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Missionvale
Health Care in Port Elizabeth

www.missionvale.co.za
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The Missionvale Care Centre operates in the extremely poor informal shackland township of Missionvale in Port Elizabeth, South Africa - part of the wider Nelson Mandela Metropole.

The Missionvale Care Centre Trust, made up of volunteer Trustees from the Nelson Mandela Metropole provides support and governance for the Care Centre. The Trust is registered in terms of South African Law as a Public Benefit Organization and as a Non Profit Organization. We believe that education is the only ticket out of poverty and community transformation. Our school incorporates the principles of an Academy into its curriculum and focuses beyond the academic phase by preparing the child for the world outside Missionvale. This fosters a confident and inspired child via vocational training in small workshop environments, supervised sports, and exposure to the arts through drama and music. Normoyle Primary School is an independent community school that believes in teaching whole life education as a vehicle for community transformation and upliftment. This gives an opportunity to individuals who did not have the chance to complete their schooling as children, to obtain their matric and become more employable. Just as we strive to give children the basic skills they’ll need to lift themselves out of this poverty, we also provide adult education and skills development programs including vegetable gardens and crafts unit. The Community Gardens provide a wonderful opportunity for people of Missionvale to learn a new skill while producing a variety of vegetables. The gardeners are provided with their own garden plot, seeds, fertilizer, and the necessary tools and water to maintain the garden. Many of the gardeners take their harvest home to their family while others produce enough donate to our Nutrition Unit. This helps transition some of the people away from the daily food program of bread and soup powder and create more of a self-sufficient environment for them. In addition to our communal garden on the Centre’s premises, we have started vegetable gardens in the township. The ladies of the Crafters Unit work very hard every day on a variety of projects including curtains, placemats, hand bags, aprons, pillows and more. Missionvale Township is home to many of the sickest of the sick in South Africa. It is where Aids is the scourge that does not lessen. The clinic is always grateful to have medical volunteers to assist as the need in Missionvale is huge. EYE CLINIC: A volunteer optometrist visits the Care Centre once a week providing optical examinations and helping to provide the people with glasses when necessary. Giving a person the ability to see again is an amazing gift. COMMUNITY HEALTH PRACTITIONERS: Those too ill to come to the Centre are cared for through our Community Health Practitioners. Orphaned & Vulnerable Children: support for child-headed households and caring for children living in abject circumstances. In addition it caters for families in dire need with a weekly food parcel and provides nutrition to patients from the clinic who would not be able to take their medication without the food. Poverty can hide the dignity of a person, and when you don’t have proper clothing to wear, your image is tarnished. For accuracy in size and accountability, each family has a clothing card which requests their particular need.
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