Corporate Social Review Magazine 1st Quarter 2013 | Page 80

Overall winner of the NLB Awards Association for Physically Disabled Johannesburg Home Based Care Service Can you imagine your life as a person with disabilities? You can’t perform the most menial, yet crucial tasks – like eating, bathing and going to the toilet – and you can’t afford to hire someone to help you. That’s when you would realize just how important our HOME BASED CARE GIVERS are. Without them hundreds of people would experience indescribable suffering. They roll up their sleeves and do whatever it takes to make life worth living “It is not an easy job, but we work together as a team, share ideas, sing, and pray to release stress,” says Manager of APD’s Home Based Care Services, Miemie Retsuri. APD’s Social Workers started the Home Based Care Service in 1990, after they had determined that there was a need for a home-based care program in the community as many persons’ with disabilities and bedridden people were living in desperate circumstances without anything to eat or drink, and nobody to clean them. In some cases family members had left their jobs in order to care for their disabled people, with the result that the household income had either been dramatically reduced, or completely dried up, causing even more serious problems. Contact number: 011 646 8331 Contact Person: Rachael Legase E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.apdjhb.co.za Address: PRIVATE BAG X1 PARKVIEW 2122 78 Magazine Final.indd 78 CORPORATE SOCIAL REVIEW 2013/07/29 10:47 AM