The Rainbow Daycare Centre, a haven for disabled children, is pleading with the community to help them feel safe again.
The centre was targeted by thieves who cut their fence, broke the safety gate and ripped the centre’s safe from the wall on Wednesday, 25 January.
Tatum Solomons, a social worker at the centre, said the thieves knew exactly where to go because they dodged all the cameras and went straight to the safe, from which they stole over R20 000.
She explained how the thieves cut the fence facing the R28, jumped over the wall and entered through the kitchen. They could not remove the centre’s kitchen safety gate and bent it instead to climb under it to gain access.
Solomons said she fears they will return and that she and the rest of the staff don’t feel safe in their own workplace anymore. She is pleading with the community to assist them with an alarm system to deter potential thieves.
“You work so hard and someone comes and takes from an organisation that has so little to begin with. I mean, we live hand-to-mouth every month,” she said.
She explained that the money in the safe consisted of centre fees, petty cash, donation money, and money gathered from fundraisers.
Solomons said the only way they would feel safe in future, and to protect the disabled children they care for, would be to have a security system in place.
If anyone wishes to assist Rainbow Daycare, the organisation can be contacted on 011 693 6841.
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