GRAAFF-REINET NEWS — The Vuyani Safe Haven Annual General Meeting promises to provide an ideal opportunity for people to connect and learn more about the dedicated Vuyani team and their effort to provide a safe haven for abused and severely neglected children in Graaff-Reinet and the surrounding towns.
For the past 17 years, the registered non-profit organisation, Vuyani Safe Haven, has continued to provide a valuable and effective service to the Graaff-Reinet community by taking care of about 30 children, from babies to 18 years, who have been placed in their care by court order.
Over the years Vuyani has grown from a small institution with a manager and four caregivers to a fully registered Child and Youth Care Centre. The staff complement now consists of an office manager, a full-time social worker, a PR and marketing officer, an auxiliary social worker, a driver and eight caregivers working shifts.
All those interested in the well-being of children are urged to attend the AGM on Thursday, September 21 at 14:00 in the Supper Room of the Graaff-Reinet Town Hall.
More information will be available about projects past and present: how Vuyani’s ongoing fund-raising efforts have been rewarded; the appointment of a full-time remedial school teacher as a priority; capital projects which have been undertaken recently (made possible through local and foreign donations); and future projects requiring funding.
It is hoped that those attending the meeting will be encouraged to give consideration to ways in which they could be of assistance to Vuyani in future.
Vuyani is very excited to have Magda Smith from Aberdeen Primary, a full-service school in Aberdeen, as speaker at the AGM. She has a B Ed Honours degree with 40 years’ experience, mostly in the field of Education for Learners with Special Education Needs. Her topic will be “The challenge to accommodate learners with learning disabilities in mainstream education”.
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