About our Home

Activities:

Disabled people have just as much fun with sports as able- bodied people. Sport is linked to occupational therapy because there is so much therapeutic value attached i.e. improvement of balance and endurance. Basketball, bowls, bow and arrow, swimming, swing ball, table tennis, darts and quad rugby are just a few sports played by people with disabilities. Other activities like computer and painting are beneficial to improve muscle and co-ordination. Many quadriplegics paint with their mouths and are assisted by the Mouth and Foot Association. Life goes on for a person with physical disability. There are only two choices: you can be a winner or a looser. They carry on after the accident being a mother, a father, a sister, a brother and a friend. There is nothing wrong with their mentality or their personalities. They are still normal people that care for their families and still study to be of economic value to their country and take life one day at a time.

Since October 1996 the residents have managed the home themselves and in 1997 they registered as a Section 21 not-for-profit company. Justice May painted a portrait of our past President Nelson Mandela in 1996. Justice handed the painting over to our President Nelson Mandela in November 2000. With the assistance of Mr. Nelson Mandela, we received funds from African Bank, Deloite & Touche, Anglo Gold and Droste Trust to upgrade and build new living quarters for residents and staff. President Nelson Mandela came to our home in December 14th 2001 to open the new wing. It was a great privilege for all the quadriplegics and the staffs to have our past President visit our home. Our home receives a small government subsidy every 3 months. This just covers the cost of our staff salaries. Each resident receives a disability pension of which they give 75% towards accommodation. This covers their water and lights, food (three meals a day), housing, washing, ironing and their caregiver. This, with the subsidy, barely covers our costs. Therefore we have to ask the community or businesses to assist us in funding or donations of any sort. We are 13 residents at the moment, four ladies and nine men. As we, the residents, run the home, we all try to assist in raising funds, may it be receiving donations of food or funds. Our objective is to improve the quality of life of quadriplegics by comprehensive care and accommodation in the broader Tshwane. We do hospital visits to new quadriplegics on a monthly basis. We do awareness campaigns at the home and outside the home. We have volunteers that assist us from time to time with projects that we have taken on. These volunteers consist of church groups and individuals who give up their time at a drop of a hat.