Our Learners

One of the important things at Takane is that the children feel like they are at home, and are not missing out on anything. Many of them don’t have actively involved, loving parents, so the staff become like parents to them, and come from the Kya Sands informal settlement know as Pipeline, where they live in ‘mkhukhu’ tin shacks. When they first attend school, often they come without bathing, without uniform or shoes to wear, or even food to eat. Takane has become a home for them – a safe place.

 

We see the joy in the children, and how they do not want to go home on a Friday, and say, “tomorrow we are coming again”! We have to convince them that it is Saturday and there is no school, but they don’t care and still want to see our faces. Many times, when we meet at the informal settlement, they are so free in the sense that they see us as an extension of their own family, and a representation of who God is. It is so important for them to know that they are loved and cared for, that God is enough, and that they are always able to call on Him.