Om soos arende te vlieg: Dit is die tema van Engo se sorgverlaters\u00adprogram vir kinder- en jeugsorg\u00adsentrums se kinders wat hul skoolloopbaan afsluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As deel van hierdie program kom kinders van oor die Vrystaat heen in die Maart-vakansie van hul laaste skooljaar tien dae lank in Bloemfontein bymekaar. In di\u00e9 tyd leer hulle onder meer sekere vaardighede aan en doen skaduwerk by ondernemings met wie Engo \u2019n ooreenkoms het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Navorsing oor die program het bevind dat die kinders \u2019n behoefte aan bekostigbare verblyf het. So het Eagle\u2019s Nest, wat verblyf aan 12 jongmense verskaf, ontstaan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierdie program, wat 40 tot 50 jong mense jaarliks voltooi, is die teelaarde van vele mooi stories van hoop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frikkie van Dyk van Engo se provinsiale kantoor vir jeugsorg\u00adsentrums en verantwoordelik vir hierdie program, vertel hoe drie kinders se lewe aangeraak is nadat twee van hulle dringende werk aan hul tande benodig het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kamo Mbaliso (22), verlede jaar \u2019n matrikulant aan die Lekhulong Secondary School in Rocklands by Bloemfontein, vertel hoe hy eendag by die skool flou geword het en al vier sy voortande gebreek het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kamo, wat in die kinderhuis is vandat hy 17 jaar oud is, studeer finansi\u00eble bestuur, maar hy is nou dringend op soek na werk sodat hy sy studie deeltyds kan voortsit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vir Marinda Venter (19), in 2022 \u2019n matrikulant aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Sand du Plessis, was haar tande iets wat haar hele lyf vergiftig het en haar siek gemaak het. Die tandarts se werk aan haar tande het dus haar gesondheid verbeter en sy is baie trots op die draadjies wat sy reeds aan haar boonste tande gekry het \u2013 met rekkies wat by haar veelkleurige haredos pas. Marinda werk by \u2019n haarsalon in Bloemfontein en droom van \u2019n kwalifikasie in haarkappery en skoonheidskunde. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was \u2019n rebel, maar nou het ek \u2019n werk en blyplek,\u201d vertel di\u00e9 boorling van Queenstown wat al 11 jaar in Bloemfontein woon. Sy was sewe toe sy na die kinderhuis gekom het. Sy is ook \u2019n kranige judoka wat al Protea-kleure gekry het en silwer op \u2019n byeenkoms in Malawi gewen het. Marinda oefen nou hard vir die Suid-Afrikaanse kampioenskap wat in Julie plaasvind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar afrigters, Deirdre en Aldo Schroeder, l\u00ea haar baie na aan die hart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die kwotasie vir die werk aan Kamo en Marinda se tande was sowat R25 000 \u2013 wat hulle nie gehad het nie, vertel Van Dyk, wat tot einde verlede jaar hoof van die Ons Kinder- en Jeugsorgsentrum in Bloemfontein was. Nadat \u2019n plaaslike onderneming vir hulle \u2019n borgskap aangebied het, is di\u00e9 geld gebruik om hiervoor te betaal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die tandarts wat aan hul tande gewerk het, het nie van die program vergeet nie en het Engo einde verlede jaar gekontak om te hoor of hulle sorgverlaters het wat dalk werk soek aangesien \u2019n pos by die praktyk ontstaan het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So het Christina Pottas (19) daar begin werk as \u2019n tandarts-assistent en ontvangsdame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christina, wat verlede jaar aan die Ho\u00ebrskool Sand du Plessis gematri\u00adkuleer het, borrel oor die geleent\u00adhede wat sy gekry het en die goeie vriende wat sy in die kinderhuis gemaak het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk was paniekbevange toe ek verlede jaar besef ek moet die kinderhuis verlaat. Dit was ons safe haven<\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tale was op skool haar sterk punt en sy skryf van jongs af al gedigte en stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk hou daarvan om nuwe goed te doen. \u2019n Mens weet nie wat jy kan doen totdat jy \u2019n helpende hand kry nie. Sonder die Here sou ek nie wees waar ek nou is nie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Haar werk by die tandartspraktyk het haar soveel laat groei. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk kan beter kommunikeer, ek antwoord die telefoon en praat met vreemde mense \u2013 iets wat ek voorheen nie sou doen nie. Boonop moes ek op my eie gaan woon en verantwoordelikheid neem vir my eie kruideniersware, vir my eie lewe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2019n Arend het baie mooi eien\u00adskappe, en daar is sewe beginsels wat in die sorgverlatersprogram toegepas word. Maar een staan uit: Arende is die enigste vo\u00ebls wat van \u2019n storm hou. Hulle vlieg in die storm in en gebruik die wind om in sekondes ho\u00ebr te vlieg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hulle gebruik die druk van die storm om ho\u00ebr te sweef.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kinders wat in kinder- en jeugsorgsentrums groot\u00adgeword het, is almal deur storms, maar hier kry hulle geleenthede wat hulle dalk andersins nie sou kry nie: om hoog te vlieg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die projek word \u2019n 12de keer deur Engo Vrystaat aangebied om geld in te samel vir di\u00e9 liefdadigheids\u00adinstansie se afdelings wat die lewe van bykans 200 000 mense raak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Om \u2019n kans te staan om die Renault te wen, doen \u2019n skenking van R30 by enige Engo-kantoor of op engo.co.za. Elke maand word \u2019n gelukstrekking gehou en dan staan een skenker die kans om R1 000 te wen. 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