of the family / social structure forms an integral part of the holistic 24-Hour nursing care. Performing tasks in various departments of our Facility gives them a sense of belonging which increases self-esteem and –confidence.

24-Hour Healthcare / Rehabilitation / Family Preservation

This service provides holistic care in a rehabilitative manner concentrating on family preservation through maintaining contact with the families and rebuilding damaged relationships. HIV / Aids awareness is part of this process as is acceptable behaviour, a work ethic and the entire programme is geared to achieving and developing each individual to their full potential and building good relationships within their family unite in order to maximise contact and in some cases rehabilitation to their families care. Each resident undergoes a full evaluation and an individual development plan to ensure rehabilitation within the framework of which they are capable of achieving.

Day-Care

On a daily basis 25 profoundly disabled members are fetched from the surrounding informal communities by free transport. Providing stimulation and opportunities to socialise to combat boredom and possible abuse at home, whilst parents / family members are freed to pursue work on the open labour-market with the assurance that their child / sibling is cared for. A light lunch plus tea-time snacks are provided.

Workshops

The Protective Workshop was begun in two garages in 1992 as part of a rehabilitation programme teaching life-skills and vocational skills tailored to the abilities of the residents. The aim is to take them through the workshop into sheltered employment on the open-labour market. One workshop caters for the more limited participants where craft orientated products are made and the other workshop manufactures various garden products e.g. trellises, garden edging, planter boxes and playground equipment.

The garden provides fresh produce for the Residential Care Facility.

Outreach Programme

This service is multi-faceted catering for the full spectrum of problems encountered by people with epilepsy in the community. 97% of the programme covers people with a sub-economic income or none at all and rural and informal communities where there are few services.

The organisation is committed to self-presentation and capacity building to ensure that governance issues are understood and participation is meaningful, guiding the services in a needs driven manner.

4 Support- and Craft Groups have been established in the communities teaching participants skills to enhance self-worth and ultimately self-sufficiency. Counselling is provided to parents and people with epilepsy newly diagnosed with the condition. A high level of priority is given to training of educators, learners and medical staff and dissemination of information to the general public, employers/ees and other organisations to minimise the myths surrounding the condition.

Providing specialised services by a visiting doctor from the Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town twice per annum to rural and deep rural areas, monitoring people with uncontrolled epilepsy.

Fourteen (14) Lotto-funded Soup Kitchens in the area were established in the past year and provides food security for 840 identified people five days per week.

Advocacy

Advocacy training is an integral part of our skills transfer training in order to empower people to access their needs through existing channels and to lobby for those that are not recognised. Promote awareness as to the human rights of people with epilepsy by addressing any discrimination against adults and children with the condition. Helping them to find employment as well as keeping children part of mainstream schools.