A Home for Healing the Hurt
Rina Malan was running her own crèche and did place of safety on a part time for many years when she realized that in order to make a significant difference
she had to do this full time. She then started AMADEA SAFE HOUSE, meaning "Loving Child of God”.
Today it stands proud – and true to its aim of providing a safe and loving Christian environment in which children can develop into well-balanced people. The
focus of service delivery is children in need. Abandoned, neglected, abused (sexually, emotionally and physically) and HIV / AIDS affected/infected children who
are placed in the care of the Malans by the Juvenile Court's until their cases has been finalized.
They work closely together with all the social welfare organizations in Pretoria and surrounding areas. Amadea The house is situated on a small holding and is
being used as a facility accommodating children full time in a loving family environment.
THE HOME IS NPO AND PBO REGISTERED
Our Vision
To provide a loving and safe haven for abandoned,abused, neglected and disabled children -of which some are affected or infected by HIV/AIDS and assisting in feeding the underprivileged in the community. To empower women in the area to become self sustaining by teaching them income generating skills.
What do we do?
Our caring is divided into two broad categories:
• The first is focused on providing a loving and caring home for orphans, abused and HIV/AIDS infected/affected children, which is known as Amadea Safe
House, while
• The second part of Rina’s work involves reaching out to destitute rural and local communities though provision of essential needs and people development
projects.
1) Amadea Safe House
Children are cared for until the juvenile court’s investigation is complete, and in many cases they stay longer because there’s no space in orphanages. With
limited capacity in orphanages, there is a continued increase in the demand for more space at Amadea. Rina believes that children need to be nurtured to
build their creative, intellectual and physical growth. Yet under her care they receive much more than this. Amadea provides a loving home.
But that’s not where their loving-kindness stops. Rina also acts as a mentor for an Hiv/AIDS home based care organisation to which she supplies food and an
educational programme, and she assists with feeding schemes in the surrounding areas.
She says: “Fourteen days after I opened my home I had fourteen children in my care. And I haven’t looked back. Words cannot describe the satisfaction that
we have derived from seeing little broken human beings become whole again.”
Amadea provided a place of safety and love for approximately 97 Children over the past 9 years.
The heart of Amadea Safe House is to provide a home where not only the physical but also the spiritual and emotional needs of these children are met by the
Rina and Philip.
