THE MCGREGOR FAMILY CENTRE, run under the auspices of the P.O.N.D.O. Village Children's Trust, was started by Eve Bryant in April 2001. The aim was and remains to provide support to vulnerable children and their families within the community. The Centre's goal is to reduce child abuse and neglect in the village and surrounding rural area, by empowering families to break the cycle of frustration, despair, alcoholism, domestic violence and apathy.

Since its inception, the McGregor Family Centre has gone from strength to strength, developing day care and after-care activities for younger children, youth programmes aimed at teaching life skills to young people, and adult education work projects including a highly successful sewing project. The Centre's Holiday Activity Week is open to all the children in the village, and has become a highlight of the year for many.

The MCGregor Family Centre cricket team, victorious again, and made up of children whose physical and psychological disabilities have prevented them from taking part in formal school sports.

The Centre has a growing team of dedicated and committed childcare workers, and the results they are getting speak for themselves. Children with learning and motor disabilities, children with no self-esteem as a result of coming from severely abusive backgrounds, children who are often underfed and underclothed, and left to fend for themselves while their parents are under the influence of alcohol, are slowy blossoming under the careful nurturing and tutelage of these young people.

"When a child looks into your eyes, he can see his own beauty in your reflection."
      - H. C. Lyon

The McGregor Family Centre is completely dependent on donated funds. The work they do in the community is beyond price. Please consider helping, either with time or financially.

For further details contact:
Eve Bryant
P.O. Box 306 McGregor
Tel: +27 (23) 625 1207