Description

There are many children who do not receive appropriate care or opportunities just because their families are not aware of services available or lack the resources to access those services. By working with community leaders and members, doctors at Canzibe Hospital, teachers and home based carers, these children and their families could be identified, screened and assisted. This entails physically visiting the families and evaluating their situation, providing support and then following up to ascertain if the need was addressed. TransCape only offers the means to the solution, the family needs to implement it them selves. Needs that are addressed range from not having shoes to the parents not having transport money to take the child to a specialist in Mthatha Hospital. Through TransCape’s collaboration with HBC groups, many other child specific needs became apparent such as not going to school for lack of the small annual school fee that is needed or not having a school uniform. These are small needs with a low potential for creating dependency.