Care centre needs your help
One of the centre's current projects is a family support programme focusing on a continuous food collection drive
RIGHT on Kempton’s doorstep is a care centre which aims to intervene in the vicious cycle of poverty and to give children, families and communities in need a chance to become a generation of hope again.
The Manger Care Centre helps individuals to help others and, thus, enables the next generation to excel. It targets areas such as feeding schemes, clothing provision, skills development, community upliftment, employment opportunities and rehabilitation care projects.
One of the centre’s current projects is a family support programme focusing on a continuous food collection drive.
Manna Soup Kitchen provides and delivers food to 40 early childhood development centres (about 2 000 children), an old age home and a centre for disabled children in the Daveyton and Etwatwa area.
The purpose of the Dolphine House project is to take care of abandoned and abused children in Mountain View, Pretoria, while Eden House, in Benoni, supports abused women and children, orphans, recovering addicts, ex-parolees, the unemployed, destitute and disabled persons, and elderly people who are unable to care for themselves.
Finding employment contracts for the unemployed is a highly successful venture in which Manger Care Centre co-operates with businesses in the surrounding area to assist in the upliftment of destitute people, as well as giving them an opportunity to find permanent employment.
Manger Care Centre Bakery was started in July 2009, as part of a self-sustainability and income generating project, boasting a fully equipped bakery in which staff/beneficiaries are trained to become fully qualified, to operate in this professional environment.
The centre also supplies Agri-Seta accredited agricultural training. It has two classrooms and the capacity to train beneficiaries on plant production, as well as animal production. It can accommodate about 30 students at a time.
The Benoni Boksburg Association for the Physically Disabled (Robmen House), which was established in 1985, looks after physically and mentally challenged people.
At Manger Marine, the centre provides independent living facilities for the elderly and disabled people of Tshwane.
To enable the facility to provide these services, it depends heavily on donors.
The Manger Care Centre is registered as a Public Benefit Organisation and any donations contributed, be they cash or material goods, are tax deductible.
For additional information, call the centre on 011-747 8700.
