Emthonjeni Wokuphila Community Development Centre is a tax-exempt, non-profit organisation that serves the Thembisile Hani Municipality in western Mpumalanga, 65 kilometres northeast of the nation’s capitol in Pretoria.
EWCDC’s goal is to enhance the quality of life for the orphans and vulnerable children of the community, as well as needy adults, by providing a range of comprehensive support services designed to meet the physical, emotional, spiritual, and economic needs of these target groups.
Our primary focus is the daily operation of a care centre for approximately 90 orphans and vulnerable children that live within walking distance in the kwa-Mhlanga community. The centre, which has been operating for five years, provides meals, basic healthcare, educational assistance, spiritual and emotional nurturing, social support, computer training, and arts and sports activities for the children. It also provides training and counselling for orphan care-givers (informal foster parents) in the community.
Our first foster care home and youth centre in the Mandela Community is providing a model to develop a network of such facilities. EWCDC also has plans to create a place of safety for the elderly and infirm.
The vision of Emthonjeni Wokuphila Community Development Centre is, by 2015:
- To provide support services to 200+ orphans in two separate care centres in or near Sun City,
- To provide formal foster-care homes for 30 children,
- To open a facility that serves as a place of safety and care for the elderly and infirm,
- To have a capacity-building team engaged in 20 development projects in the community,
- To have properly trained, qualified and ethical staff, proper facilities and equipment, and sufficient funding to maintain this vision as both sustainable and reproducible.
The objectives in fulfilling our mission and vision are to:
- Establish a donation network of grocers and food suppliers in order to provide 2 meals per day to the children on the list at each care centre.
- Source and maintain a network of financial sponsors providing R42,000 per month for each care centre.
- Continually identify and evaluate the needs of orphans and vulnerable children in the community within the reach of our care centre and effectively minister to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs.
- Continually identify and evaluate the needs of people living with AIDS and effectively minister to their physical, emotional, and spiritual needs.
- Continually identify and evaluate the needs of caregivers (informal foster parents) and effectively provide training and encouragement for them in the areas of child care and nurturing, basic hygiene and healthcare, nutrition, and trauma counselling.
- Raise an additional R450,000 through effective fund-raising activities for capital improvement projects.
- Identify and purchase a bakkie for the transport of food and personnel.
- Identify and purchase (or secure the donation of) property for the construction or remodelling of a building that will serve as a second care OVC centre.
- Identify and purchase (or secure the donation of) property for the development and maintenance of an EWCDC income-generating project such as gardening, crafts, brick-making, poultry, etc.
- Educate the community, and especially the young people, on HIV / AIDS prevention and testing.
- Enhance the career-development and entrepreneurial training at EWCDC care centres.
- Improve the health/hygiene levels (practices and facilities) at EWCDC care centres.
- Training the community in income-generating and development projects.
Operates in: KwaMhlanga, Mpumalanga
Established in: 2005
Non-Profit Organisation Number: 064-912
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Contact person: Daniel Mahlangu
Phone: 082 349 9920
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Website: www.charitysa.co.za/emthonjeni-wokuphila-community-development-centre.html
Physical address: 668 Sun City ‘A’, KwaMhlanga
Postal address: 255 Mandela, Kwa-Mhlanga, 1022
