Margaret’s House not only provides residential care for children, but also offers a variety of different preventative and rehabilitative services which aim to reintegrate the children into mainstream society.

These services include:

• Assessment before admission by the social worker and child care workers.
• Provision of meals, personal care, basic health services.
• Stimulation of intellectual, social, emotional, spiritual and physical development through sport, craft, mainstream and informal education, recreational activities.
• Counselling and life skills development by professionally trained staff.
• Parental skills training.
• Family reunification services.

As outreach work, we provide daily bread to the many hungry and homeless people who knock at the home; we serve as an advice office for these people and offer telephonic advice to the public.

Do the boys live here forever?

For those who are orphans or who do not have regular contact with their families, we have a hosting programme. In this programme, people take one or more of the boys home for one weekend a month, school holidays or special holidays.

All applicants go through a screening process and an intensive interview. Successful persons are then allowed to host a boy who is compatible with their family. If there is an option of fostering, this is only allowed after a hosting period of approximately 2 years.