You could help ensure vulnerable children are safe
WESTDENE – Non-profit organisation Place of Safety needs assistance to renovate its newly acquired home for children.
Non-profit organisation Place of Safety needs your assistance to make their new-found home a true place of safety for the children it will care for.
The Westdene home they own was purchased for them by a donor, however, the home is a very old house (over 60 years) and requires them to do extensive renovations and fixing up before they can relaunch the home in April 2022 (provided all legalities have been fulfilled). So, they are looking for the following businesses – construction companies, hardware suppliers, security companies and garden designers – to come forward to either assist them with their time, their expertise, cash donations or donations of hardware/equipment.
Teresa Richards, who forms part of the organisation, said it was started in September 2005 by Joy Mann who saw a need for this place in the community that she lived in. Unfortunately, with very little guidance from stakeholders and the child welfare system, many of the children remained at the home for over 14 years. In 2011 Charity Fusion, a company that assists corporates in linking up with vetted and reputable non-profit organisations, came on board and increased their donor base.
It was important to the founder to have started such an organisation as ‘she saw the need for a home like this to exist to accommodate the many abused and abandoned children, as a result of this abuse’, described Richards.
According to her, the organisation has gone on to benefit many young children from the age of a couple of weeks to 18 years who had been emotionally, sexually and physically abused and who were placed in their care by the courts. “Sadly, many of these children have remained in our care due to the failure of their caregivers [parents/guardians] to rehabilitate themselves.”
Over the last 16 years, they have assisted over 30 individuals. One has subsequently been adopted and six have been placed in foster care and one is in the process of being adopted.
“This is a non-profit organisation with PBO status so any donation, whether in cash or kind, will allow us to issue you with a Section 18A certificate for tax purposes,” Richards concluded.
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