Deutsch boys helped Reea Foundation
Reea Epilepsy Care Centre is a very special place which caters not only for those who suffer from neurological disorders, but for everyone.
Six boys from Deutsche Internationale Schule showed their tenacity and will to do good work recently, when they got down and dirty on the World Epilepsy Purple Day.
The boys – Sebastian Steiner, Partick Speer, Reese Arnolds, Kel Wright, Demonte Sampson and Maximilian van Heerden – did their community work at Reea, on the Purple Day- a day used to create awareness about people who suffer from epilesy.
All the boys wore their epilepsy sponsored t-shirts and spent the day farming, planting seeds, cleaning up leaves, collecting eggs from the chickens and even got involved in a wheelbarrow races. The school boys also took part in an educational epilepsy flash mob which shocked shoppers at Sandton City, to highlight Purple day.
According the Epilesy website, the Purple Day was started by a young Canadian, Cassidy Megan, in 2008, who was motivated by her own struggle with epilepsy.
After great support from The Epilepsy Association of Nova Scotia, Megan joined forces with the Anita Kaufman Foundation in New York in 2009 to launch a global awareness campaign.
The Reea Foundation (previously Reea Epileptic Care Centre and originally the “Rand Epileptic Employment Agency”) was established in 1935. The foundation is a non-profit organisation caring for adults living with epilepsy and mild mental disorders who cannot be accommodated in a normal family environment.
Reea provides a well managed residential centre, with 24 hour care, which accommodates for over 40 residents in a comfortable, home-style hostel that includes professional medical care at all times.
The centre is located on spacious grounds in Craighall Park, Johannesburg, close to shops and amenities of Rosebank, Sandton and Hyde Park.
A range of activities, skills training and arts and crafts classes – along with employment contracts and education – have been provided on site, all with the aim of improving functional levels and quality of life.
For more details on purple day, click here.
Click here to visit the REEA foundation website.
