About

OUR HISTORY
This project was started in 1945 by 3 mothers of children with disabilities on Wednesday
mornings in their homes to assist each other where no service for their disabled children
was available at that stage.
In 1948, these parents grew to 7 parents with their children with different types of
Disabilities whom then arranged a meeting with the SAVF (Suid Afrikaane Vroue
Vereniging) in Pretoria and a Social worker. The organisation was registered under the
name of Cripple Care Association.
In 1976 the Workshop for people with disabilities was established in collaboration with
the Witbank Municipality who made a portion of the old Library near to General Hertzog
High School available for handwork in the morning from Monday to Friday. Here
voluntary workers were involved and handwork created for their own use and or to sell
to the community. This activity in the same building continued until the Community
Building was finished and the project could move to their new building suitable for all
types of disabilities.

The project was registered in 1989 as a NPO with its own NPO no. The Community Centre was called The Round Table Community Centre under leadership of the Rotary and the Round Table 57. The building was built on the land belonging to Highveld Steel and Vanadium. The building was built with building material and labour sponsored by the community of Witbank. There was a lease agreement of 99 years, but when Highveld Steel experienced financial difficulties they sold all their land of which this property was a part of.
In 2017, end of November, we had to move out and the only place to go was to the HAPD smallholding bought by Lotto in 2005, measuring at 1,5674 hectares. The HAPD registered address is Portion 16 (A portion of portion 9) of the farm Kromdraai 292 , Registration division J.S., Province of Mpumalanga.
This space was not enough to render services to all our persons with disabilities (pwd) and we changed our 4x garage building into a centre.

OBJECTIVES

To render safe and uplifting supervision and services in a safe environment to 35 persons with disabilities.
To ensure that excellent quality admin and bookkeeping records are in place which enhances the organisation structure.
To render a safe and well maintained transport service to our pwd whom are transported
To render a service in a safe environment
To assist with contract work - Currently assisting an local engineering firm with contract work from the premises
To run a waste management program for additional funds

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

All attendees pay a fee for transport and attendance to the activity center.
Government subsidize the project for specific expenses which does not include salaries of staff or the transport.
All HAPD Finances are audited by a Venter De Jager Auditors at a yearly fee.
Receipts are issued for all cash received, i.e. cash fees, fundraising received in cash payout and cash donations.
Executive Management Committee are involved in all finances handled in the Association

PROJECT PURPOSE

Grouping together pwd on a weekday basis, Monday to Friday from 8:00 to 14:00
Transport already starts to pick up pwd from their homes from around 6:00 in the mornings and drop them off home from 14:15 to 16:00. This is quite a long day for our pwd but a needy enjoyable and stimulating service delivered to our community especially pwd. The pwd are in a protective, good supervised environment whilst away from home and are introduced to development skills in a socializing environment with their peers.
Assistance are rendered to the pwd in the following ways by the HAPD Organisation:
• Clinic visits and treatment – e.g. chronical diseases, medication
• Covid 19 vaccination – with family / parents permission
• Teamwork with rubber buffer project / waste management / handwork
• Life skills programme

MORE ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

TARGET GROUP
Adult persons with multi disabilities of all genders and races, from the age of 16 upwards.

SCREENING CRITERIA
Persons older than 16 years of age can be taken into the Centre for pwd

STAFF MEMBERS
Current employee compliment: Consists of 6 persons (Manager, House Mother, Part-time Admin, Bus driver, Domestic worker and Maintenance worker)

VOLUNTARY WORKERS
10x voluntary workers are involved in the HAPD programme from the Executive management to the persons involved and assisting with the daily running of the project. A fully trained volunteer is also residing on the HAPD small holding and assist with full time care taking.

TRANSPORT
Transport is a very high expensive service rendered to the attendees of the Activity Centre. HAPD has a 23x seater Merc bus (13x years old), a 7x seater Toyota Condor (22x years old) and a trailor (13x years old).