Children donated teddy bears for comfort
RANDPARK RIDGE – Teddy bears will be donated to abused children.
Play Play House Nursery School in Randpark Ridge recently held a teddy bear picnic and asked it’s children bring extra teddy bears to be donated. Sherpa Kids, an aftercare business, also decided to share in the giving spirit and offered some more teddy bears. Together they will donate 30 teddy bears to Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children, in Johannesburg, as gesture of comfort for the children.
“A teddy bear is comfort, hugs and company,” said the nursery school’s principal Mariska Basson.
“It is important for children to hold onto them.”
Basson explained that the school’s gesture of donating the teddy bears, also helped to teach its own children to give.
“At the picnic we spoke about why teddies are good and why it is good to donate them.”
On its website, the Teddy Bear clinic states, that it is a non-profit organisation which seeks to ensure “abused children are protected and rehabilitated”, and that it provides “therapy, counselling, assistance, love, comfort, safety and ongoing support to children who have been abused”.
Details: Play Play House Nursery School 011 792 0660, mariska@playplayhouse.co.za, Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children ttbc.org.za , 011 484 4554.
