A birthday visit from APD

Agata Runowicz from the Association for People with Disabilities (APD) in Grahamstown paid Sinakho a birthday visit and spent time with our children on 10 April. She made some beautiful posters for Sinakho's stimulation room alongside Sinakho's psychologist Marie (far left). Between them is Centre manager Millicent.

Happy birthday Sinakho!

Yesterday Sinakho celebrated it's first anniversary! We were privileged enough to have our benefactor Rob Beer and his son Andrew in attendance for our birthday ceremony and report back. Sinakho has gone from strength to strength this year and we had some parents give testimony to the work we have done with their children - they all noted a marked change in their child's behaviour and improved motor and verbal skills. Congratulations to the Sinakho staff who have put in such an amazing effort.

From left: Centre manager Millicent stands alongside benefactor Rob Beer, his son Andrew and one of Sinakho's parents Reverend Bebe who gave a moving sermon at our birthday ceremony. In front of them are Lilomtha (left) and Thulani (right) who both have cerebral palsy.

An exciting 2013

It's a brand new year and Sinakho has had some exciting developments in 2013. It's been too long since we last posted anything and there's lots of news to share. We've taken on three new employees at the Centre - a new cleaning attendant, a social worker and a psychologist all the way from Spain. We were also lucky enough to get a number of new children who enrolled in the Day Care as well. In January local nurses came to the Centre to immunise our children and we've recently developed a psychologist/mothers support group which is proving very beneficial. This year looks set to be a successful one and we're excited to celebrate our birthday on 10 April - we will be turning one!