The Parent Centre provides positive parenting skills training and support services to parents in all areas, including many who live in distressed and disadvantaged communities.

 

In these areas our support often begins very early in pregnancy and sometimes continues until children have “all grown up and left home” (although some parents come back to us with parenting issues when their children are parents and so we can start all over again!).

Although our services are primarily based on providing training, counselling and other support services, we try as far as possible to give as much support as possible to disadvantaged and poor families.  This includes distributing educational toys and playthings for their children, most especially the following:

 

- Baby / children’s clothes (new or secondhand) e.g. track pants, vests, shirts etc. R30 average for an item

 

- Books and/or stories on tape which range in price but are around R75 each

 

- Music tapes and/or musical instruments of various natures between R40 and R100 each

 

- Educational toys, puzzles and games between R30 and R50

 

- Art materials – paper, crayons, pencil crayons, paints, pastels etc. from R10 to R25

 

If you have any second-hand products you want to get rid of, or if you would like to sponsor a family with any / all of the above, please let us know.

 

We can arrange to collect any goods from you. Simply contact us at The Parent Centre on Tel: (021) 762-0116; Fax: (021) 762-5160 or email: .