Improving comfort and safety for the young visitors to the Mercury Hibberdene Children’s Holiday Home is the goal of the extensive refurbishment project that Sibaya Community Trust will be rolling out in September 2017. The Trust will fund renovations to the home’s ablutions and main hall, as well as the purchase of equipment, cutlery, crockery and linen to the tune of R520 000 as part of its commitment to vulnerable children. The grant was officially handed over to the Mercury Hibberdene Children’s Holiday Home on 18 August 2017.
For over 80 years, every year, over 1 000 children make their way to the home where camps for vulnerable and orphaned children are hosted. Today, the home provides structured educational adventure camps for orphaned and vulnerable children which are overseen by trained adventure educators. This offers children from disadvantaged backgrounds an opportunity to enjoy “time out” from the harsh realities of life and just for those few days know and enjoy the freedom of being a child. Due to the buildings being old and their proximity to the beach, the home needed some tender loving care.
Commenting on the refurbishment project, Chairman of Sibaya and Trustee of the Sibaya Community Trust, Vivian Reddy, said: “We are delighted to be in a position to offer the home assistance with upgrading some of their facilities as well as purchase resources which are necessary for accommodating the young children visiting there. For more than eight decades, the Mercury Hibberdene Children’s Holiday Home has provided sanctuary and adventures for children from disadvantaged backgrounds and we would like to see the home continuing to do so for many years to come.”
The Hibberdene Children’s Holiday Home is a registered Non-Profit, Public Benefit Organisation with the sole mandate to provide holidays for under privileged and vulnerable children from child-headed households, paediatric hospices, children’s homes and disadvantaged schools. They have been in operation for over 80 years and host over 1000 children annually.
Facilities include a swimming pool with a water slide and splash pool, an obstacle course, climbing frames and swings, trampolines, volley ball, netball, a soccer field, a large cinema screen for screening movies, a sunroom, braai area and picnic area. For many of the children visiting the home, these facilities and activities are a whole new experience. The children receive three nutritious meals daily and enjoy supervised workshops.
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Chairman of Sibaya and Trustee of the Sibaya Community Trust, Vivian Reddy, Yogas Nair editor of the Mercury and Tristan Kaatze; Sibaya Casino Director.
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Chairman of Sibaya and Trustee of the Sibaya Community Trust, Vivian Reddy, Yogas Nair editor of the Mercury, Tristan Kaatze; Sibaya Casino Director and Kudzai Mqingwana, Manager of the Sibaya Community Trust.
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