A special tea was hosted at the Morning Star Children’s Centre on Friday 13 March, to inform the local stakeholders of the centre’s merge with another South African non-profit organisation (NPO) called Living Hope.
The Living Hope Trust – based in Fish Hoek, Cape Town – is a well-established NPO and, like Morning Star, has been in operation for the past 26 years.
They have a proven track-record which addresses poverty, disease and despair through healthcare, education and community development. And, most importantly, both organisations are rooted in Christian compassion, aiming to uplift vulnerable populations. Living Hope assumed full custody of Morning Star on 1 January 2026.
They have a proven track-record which addresses poverty, disease and despair through healthcare, education and community development.
The current Morning Star Day Care Centre at the Kopano Complex, Welkom, is still fully functional and caters for between 90 to 100 children each weekday. The Kutlwanong Centre, on the other hand, has ceased to exist in its present form. Living Hope is in the process of introducing its own programmes there, the first being their “Family Strengthening” initiative.
This initiative seeks to build resilience in children and families through the provision of early intervention services, first thousand days’ work, disability support groups, gender-based violence (GBV) work, trauma care-counselling as well as advocacy for vulnerable children.
Training for “First Thousand Days” took place in February, with Doilene Maisiri coming from Living Hope, Cape Town, to conduct it.
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This programme targets pregnant mothers and seeks to support, counsel and encourage them through their pregnancies and for the first two to three years of their baby’s life.
