Kind-hearted pilots spruce up clinic for abused children
The group fixed the clinic's toilets, painted their house, fixed the front security gate, donated tons of teddy bears and helped everywhere they could.
Each year the Krugersdorp Flying Club gives back to its community by supporting a welfare organisation.
They identify a welfare-type organisation in the Krugersdorp area to support as part of their social responsibility initiative. This year the club members have decided to help the Krugersdorp Teddy Bear Clinic for abused children.
“As a flying club we believe in investing in our community and have been doing various projects for more than 10 years,” said Grant Rousseau, a pilot and club member.
“The club members donate money, products or services for the project and we try and finalise this by the end of the year. Repairs at the clinic cost more or less R13 000 and the pilots and club members collected and donated all of it. The group fixed the clinic’s toilets, painted their house, fixed the front security gate, donated tons of teddy bears and helped everywhere they could,” he said.
The Teddy Bear Clinic was established in 1986 in response to an urgent need for physically or sexually abused children to undergo medical examinations. The clinic helps those children to testify against their abusers in court.
Child abuse cases constitute a highly specialised field of expertise, requiring the highest level of sensitivity, care and confidence in making diagnoses and the subsequent decisions to serve the best interests of the child.
They also help to minimise the harm done to a child (whether physically or emotionally) and prevent secondary victimisation to children and their families when entering the child-protection system by providing expertise, information, education and support to make their journey to healing a meaningful one.
“It’s called the Teddy Bear Clinic because of the company’s aim to help children escape from a bad life to a good one, and a teddy bear is their travel companion,” said Dalene Bishop, donor liaison officer for the clinic.
To find out more about the Teddy Bear Clinic, visit www.ttbc.org.za or contact their head office on 011 484 4554.
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