Changed through consistent love and attention.
Our vision is to create an atmosphere of love. After receiving loads of encouragement, love and acceptance during his first year with us, this boy walked into my Grade RR class with much more confidence.
My name is Mariza and I am a teacher for the red Grade RR class. I had a 3-year-old boy who started in the Children’s ministry in the heart group. This boy had incredible signs of trauma. Whenever confronted, or just spoken to in a loud tone of any kind, he flopped, and went limb. He just flopped down on the floor, and we could not move him. He also used his hands to hide his face and it was difficult for us to work with him because he didn’t respond to any activities. The child was filled with so much trauma from household circumstances that we didn’t know how he would adapt in our program. The first year our program leader Lizette used to carry him around with her and sat with him separately.
Our Vision is to create an atmosphere of love. In the first year with loads of encouragement, love, and acceptance this boy walked into my Grade RR class with much more confidence.
We still battled with him to come to school due to social circumstances at home. The father and mother sometimes never brought him to school. The fieldworkers did home visits to ensure that the parents send him to school more often. In the middle of the year his father told him he does not have to go to school, he was very upset, and told his father he wanted to go to school, and they must take him.
He was a changed boy! From a child with no confidence in himself who hid under the tables and covered his own face to a boy who has got a proud smile on his face on his graduation photo’s. Standing up and answering all the questions, knowing all the shapes and colours, I’m truly proud to say that Ma’s Vir Wellington was a steppingstone for this boy’s future. He is now in Grade R, and we get good reports from his teacher.
