Marie Petersen, \u2019n voormalige verpleeg\u00adster en gemeenskapswerker van Atlantis, het 20 jaar gelede \u2019n visie gehad om kinders met gestremdhede te help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Petersen se droom is bewaarheid toe die Emmauel-dagsorgsentrum (EDS) in November 2000 sy deure vir 10 kinders met serebrale gestremdhede geopen het en sodoende werk vir ses inwoners geskep het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danksy Peninsula Beverages is \u2019n ou kompleks in Sherwood Park, wat voorheen \u2019n weeshuis was, gekoop en opgeknap en toe aan EDS geskenk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAan die begin was dit moeilik, maar met die ondersteuning van maatskappye en die gemeenskap het ons sukses in ons doelwit bereik,\u201d het Petersen ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
N\u00e1 17 jaar van dienslewering aan EDS het sy egter in 2017 besluit om die tuig as sentrumbestuurder neer te l\u00ea. Petersen s\u00ea sy kon nie vir beter opvolgers as haar dogter, Joyce Anderson en geestelike leier Ivanhoe Allies, gevra het nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anderson, \u2019n gekwalifiseerde maatskaplike werker, dien as die nuwe sentrumbestuurder terwyl Allies as voorsitter oorgeneem het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die doel van EDS is om geleenthede vir kinders met intellektuele en fisieke gestremdhede in Atlantis en omliggende gebiede te skep. Die organisasie s\u00ea met behulp van maatskappy soos Peninsula Beverages, Rotarati\u00ebrs-Nuweland en -Melkbosstrand word daar meer as 80 kinders en volwassenes by EDS gehuisves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie Norfolk, voormalige voorsitter van Rotari\u00ebrs-Melkbosstrand, het saam met Rotari\u00ebrs-Nuweland \u2019n groot bydrae in die daaglikse bestaan van EDS gemaak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Norfolk en Petersen het \u2019n baie goeie verhouding en is soos susters vir mekaar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cVandag sit ek dit verder voort wat Petersen met Norfolk opgebou het. Norfolk is steeds by EDS betrokke en ons is baie dankbaar daarvoor. Sy het \u2019n hart van goud en haar leuse: \u2018Ons sal \u2019n plan maak in tye van nood\u2019 is ook die leuse van EDS wanneer dinge moeilik gaan,\u201d het Anderson ges\u00ea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Met bydraes deur die provinsiale regeringsdepartemente, privaat sektore en gemeenskapsorganisasies kon EDS-projekte van stapel gestuur word om die sentrum volhoubaar te maak van afvalmateriaal wat geskenk is deur organisasies. Verskillende produkte word deur die personeel en kinders vervaardig en dan verkoop om sodoende te help met die instandhouding. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOns nuutste naaldwerkprojek is die inkopiesakke wat vervaardig en aan die publiek en maatskappye teen R50 verkoop word. Hiermee hoop ons om geld in te samel om diefwering by ons vensters aan te bring. Ons vensters word tans deur vandale beskadig omdat daar nie genoegsame beskerming is nie. Ons plig is om te verseker dat ons leerders en personeel daagliks veilig in ons sorg is,\u201d het Anderson ges\u00ea. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n .<\/span> Vir nog inligting oor EDS, skakel 021 572 0976 of 072 632 4737 of stuur \u2019n e-pos aan emmdaycare@telkomsa.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marie Petersen, \u2019n voormalige verpleeg\u00adster en gemeenskapswerker van Atlantis, het 20 jaar gelede \u2019n visie gehad om kinders met gestremdhede te 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