Thusanani Childrens Foundation
Thusanani is located on the 3rd Floor of the CMI Building
Terryl Mathibedi
011 484 3128
admin@thusanani.org.za
www.thusanani.org.za
www.facebook.com/TCFnonprofit/
About:
Thusanani Children’s Foundation a registered non-profit organisation
living the mission to address the developmental needs of babies and
young children in Orphanages. Thusanani offers speech therapy,
occupational therapy and ECD training programs to children 0-6 years
and their caregivers at over forty children’s homes across Gauteng.
The ideal is to integrate children into their immediate community
through foster families or adoption, this is not always possible due to the
large number of children. As a result, many children are growing up in
institutions where they do not receive individual, age appropriate
stimulation. Institutionalisation contributes to developmental delay, a
potential risk of future disability as well as attachment and bonding
difficulties, affecting the development of healthy relationships as a teen
and adult.
Thusanani means “helping each other” and their aim is to reduce the
vulnerability of abandoned or orphaned babies and children in this age
group who are growing up in temporary safe care. Thusanani is the only
organisation of this kind in South Africa and offer an essential therapy to
often marginalised children.