A Warm Welcome to Leliebloem,
We CHALLENGE you to help us "PLANT" into the lives of our precious CHILDREN. We need your HELP to ensure that we HARVEST a future for every child in our CARE.
"Children are born with a sense of wonder and an affinity for Nature. Properly cultivated, these values can mature into ecological literacy, and eventually into sustainable patterns of living."
Make a SUSTAINABLE CHANGE today and see the DIFFERENCE tomorrow...
Make a SUSTAINABLE CHANGE today and see the DIFFERENCE tomorrow...
Best Wishes from the Director
Dear Friends, Donors and Supporters of Leliebloem House Children’s Home
Allow me to wish you all a very Blessed 2016. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you all very sincerely for your generous support throughout last year and especially over the December/January period. Last year we faced many challenges and had to make quite a few changes in order to ensure we make ends meet and at the same time deliver adequate services to the children entrusted in our care. We are now nearing the end of January and it feels like we need a holiday to recover. As always, we ‘hit the road running’ … any way, things are happening and our children have all been placed back in schools except for one or two of the new intakes. There are also a few staff vacancies as a result of some people moving to greener pastures. These vacancies will be filled soon. Our plans for 2016/2017 are to improve on service delivery and ensure that our children who are at the centre of this benefit adequately. In order for this to happen we will need to call on all our funding partners to consider us favourably once again. In addition to this we need your continuous financial support especially with regards to pledges, donations in kind and support at our fundraising events. We also need your continuous prayers as we believe that without Divine intervention our efforts will not be fruitful. GOD BLESS you all. Francisco G Cornelius |
HISTORY
Leliebloem House was founded as a House of Mercy by Bishop Gray in 1868. Archdeacon Lightfoot, gave a sum of money for the purpose of establishing a refuge for fallen women in Plein Street Cape Town. In 1886, House of Mercy was resettled on a site on the Leliebloem House Estate (where the present Holiday Inn is), made possible by through the generosity of the Society of St John the Evangelist.
Today it is a registered NGO, NPO Number: 003 227NPO that operates as a Residential Child and Youth Care Centre for 84 children from troubled families and backgrounds and with no consideration of race colour or creed. The Centre offers the least restrictive environment for children who are placed via the children’s courts.
Even though Residential Care is the core business of Leliebloem, we work intensively within these children’s communities and families to improve the circumstances from which they were removed. Leliebloem has numerous programs that are well implemented and are looked to as “best practice models”.
We strive to share our experiences from the piloting and running of these programs with colleagues in the child and youth care field. This is done by not only being available to them for knowledge sharing through site visits and telephonic support, but also by offering training and information sessions.
NACCW 2015 CONFERENCE
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ANNUAL REPORT 2014/2015
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If your wish is to make an impact in Reclaiming Children, Youth and Families in high risk environments.
We ask that you make a contribution to our Rand per Year Pledge.
We ask that you make a contribution to our Rand per Year Pledge.
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