The AFM Executive Welfare Council is a duly registered Non-profit Organisation which exists to implement integrated community-driven responses that seek to promote the survival, protection and optimal development of traumatised children, the aged and people affected and infected by HIV.
AFM is aligned to SA Government Strategies for Children and meets the Minimum Standards for Victim Empowerment within the Prevention and Statutory levels.
UMEPHI is the Child Care division of the AFM Executive Welfare Council. It exists to create satellite home opportunities to children who have been placed in a children’s’ home under the order of the Children’s Court. There was a great need to remove children from large institutional facilities and to place them in smaller nurturing family-type homes. With this in mind the Umephi Concept was born. We currently have 31 homes, reaching 310 children at any given time.
The programmes of the AFM EWC are:
1. The establishment and management of Child & Youth Care Centres, Places of Safety (Halfway Homes) and Foster Homes as vehicles for the delivery of integrated services to children in crisis. This includes abused, neglected, abandoned, orphaned and HIV+ and special needs children between the ages of birth to 19 years old.
2. The adoption division renders professional adoption screening services, statutory services and birthparent care services. This division is a specialist in the area of adoptions and facilitates both national and inter-country adoptions.
3. We serve the aged through the management and holistic services delivery in Old Age Homes, Frail Care Units and Retirement Villages.
4. Comprehensive HIV / AIDS Care and Support Programme in five provinces.
Being a faith-based Organisation our programmes exist in communities which are supported and to a large degree driven by various multi-denominational churches.
It is the policy of the AFM Welfare Department to involve local church assemblies and communities to support programs by establishing a Management committee who takes responsibility for the functioning of the specific program.
In addition, role players within the Church Assemblies are trained in the implementation the projects. As such the homes within this programme are sustained by the individual churches.
The professional services are delivered by a team of social workers, social auxiliary workers, trained house parents & volunteers recruited from the various assemblies.
Operates in: Pretoria, Gauteng
Established in: 1938
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 000-762
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Contact person: Helena Jackson (Deputy Director)
Phone: 012 332 0599
Fax: 012 332 3819
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Website: www.umephi.org
Physical address: 1085 Hertzog Street, Villieria, Pretoria
Postal address: P O Box 31139, Waverley, 0135
