New stimulation centre in Phola is booked and busy
The newly operating stimulation centre offers educational skills to disabled children in and around Phola.
Tholulwazi Stimulation Centre and Protective Workshop is making its mark in Phola and making a difference to the vulnerable.
The newly operating stimulation centre offers educational skills to disabled children in and around Phola from the age of seven to 18.
The centre teaches children basic reading and writing skills and other life skills that will enable them to work in the future. The centre also helps to promote their learners to the Protective Workshop in Tholulwazi Centre in Phola.
The protective centre focuses on assisting people over the age of 18 to 40, who live with disabilities.
The workshop helps the students with handy work such as gardening, needlework, and arts and crafts. This is done because students may not be able to read or write due to their disability.
The workshop is guided by the school curriculum of 2005.
Both the centres are managed by a local hero, Mbali Mavimbela after she noticed that Tholulwazi had been open for years, but there was no proper care for the facility and the people.
Mavimbela left her job at a school and decided to focus on the centre.
“The children used to come here every day to eat and leave; sometimes they would end up doing wrong things as no one was looking after them. So I decided to start with the stimulation centre and continued with the protective workshop. We formally started working on January 12, this year,” Mbali said.
The stimulation centre currently has 13 learners but is still accepting new learners. The school is also trying to register with the Department of Social Services to get a subsidy for food and other costs that need to be covered.
“We face a lot of challenges, such as not having a feeding scheme, but we try to make ends meet by using the money we get from the Department of Social Services to buy food,” said Mbali.
To register a disabled child at either the Stimulation Centre or the Protective Workshop, parents need to bring the birth certificate or ID copy of the child and the parents and physiology report from a doctor.
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