DIRECTIONS: Based at The Interchange in Somerset West, use the Builders hardware as your marker - drive past the complex, go 500m further on Old Paardevlei road and we are the first building on the left hand side with a bright green wall. Heartlands Baby Sanctuary, based in Somerset West, Western Cape, is a short-term residential safe care facility for 25 children at any given time. We provide ind
ividual specialised care and support to children in desperate need of care and protection from birth to 6 years. Children are placed with a valid court order from the Children’s Court. These are children who have been abandoned, abused, neglected, orphaned and, or are sick. After the Children’s Court proceedings are finalised, they are either reunited with their parents or family members, placed in foster care, transferred to other long-term facilities or adopted. We strive to develop the family bond by either visiting or being accommodated in the mother’s room. We educate them on how to nurture and safely care for their children, once reunited back at home. Heartlands Baby Sanctuary is a registered Child and Youth Care Centre and Community Mental Health Facility. Within this segment of care in the Western Cape, there is a considerable shortage of temporary residential facilities caring for children under the age of six suffering at the hands of abuse, neglect or abandonment. So, on the 4th May 2015, Heartlands Baby Sanctuary was born. It is important to note that a child who has special needs due to physical, emotional and / or health reasons requires distinct attention and care, thus health, psychosocial and ECD programmes form the 3 key pillars of our services.
