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Children of the Pelonomi Children's Home |
Left: Rev. Zacharia Motaung, President of the Baptist Convention of South Africa & Rev. Jeremiah Nyembe - Director of Pelonomi |
Class Photo of Pelonomi Children |
MISSION
It is Reverend Nyembe's vision to located both the Pelonomi Children's Home and Klerksdorp Girls HIgh School on one site under the umbrella of the Baptist Social and Education Center. A centralized location will allow Reverend Nyembe and his staff to provide schooling for all grades while also serving as a community center.
VALUES
Honest, Respect, Integrity, Love, Resource Effectiveness, Transparency
AIMS
To improve the quality of life of the legitimate men, women, and children in the center through physical, emotional, religious and social care to ensure their adaptation and acceptance in the community. As well as replacing some of them in their parents care or foster parents in co-operation with the reconstruction worker in order to achieve such objectives the project shall inter alia:
- To provide for the primary needs of the total number of children in the place of safety on a daily basis.
- To render social emotional and psychological services to the men, women and children living with HIV-AIDS in order to develop and empower them throughout the year.
- To present developmental strategies through out the financial year, to empower the women and children exposed to difficult circumstances.
- To provide the opportunity to stimulate all the children intellectually in order to improve school qualifications.
- To market the center continuously in order to get community involvement through donations, volunteering in order to augment the state subsidy.
- To extend the center service to the local community to empower it and prevent social problems during the financial year in line with the document “transformation of child and youth care services”.
- To offer work skills training to men, women and children who are scholastically deprived to equip them to earn a living when they have to leave the center.
- To explore the possibility during the financial year to employ an auxiliary social worker.
SERVICES
Home Based Care
- Provide care fore bed-ridden patients with HIV-AIDs and other AIDS related conditions.
- Ensure that care givers, lay nurses are trained and provide services according to basic provincial standards.
- Provided emotional support to children at homes where a family member or bread winner is infected.
- Provide a component of continuum of care for the community.
PLACES OF SAFETY
- Provide a shelter hospice type accommodation for abandoned children and youth.
- Medical care to the bed-ridden HIV-AIDS children and women.
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