Since 1987, we have been working in rural and peri-urban communities throughout South Africa, teaching careworkers and parents how to help their disabled children develop to their full potential. The results have been astonishing.

We have seen children who were initially immobile, learn to walk. We have seen children with major visual difficulties learn to see better and children who were not speaking, learn to talk. These were not miracles. They were the result of the hard work by the children themselves and the dedicated, systematic and consistent hard work of the careworkers or their parents.

Nonhlanhla , a polio victim, started at Esinqobile in the late 1980’s. She has her matric, obtained at the Open air school in Durban.

Ntombifikele arrived at Esinqobile aged 3½ unable to stand, walk or speak. Within a year, she could stand, walk, run jump and speak fluently and intelligently as well as lead singing. She has completed her schooling and both she and Nonhanhla are working at Esinqobile.

Siyabonga was blind, epileptic and totally immobile for his first 10 months at Esinqobile. He can now count cattle in a field 60 metres away, has not had a fit in the last 5 years and is able to walk and to dance. He can contribute positively to his family.