What we do

1. The Core Community-Family Home

Six orphaned children without any extended family available or willing to foster them are placed in our home and cared for by a foster mother. A relief mother is also provided.

2. The Outreach Foster/adoptive care cluster

Families in the area where the community home is set up are encouraged to foster orphaned children and are supported by the local Child Welfare Society. This has revived the spirit of “Ubuntu” and 60+ plus additional children get thus fostered or even adopted and a further 300 receive support through the social worker’s family care project.

3. Community and Volunteer Supported Programmes

Volunteers are actively involved in identifying needy children, maintaining and equipping the homes, running support groups and raise funds. They also play an important social role by taking children on outings during school holidays and organising birthday and Christmas parties. An “uplift programme” is in place to prepare teenage children for life “beyond the home”. Mentors guide the older children and help them to make choices with regards to further education, professional courses and earning a living. The aim is to plant ‘dreams’ so they have a reason to excel in school, develop hobbies and strive for a bright future. The DOW EDUCATION FUND FOR THOKOMALA provides our youngsters with the financial means to pursue tertiary education of any kind: University, courses, internships, etc.