Rustenburg-The owner of Ikitseng home based care at Lethabong outside Rustenburg is heaving a sigh of relief after the German Development Bank offered to built a centre for orphans and vulnerable children in the area.

Deborah Mosito said she established a small centre  at Lethabong to address the plight of orphans, vulnerable children including young people in 2004.

“I was prompted by passion and the love for children to open a centre like this one. I did not do it for myself. It is for the community that is why I am calling on all community members to support us without naming any price,” Mosito said, adding that the visit by German delegation to the centre has added much relief to the community of Lethabong which has a high number of child pregnancies, many of which are affected by HIV/aids pandemic. German Development Bank Director Busso Von Alvensleben said Lethabong village is one of the beneficiaries of community care centres to be built in the North West Province in the next financial year.

“We have, since 1994 focused on HIV/Aids prevention programmes. This funding is generated from the German tax payers for these programmes,” Von Alvensleben said during his visit to Lethabong on Thursday.

Meanwhile North West MEC  for Social Development Collen Maine said North West has become the third province after Limpopo and Kwa Zulu Natal to benefit from the German Development Bank initiative.

Maine said the German Development Bank will provide funding to the tune of R35 million for the establishment of  six modern type community care centres in all district municipalities in the province.

The centres, Maine said they will provides skills development services, computer rooms, library, counseling rooms and extension office for government integrated services.

“These projects will go a long way in contributing towards the agenda of developing social infrastructure of decent standard for services to those in need of care and protection,” Maine said.-TDN

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