Category Success story

6 Jul

Success of the Reggio Emilia approach

The Reggio Emilia approach does not simply ask us to change our environments and the learning spaces; it requires us to change the way we think about children and how they learn.

6 Jul

L’s story

Last month, three siblings arrived at Hearts of Hope. Their mother had abandoned them with a neighbour. The children, aged 1, 3 and 5 (we think that is their ages, as there were no official papers with them) were chronically malnourished and anaemic.

6 Jul

Mahlatsi – He will bring joy

When we are asked by social workers to receive a child into our care, we are most times given a background report and where possible told their current ‘story’ of what has happened that has led them to be needing our care and protection.

6 Jul

Anything is possible – Baby “B”

Baby ‘B” was only the second baby for Hearts of Hope to receive in 2008. ‘We have a hospice case – given up at hospital for adoption, very small will you take him?’.