Baphumelele Children's Home aims to provide a home and refuge to children who are handicapped, orphaned, abused, abandoned and vulnerable. This is done by providing day care services as well as running a children's home.
Executive Summary
Rosalia Matshala, founder and director of Baphumelele Children's Home, first started as a day care centre in 1989 in Site B, Khayalitsha when she was disturbed to see young children going through the rubbish dump looking for food and without any home of their own.
Today "Baphumelele Children's Home" provides a safe, warm and loving home to more than 75 orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children. A home for these children to call their own.
In August this year, shortly before receiving a regional Jet Community Award for their work in supporting 126 orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children, the Baphumelele Children's Home in Khayelitsha near Cape Town fell victim to an armed robbery.
16/06/2005
Thanks to GreaterGood South Africa Donors from Baphumelele
I, Rosalia Mashale, would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for donating funds towards the three gas burner stoves which are now being used to cook in our teenagers respite centre / soup kitchen.
30/10/2004
GreaterGood works for Baphumelele
Baphumelele Children's Home was one of the first projects to register with GreaterGood South Africa and has already received the wonderful support of Coronation Asset Managers who provided equipment and electricity for the Home's new kitchen.
10/10/2004
46664 also reached Khayelitsha
Baphumelele Children's Home which recently received funding to build a ‘step down clinic’ for children who are being rehabilitated back into the community was given another boost last year when Bono and Beyonce visited and pledged their support to ensure that all the children could be tested and could receive anti retroviral treatment, when necessary, through the Kidzpositive program.
Thank you very much to GreatergoodSA for allowing The Solstice Foundation to tap into your extensive network and resources in order to identify a primary beneficiary for The Solstice Foundation for 2005/2006, and at the same time, to identify other organisations that may also be supported by our funds in the next year.
