Sunfield Home – Wellington
Sunfield Home Wellington is situated in Wellington and is a protective workshop and residential centre for intellectually disabled adults who are unable to function without guidance and protection.
This diminished intellectual ability can be:
- congenital,
- genetic,
- caused by injury at birth,
- motor vehicle accident,
- sickness, or
- environmental deficiencies.
Examples include Down Syndrome, Foetal Alcohol Syndrome and oxygen deprivation at birth.
We are a registered non-profit company. Our income consists of monthly fees paid by parents and a government subsidy. The annual deficit is covered via contract work, countless fundraising campaigns and sympathetic and caring donors. Benefactors are our lifeblood. Your ongoing generosity and commitment is crucial to Sunfield Home’s future. Please visit our Donate page to see how you can contribute or become involved.
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Intellectually Disabled and the value of Sport
Sport at any age, and for anyone, is good. So there is no category that should face any barriers to finding good health, weight control, muscle improvement – not to mention the prevention of osteoporosis. However, it seems that people with disability are less likely...
Our special residents: Melinda Grobler
Melinda was born on 12 January 1987 in the rural town of Swellendam. Ten days after her birth she became very ill and was taken to Louis Leipoldt hospital via ambulance, where she spent the next month in the neonatal unit. The paediatrician could confirm that she had...
Bly te kenne: Daisy Groenewald
“Staan stil en luister sodat jy kan verstaan, nie net met jou kop nie, maar ook met jou hart.” Dit is volgens Daisy Groenewald die resep om Sunfield Home se inwoners by te staan. Voeg daarby ‘n skeutjie liefde en geduld en jy het ‘n wenresep. Haar pad tot Sunfield...