Soweto home for the mentally handicapped struggling to make ends meet

Takalani Home for the Mentally Handicapped in Soweto is struggling to make ends meet after the name of the organisation had been implicated in the Life Esidimeni tragedy, reports Soweto Urban News.

Judgement Gumede, the executive director for Takalani, said: “The sponsors are pulling out while the current ones are no longer interested in helping us.

“The only funds that we are relying on now are from the social development and the health department, which are not enough to run the home. We have different patients with different needs.”

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Takalani home is also battling to pay its employees. Gumede stated that the home was now under new management and they wanted to clear the name of the facility. Takalani has reportedly changed now and they have nothing to do with Life Esidimeni unless there is a transfer of patients.

New management staff Rachel Motimele, Judgement Gumede, Lillian Mogapi and Modise Seemela.

Diepkloof Home is pleading to the community of Soweto to lend a helping hand because they are struggling financially and the new management is appealing to sponsors to not judge them by what occurred in the Life Esidimeni tragedy.

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