Children spend day with child welfare
The day served to build and maintain solid working relationships between child welfare, the children and their school teachers
CHILD Welfare Kempton Park invited 27 children from five different pre-schools to spend the day with them at their offices, taking part in fun activities such as painting, drawing and colouring in.
The children were from créches in Kempton Park, including Super Kids, Little Stars, Peter-Pan, Sunlight and Little Angels.
According to public relations officer for Child Welfare Kempton, Lebogang Makweya, this initiative was organised as a way of strengthening relations between pre-schools in Kempton Park and child welfare.
“The aim was focused on building and maintaining working relationships with children and their school teachers.
“This process was made successful by a group of devoted social workers and social auxiliary workers who are dedicated to ensuring the well-being of the children in Kempton Park,” Makweya said.
The children came together and were encouraged to play and interact with each other, and through this were taught valuable lessons of accepting each other’s differences.
“This event provided a platform for children to learn to accept each other’s diversity and uniqueness through interaction.
“Through this event, a warm and nurturing environment was created by the staff of child welfare so as to ensure that children are able to communicate their experiences through play.”
Child welfare would like to give credit to the managers and staff members of the pre-primary schools that were involved on the day, as they “work tirelessly to enhance children’s lives through equipping them with effective problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills”.
The director of the society, Karin Engelbrecht, said the organisation was aiming to expand its quality services to more children and building partnerships with more pre-primary schools.
“Our social workers will make regular visits to these schools so as to render screening of children and early childhood development programme,” Engelbrecht said.
“Our objective is to expand our quality services to many other children at pre-primary, primary and high schools, shelters, homes and informal settlements.”
