Hno
Rehabilitation in Bulwer

A little bit about the Hlanganani Ngothando Organisation and what we do.
HNO is committed to the holistic, sickness, quality and sustainable upliftment/development of communities characterized by poverty, creative, illiteracy of various kinds and social degradation.

The organisation plays an integral part in school life-skills programs, prisoner rehabilitation, occupational, physiotherapy and rehabilitative therapy for mentally and physically handicapped children and young adults; community outreach programs which encompasses resource distribution, health counselling, rehabilitative support, distribution of food parcels to vulnerable families, nutritional & community healthcare, home based care and Christian counselling. HNO is committed to the holistic, creative, quality and sustainable upliftment/development of communities characterized by poverty, sickness, and social degradation. Our mission is to act as a social support base and reliable channel of resources for just such community environments; developing and motivating those characterized by poverty in such a way as to secure a happier, healthier and more industrious future. When devotions are over the children begin their different therapy regimes. Each child or young adult is so different in his need and level of disability so that each program has to be tailor made. First of all we will discuss any cases that are problematic, and once a month we will discuss each family on our Feeding Scheme and make preparations to order and collect the provisions for the monthly food parcels. Both Sipho and Mlu have their own areas to cover and they know the needs of each family on the client list. They are well trained and very capable and well known in the community. Eric, the centre manager, and an ordained minister will also go out either to speak to students at a local school, or to make pastoral visits or run a bible study group in the community. Of course, typical is a bit of a generalization as there seems to be so many variations of typical. Sometimes we have visitors, or a child is sick and needs to be taken to the doctor, or it is pouring with rain and nobody gets to go outside, or a vehicle has broken down, or medicines needs to be fetched, or we get a visit from the Health department, or a child that has never walked takes a first step on her own and everybody is too excited to keep any sort of orderly routine. In the meantime 100 km away in Pietermaritzburg Andy and Xolani will be involved in a programme of prison and clinic visitation taking their well accepted (by the prison authorities and inmates) programme of hope which teaches about good lifestyle choices, and forgiveness. We are so grateful to all those out there that support us in big and small ways, with funds, or prayers, or encouraging interest (or all three).