About Cotlands

1. Cotlands Residential Care Programmes

 

1.1 Sanctuary (Gauteng) and Place of Safety (Western Cape)

 

Goal:
To offer quality residential care to children between the ages of birth and nine, who have been abandoned, abused, orphaned and/or who are HIV positive. 
                                   
Objectives:

 

  • To provide residential care for up to 60 children (42 children in Johannesburg and 18 children in Macassar) at any one time, from birth to nine years. 
  • To offer holistic care, which incorporates physical, emotional, spiritual, cognitive and social development.
  • To return abandoned and orphaned children to the community within one year, either through adoption or foster care, or reunification with extended family members.
  • Reunification or alternative community placements for children who are clinically well.

1.2 Hospices (Gauteng and Western Cape)

 

Goals:
To offer quality residential care to children with HIV/AIDS, which includes:

 

  • Palliative care to terminally ill children.
  • Respite care for children who are acutely ill.
  • Residential care for chronically ill abandoned babies and children.
  • Aggressive medical treatment for children with opportunistic infections who are not yet “end stage”.
  • Antiretroviral treatment where clinically indicated.
  • Educating families.

 

Objectives:

 

  • To offer holistic care for 50 residential children (20 in Gauteng and 30 in Western Cape) from birth to nine years who have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and who cannot be cared for in the community.
  • To offer palliative care to terminally ill children.
  • To offer counselling and support services for caregivers and extended families.
  • To return clinically well children back to the community through reunification or alternative community placements.
  • To arrange funerals for orphans and children whose families do not have financial resources to bury them.

 

1.3 Residential Orphan Care (Gauteng)

 

Goals:

  • To offer short-term residential care for newly orphaned children until permanent placement (foster care, adoption, placement with extended families or placement in a children’s home) can be arranged.
  • To accommodate the older Cotlands children who are clinically well and receiving (ART) and who have embarked on formal schooling.

 

Objectives:

 

  • To operate a place of safety house where up to twelve recently orphaned and vulnerable children can be accommodated temporarily until permanent placement (foster care, adoption, placement with extended families or placement in a children’s home) can be arranged.
  • To offer a family-style environment to the older Cotlands children who attend formal schooling
  • To ensure ART compliance for HIV positive children
  • To offer bereavement counselling to the children.
  • To screen and orientate children for their new community placements.
  • To address developmental and educational delays.
  • To prepare the children to cope emotionally, socially and scholastically in their new environment.

 

1.4 ECDC (Gauteng)

 

Goal:
To educate and equip the children of Cotlands with the necessary skills and knowledge to put them on an equal footing with their peers in the greater community.

 

Objectives:

 

  • To provide essential life experiences by creating learning opportunities and other experiences which foster continued growth and development.
  • To identify developmental delays and work out an appropriate curriculum to achieve successful remediation
  • To create opportunities that strengthen self-esteem and independence by ensuring recognition of each child as a unique individual, encouraging inclusion of the special needs child and fostering responsibility for self and others.
  • To ensure HIV positive and other special needs children are given equal opportunities and encouraged to develop at a comfortable pace.
  • To prepare the children for formal education through the effective implementation of the OBE system.
  • To provide holistic care, which includes the child’s spiritual, physical, intellectual, social and emotional development needs.