The orphans are organized into smaller units of six children with one foster mother. Siblings are kept together, and those with no family are added on to make up numbers. These family units provide a safe environment in which the children care for each other. Within our loving and relaxed atmosphere children soon recover from their physical and emotional scars and become happy, confident and well adjusted children. The centre also provides home schooling for the children.
Teaching takes place in Zulu and English.
At present the new site has no school building. The children will also learn other lifeskills such as construction work, gardening and how to care for younger siblings. Some of the children are HIV positive, and eventually become sick and die. The centre provides 24-hour care for these children so that they can pass their last days in familiar, loving surroundings. Four children have died so far, and although the caregivers find it hard, they are determined that the children should pass away at the center rather than in a busy hospital ward.