Services & Programs

This programme offers a range of services as detailed bellow: Shelter/Accommodation: Beneficiaries are well cared for in a secure and child friendly environment. Children are placed by the court with court orders stating the period of stay for the child concern and the order may be extended after lapsing or the child be varied to another centre.

Nutritional Meals: We provide beneficiaries with a well balance diet meals daily following a standardized menu. A healthy diet that comprises a combination of different foods like cereals (wheat, barley, rye, maize or rice) or starchy tubers or roots (potato, yam, taro or cassava, Legumes (lentils and beans), Fruit and vegetables, Foods from animal sources (meat, fish, eggs and milk). 

 • Medical Care: Our beneficiaries medical health is a priority to the organization. Beneficiaries will any illness is sent for medical check up in our local clinics, general practitioners, and Hospital. Proper medical plan is followed for beneficiaries receiving medical treatment on a daily routine.

 • Counseling & Therapeutic Care: Our social work department focus on the social wellbeing of our beneficiaries including statutory, residential, aftercare and alternative care and reunification. This program aims to provide support, protection, and trauma counselling to vulnerable children. Through interventions made by the social worker regarding the situations of our beneficiaries, it is highly recommended to promote for reunification of beneficiaries with their families. 

 • Schooling: Our children are sent to local schools or their educational development and to blend with the community

It aims to produce enough garden fruit and vegetables for the project to be self-reliant, i.e. to supply the feeding programme. It also contributes to the provision of a healthy and well balanced diet.

By the end of each year this programme produce enough food to be used to feed children.

Children and Staff are involved in the project so that they may learn sustainable food gardening methods. The marketing of produce will develop business skills among the older service users and staff, which will be involved in planning and retail management of the programme. This could also open up opportunities for vocational training.

This programme aims to ensure that residents below 7 years old are stimulated and engaged through child- care development. It also ensures that they are part of the local community by accessing these services to the community. The programme has one qualified pre-school worker. The older service users are encouraged to take part in the programme. This ensures that skill transfer takes place between the qualified staff and service users. Service users are able to understand the importance of childcare and development. This year of 2010 already the pre-school has registered 13 children from the community and 7 from the home which entails that the community at large is core to the organization every day running. The pre-school is runned by 3 volunteers who rely on the fees of the children to do much of their work.

This programme aims to ensure that residents are fully included in the local community by offering a range of activities accessible to all 8 - 19 year olds from Atteridgeville and Saulsville. The programme is designed to identify individual skills and abilities, improve self-confidence and foster a sense of citizenship.

This programme is developed to offer a wide range of activities, in consultation with the children and young people involved. Currently, we have a youth group involved in drama, cultural dance, discussions and debates. Others are involved in playing soccer; we have two girl's teams and three boys' teams. Older service users will be encouraged to get involved in this programme so that they have an understanding of the role of youth work in community development and to develop relevant vocational skills - e.g. sports leadership.

This year of world cup the children have also started to do their 2010 dance which we believe to share it with the nation and fellow tourist.

This is a new programme. Its aims are:

1. Provide work experience for women; to give them a chance to earn their keep, raise self-esteem and update their job skills; and to produce an income for the shelter.
2. Empower marginalised women to achieve economic independence through acquisition of skills for gainful employment. Planned activities include sewing, baking and confectionery, brick and baby napkins making.

The programme needs funds to be able to address the identified.

Most staff at Leamogetswe do not have formal training for the tasks they perform. For this reason, Leamogetswe Safety Home has embarked on both formal training and skill transfer among qualified and unqualified staff. The programme is aimed at building up a professional and motivated team. It also aims at enhancing staff retentions.

This programme entails carrying out community awareness and education on gender, human rights issues. South Africa is notorious in child and women abuse. In recent times there have been numerous cases of child rape for children as young as a few months old. The perpetrators of these acts lurk within the community. This vice cannot be eradicated without empowering the community to take action and say NO! To any more abuse.