Little Angels Home
Introduction
Little Angels Home is a Residential Care facility that provides care to 17 severe to profoundly disabled children (both physically and intellectually disabled). 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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Disability & Special Needs
About
🌈 Little Angels Home Profile
📖 Our Journey
- Founded in May 2005 with one child as a day resident.
- Expanded in December 2005 into a Residential Care Facility.
- Today, we provide a loving home for 17 children.
- Licensed and partially funded by the Western Cape Department of Health.
- Registered as an NPO with the Department of Social Development.
💙 Our Children
- Most children are placed with us through court orders, as families are unable or unwilling to provide care.
- Many arrive abandoned, making Little Angels their true family.
- All children are severe to profoundly disabled, both physically and intellectually.
- Common conditions: Cerebral Palsy and Epilepsy.
- All are wheelchair-bound and fully dependent on caregivers.
Daily care includes:
- Bathing, dressing, feeding, and nappy changes.
- Six children require PEG tube feeding (enteral nutrition directly into the stomach).
📚 Education & Stimulation
- Schooling Programme (Mon–Fri): Developed by the LSPID Team in collaboration with the Department of Basic Education.
- Ensures intellectual stimulation and opportunities to “learn” according to each child’s abilities.
- Therapeutic Stimulation: Daily in-house activities to prevent further physical disabilities caused by muscle stiffness and contractures.
🏥 Medical Care
- Primary care at Helderberg Hospital.
- Specialist appointments at Tygerberg Hospital and Red Cross Children’s War Memorial Hospital.
- Wheelchairs and buggies supplied through these hospitals.
- Regular 6-month follow-ups for: - Medications - Occupational therapy - Physiotherapy
👩👩👧 Our Team
- 20 dedicated staff members:
- 1 Operations Manager
- 1 Registered Nurse
- 2 Cooks
- 2 General Workers
- 12 Full-time Care Workers
- 2 Relief Care Workers
✅ Compliance & Oversight
- Licensed by the Department of Health.
- Annual inspections by the Inspections Directorate.
- Quarterly audits by the Western Cape Department of Health.
🌈 Our Vision
To provide expert, compassionate, and specialized 24/7 residential care for children with physical and intellectual disabilities.💙 Our Mission
- Create a safe, secure, and nurturing home for every child.
- Strive to be a centre of excellence, delivering the highest quality of care.
- Meet the unique needs of each child, helping them reach their individual potential.
- Embrace caregiving as a vocation, with staff serving as mothers to the children.
- Provide stimulating facilities and programmes that encourage growth and development.
- Invest in the training and development of staff, equipping them to deliver the best possible care.
🌟 Our Core Values
- Compassion – Love, care, safety, and a nurturing environment.
- Dignity – Respect, trust, honesty, and recognition of every individual.
- Competence – Commitment to quality, specialized care, expertise, and excellence.
- Dedication – Dependable, reliable, and responsible service to our children and mission.
NPO / NGO / PBO Number
045-541-NPO
Physical Address
3 Bridgewater Street, Longdown Estate, Somerset West, 7130
Coverage Area
Western Cape
Contact Information
Tanya de Jager / Delmaine Leitch
operations@littleangelshome.co.za / admin@littleangelshome.co.za
063 141 3746
www.littleangelshome.co.za
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Financial Assistance
We do offer 18A certificates if required by donors. You are welcome to donate any amount that you feel you are able to or would like to donate, this would then be used to purchase nappies, food, cleaning materials and toiletries for the children. You may specify as to what the money may be used for. You are welcome to make a once off contribution or a monthly contributionDaily consumables
- Nonperishable Food stuffs e.g. pasta, rice, mielie meal, oats, maltabela, instant porridges (morvite, mealie meal, wheatbix, pronutro, etc) canned foods, soup powders, stock cubes, long life milk, sugar, cordials, juice, long life custard, etc
- Toiletries e.g. bars of bath soap, liquid hand soap, roll on deodorants (male and female), shampoo, toothpaste, baby oil for massaging, vicks, aqueous cream, Vaseline, bum cream/barrier cream, wet wipes, etc
- Cleaning materials e.g. handy andy, automatic washing powder, dishwashing liquid, jik, furniture polish, toilet spray, toilet paper, tissues, Jeyes Fluid, pot scourers, paper towel rolls, toilet spray, pegs for washing, etc
Clothing for the children
- Ages, clothing sizes (2025)
- Sex Age Shoe size Pajamas/Clothes
- Female 5 years Child size 7 - 8 4 – 5 years
- Male 5 years Child size 5 3 – 4 years
- Female 6 years Child size 5 5 - 6 years
- Male 6 years Child size 7 - 8 5 – 6 years
- Male 8 years Child size 8 7 - 8 years
- Female 9 years Child size 9 - 10 6 – 7 years
- Male 10 years Child size 10 9 - 10 years
- Male 10 years Child size 10 - 11 8 - 9 years
- Female 11 years Child size 10 11 - 12 years
- Female 12 years Child size 8 - 9 9 - 10 years
- Male 12 years Child size 11 - 12 13 – 14 years
- Male 12 years Adult size 4 Adult small
- Male 14 years Child size 10 - 11 8 - 9 years
- Male 15 years Adult size 10 - 11 13 – 14 years
- Male 16 years Child size 10 - 11 11 - 12 years
- Male 17 Years Child size 13 13 - 14 years
- Female 25 years Adult size 3 - 4 Adult Medium
- Towelling nappies that we use for “drooling” and/or water proof bibs.
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ABSA BANK:
Little Angels Day Care and Rehabilitation
Savings Account
Acc No: 9284184889
Branch Code: 632005
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Date Organisation Was Established
24 November 2005
Organisation Structure
Non-Profit Organisation
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