Om in \u2019n kinderhuis groot te word, is nie \u2019n alleenstryd nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By die Huis Andrew Murray Kinder- en Jeugsorgsentrum (HAM), wat al meer as \u2019n eeu bestaan, is almal een groot familie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hi\u00e9r word \u2019n veilige hawe geskep en die kinders word beskerm teen fisieke en emosionele mishandeling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kinders word waardes en norme geleer en ook hoe om hul drome na te jaag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 kan twee matrikulante Kosie* en Piet* van die kinderhuis getuig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sedert die ouderdom van 12 jaar oud moes Kosie en sy sussie by die HAM gaan woon omdat sy ma nie meer vir hulle kon sorg nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kosie se ma het aan depressie gely en sy het by die Badisa-kantoor in Kraaifontein gaan aanklop om hulp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dit is hierna dat hy en sy sussie deel geword het van die familie by die kinderhuis. Hy en sy sussie kan wel in vakansietye en uitnaweke by hul ma gaan kuier. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kosie s\u00ea dat in die begin was dit nie maklik om in die kinderhuis aan te pas nie, maar n\u00e1 \u2019n maand het hy reeds begin gewoond raak aan sy nuwe familie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit was \u2019n aanpassing want skielik was daar \u2019n klomp roetines in die kinderhuis waaraan ek nie gewoond was nie. Dit is die etenstyd, studietyd of slaaptyd en die re\u00ebls moet stiptelik nagekom word,\u201d vertel hy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir Piet en sy broers en suster, was die plaas- en straatlewe al wat hulle geken het totdat hy en drie broers in 2010 in die kinderhuis beland het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns sou net tydelik hier bly, maar ek het byna dadelik gesien dat hier by die kinderhuis l\u00ea \u2019n beter lewe vir my en my broers voor. Ek het gevra dat ons asseblief moet aanbly.,\u201d vertel Piet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Piet besef dat hy die regte keuse gemaak het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHier het ek van respek en dissipline geleer en om hard te leer en hard te werk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kosie en Piet speel altwee in hul skool se o. 19 A-rugbyspan en presteer ook goed as dit kom by hul skoolwerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kosie gaan volgende jaar onderwys by die Kaapse Skiereiland Universiteit van Tegnologie (KSUT) studeer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het my liefde vir kinders in die kinderhuis ontwikkel. Ek wil terugploeg in die kinderhuis vir alles wat hulle vir my beteken het. Ek wil ook eendag trou en twee kinders h\u00ea en goed na hulle omsien, soos die kinderhuis dit vir ons doen,\u201d glimlag hy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hy moedig jonk en oud aan dat hulle nie na die negatiewe situasie moet kyk nie, maar na die geleenthede wat gebied word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Piet se groot droom is om \u2019n polisieman of \u2019n bewaarder te word. Die afgelope drie jaar dien hy op sy skool se verteenwoordiger raad vir leerders (VRL) en boonop doen hy ook baie goed in modelwerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indien jy betrokke of \u2019n bydrae wil lewer aan HAM se mentorskap en beursfonds vir die matrieks kan jy <\/p>\n\n\n\n
021 873 3834 bel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Om hul identiteit te beskerm is Piet en Kosie byname.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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