Heartlands is located in Somerset West in the Western Cape and is a registered Child and Youth Care Centre and a Community Mental Health Facility. The centre provides holistic care for orphaned and vulnerable children (OVC) from birth to six years of age. Children are placed “temporally” with a court order after which the child is either reunited, placed in foster care, and /or adopted. In rare circumstances a child can be placed in another institution if long term care is needed. At one given time Heartlands cares for between 20 to 25 children. Parents are educated to be better equipped in caring for their children, once reunited and back at home.
. . . it is every child’s birth-right to belong.
Heartlands Baby Sanctuary provides care, support and development to vulnerable young children and their families which include high impact health and palliative care services, effective psychosocial services and opportunities to achieve developmental milestones in as short a time as possible.
