Innovation for the Blind het onlangs sy Wellness Centre geopen.<\/p>\n
Die idee vir die sentrum het jare gelede ontstaan toe van die inwoners graag wou leer hoe om masserings te doen.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn daardie stadium was ek nog \u2019n arbeidsterapeut hier en het toe aan \u2019n informele kursus begin werk en met hul opleiding begin. Maar die projek het toe vir \u2019n hele paar jaar stilgestaan. Later het daar weer inwoners gekom en ges\u00ea hulle wil dit aanleer.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeen daai tyd was ek toe al die uitvoerende hoof en het toe nie tyd gehad nie,\u201d verduidelik Stephn\u00e9 Botha, uitvoerende hoof van Innovation for the Blind. <\/p>\n
Vrywilligers uit die gemeenskap is toe genader om met die opleiding te help en die raadsaaltafel is sommer ingespan vir opleidingsdoeleindes.<\/p>\n
Nog \u2019n paar jaar later het Innovation for the Blind besluit om dit \u2019n meer formele deel van die organisasie te maak.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het toe \u2019n klein vertrek ingerig. En dis toe die droom om hierdie afdeling nog verder uit te brei ontstaan het. Dis ook toe Terelga Bald by ons aangesluit het.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bald het haar sig in 2020 as gevolg van gloukoom verloor, maar was vasberade om steeds \u2019n opwindende lewe te lei en het besluit om refleksologie by die Beauty Therapy Institute te gaan leer.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is opreg opgewonde hieroor. Ek is ook opgewonde oor die feit dat mense kan leer en bemagtig word en as gevolg hiervan weer lus is vir die lewe. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy hoop is dat ons die publiek se ondersteuning sal ontvang, want ons bied dieselfde dienste aan as ander plekke, ons is op dieselfde manier opgelei.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk hoop dat ander plekke van ons opgeleide mense sal aanstel. En ek hoop dat ons kan voortgaan om meer mense hierin op te lei,\u201d s\u00ea Bald.<\/p>\n
Botha meen Bald is fenomenaal. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn samewerking met Terelga het ek toe \u2019n geleentheid gesien om die projek in werksgeleenthede om te skep. Terelga is fenomenaal, sy het ons inwoners opgelei en ons het die beste drie gekies om masseuse en masseur te wees,\u201d verduidelik Botha.<\/p>\n
Hulle rol tans die eerste fase van die Wellness Centre uit.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns het \u2019n vraag op ons Facebook-blad gepos waar ons vra watter dag die publiek dink die sentrum oop moet wees.<\/p>\n
\u201cVir eers gaan ons net een dag per week oop wees sodat ons kli\u00ebntebasis kan groei en so ook mettertyd \u2019n volwaardige diens kan lewer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sy vertel ook hoe opgewonde die masseuse en masseur is.<\/p>\n
\u201cHulle is verskriklik opgewonde. Hierdie is vir hulle \u2019n droom-werksgeleentheid. En ek hoop dat deur hierdie projek daar sommer nog baie nuwe geleenthede gaan kom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vir die toekoms voorsien sy die uitbreiding van hul produkte by die sentrum, veral hul koffie-voetskrop-produk om sodoende ook vir ander werksgeleenthede te skep. <\/p>\n
Botha nooi graag die publiek uit om hul vraag op hul Facebook-blad, Innovation for the Blind, te beantwoord en ook om \u2019n afspraak te maak vir \u2019n professionele en ontspannende massering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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