ROQUE supports Mama Lumka
09-Dec-2011Thank you for purchasing The ROQUE Model.
You will be pleased to note that a portion of the ROQUE fee has been donated to the Nceduluntu Sanctuary Trust. In the spirit of How ROQUE Helps others, we call this project a deserving Community Aid Program.
The following is an extract from the website of Mama Lumka - The Wheelbarrow Siant:
In December 1995, ‘Mama’ Lumka, unemployed and caring for her own adult disabled son, realised how many other disabled children were left uncared for all day while their parents went out to work. She painted a simple sign on a piece of cardboard offering crèche facilities for children under 6 years of age. That was the start of the Nceduluntu Educare Centre - Nceduluntu means Help for the People.
Without any transport, she would collect the disabled children in a wheelbarrow fitted with foam cushions to soften the ride. She became known as ‘The Wheelbarrow Saint’.
By 2001 she was providing residential care in her home for 16 disabled and able bodied children with AIDS or AIDS orphans. All of them had nowhere else to go. In their community there were no facilities for vulnerable children.
In 2002 a group of business people identified Mama Lumka’s amazing efforts and the Nceduluntu Sanctuary Trust was established. This led to the current initiative which has seen the Trust acquire land on which foster homes could be built each accommodating 6 children with 2 caregivers and a house mother.
For more about the Mama Lumka story please go to: http://www.mamalumka.org.au/Mamas-Story
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