DROSTDY Werkplek, \u2019n beskermde werkplek vir volwassenes met verstandelike gestremdhede, is besig om \u2019n transformasie te ondergaan met die begeesterde maatskaplike werker Mia Smit aan die roer van sake. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het di\u00e9 werkplek soos \u2019n warrelwind getref. Die gebou wat meer as 100 jaar oud is, word opgeknap, die agtertuin opgeruim, die werkers uitgedaag om nuwe vaardighede aan te leer en daar is selfs \u2019n paar nuwe eetgoed op die weeklikse verkoopslys en die Kerskoekielys wat op 1 Oktober gesirkuleer gaan word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDis geen geheim nie dat dit baie harde werk is om Drostdy aan die gang te hou. Subsidies is absoluut nie voldoende nie en ons begin elke maand met R40 000 in die rooi,\u201d s\u00ea Mia wat begin Augustus as bestuurder van die Drostdy Werkplek op Uitenhage aangestel is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy ideaal is dat Drostdy selfonderhoudend moet raak, maar dit gaan \u2019n lang pad wees. Huidiglik moet ons almal baie hard werk en woeker om genoeg geld in te kry om die werkplek se deure oop te hou, die werkers konstruktief besig te hou, en om hulle vaardighede aan te leer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Daar word spontaan na die Drostdy Werkplek se 83 werkers verwys as \u201ckinders\u201d hoewel almal volwasse en sommiges reeds ouer as 50 jaar is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n Wees anders en help om \u2019n verskil te maak<\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Geld word ingesamel deur weekliks brood te bak en roosterkoek, worsrolle, jaffels en ander eetgoed te maak wat verkoop word. Buiten die kombuis, is daar ook \u2019n naaldwerk- en houtwerk-afdeling waar onder meer verstel-, herstel- en opdragwerk teen vergoeding gedoen word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mia is energiek, andersdenkend en \u201cnee\u201d is nie \u2019n antwoord vir haar nie. Haar filosofie\u00eb in die lewe is: \u201cYou only live once. You can\u2019t make a difference \u2013 if you are not different. The greatest thing you\u2019ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return<\/span>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n As maatskaplike werker is terapie-projekte om vaardighede aan te leer haar groot passie en daarom het sy \u2019n asesseringsl\u00eaer vir elke werker begin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHulle het gedink ek is van my trollie af toe ek s\u00ea, kom nou gaan ons bietjie inkleur. Maar dit is baie terapeuties en verg fyn motoriese vaardighede, s\u00f3 ek kon asesseer wie gaan goed in watter afdeling werk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit is vir my belangrik dat die kinders waardig moet voel en dit kom deur erkenning aan hulle te gee vir dit wat hulle goed doen. Ook dat hulle trots moet wees om by Drostdy te wees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDaarby wil ek die publiek en veral die jeug se persepsies oor verstandelik gestremdes verander. Mense help graag kinders, oumense en diere, maar vermy verstandelike gestremdes. Hoekom? Hulle het ook liefde, erkenning en menswaardige behandeling nodig.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n \n Opknapping van werkplek <\/b>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mia, ook die president van die Uitenhage Rotari\u00ebrklub, se pad het \u2019n paar jaar gelede met Drostdy gekruis, as deel van di\u00e9 sosiale klub se uitreik-projekte om \u2019n positiewe verskil in die gemeenskap te help maak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cVan die Rotari\u00ebrklub se kant af het ons begin lap en stop waar ons kon om die werkplek te help. Daar is ook heelwat mense op die dorp op wie se nommers ons druk en hulle kom help dadelik. Iets waarvoor ons baie dankbaar is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKyk, hier bars \u2019n pyp byna op \u2019n daaglikse basis en dan skop die krag ook nog uit. Die oonde is di\u00e9 plek se hartklop en ons kan nie bekostig om nie op \u2019n daaglikse basis te bak nie.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Drostdy Werkplek is een van enkele be-skermde werkplekke vir volwasse verstandelik gestremdes in Suid-Afrika. Mia het Yvonne Barkhuizen opgevolg wat vir drie dekades by Drostdy was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSy is vir my \u2019n baie groot mentor. Wat sy hier vermag het sal ek haar vir altyd admireer.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vir meer inligting oor Drostdy Werkplek, gaan loer by hulle in in Kerkstraat of bel 041 992 4195. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DROSTDY Werkplek, \u2019n beskermde werkplek vir volwassenes met verstandelike gestremdhede, is besig om \u2019n transformasie te ondergaan met die begeesterde maatskaplike werker Mia Smit aan die roer van 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