PHUMULA CHILDREN'S CARE VILLAGE

Phumula Children’s Care Village is an orphan home that is based in Welbedacht East. Welbedacht East is mushroomed between Chatsworth and Umlazi. The Welbedacht area comprises of informal settlements as an RDP settlement and is therefore a society ravaged by poverty. Phumula Children’s Care Village provides residential care for orphaned and vulnerable children. Phumula Children’s Care Village was established to shelter children who are either abandoned, homeless or orphaned mainly due to HIV/Aids which is prevalent as the direct social impact of economic struggle in lower-income communities. As the plight of children infected and affected by HIV/Aids is a challenge for government to overcome alone. We are challenged now to unite to Rescue a child, restore a life, Raise Leaders, and Release a star.

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We have thirty children at the Phumula Children’s Care Village. There are seven completed homes. Each home is mandated to accommodate 6 children, one housemother and one care giver. The Phumula Children Care Village is one of the first cluster care Villages in KZN (orphan home) to be registered by the Department of Social Development in terms of the New Children’s Act of South Africa. The seven houses have the capacity to accommodate 30 orphan and vulnerable children at any given time and accommodate children as young as new-born. There are over 5 million orphan and vulnerable children in South Africa, mostly due to HIV/AIDS and poverty. PCCV exists to raise the next generation of leaders in South Africa. We place orphaned and vulnerable children with a trained foster mother who loves and cares for them as their very own to create a warm family environment. True to its meaning PHUMULA ‘place of rest’ is a haven of rest to children that have no hope and are perishing.