Project 01-2025 Co-funding project Dr. Jung - Wulkow Foundation supports childrens home in South Africa with €2,500.00

Dr. Hubert Jung and Dieter & Bettina Wulkow handled over our project donation to Seloma Gouws

Support for the Rising Eagles/Safe Haven home for abused and needy children in Struisbaai, South Africa

The two co-sponsors, Dr. Hubert Jung/Anita Brebeck and the board members of the Dieter & Bettina Wulkow Foundation recently went to the poor region around Cape Agulhas-Struisbaai-South Africa.

The home, which currently houses 13 abused, mistreated and orphaned children, has been looking after the children, most of whom are between 4 and 14 years old, with its director, Seloma Gouws, and volunteers for more than 15 years.

Behind all the individual children there are difficult fates that have traumatized their cause and the children through physical abuse, rape and abandonment.

Many families or single parents in this region are impoverished, have no or only seasonal work, escape their frustration through alcohol and drugs and abuse their wives or their children under protection, who then often flee and live alone on the streets. The famine is great.

The few social workers try their best. Children who are picked up are then handed over to the few childrens homes scattered around the country with a court order. However, the state administration only contributes to the costs with a starvation allowance. Seloma Bouws founded and runs one of these childrens homes, the Rinsg Eagles Home/Safe Haven, and looks after the children on a one-day basis. Some stay with her for weeks, months or even years, until they come of age.

The children live there and have a common room for girls and one for boys where they can sleep and be alone. They eat together like in a larger family and receive care and motivation to learn from the volunteer careers. They feel every day that they are cared for and that they are getting their childhood back and experiencing a lot of love. Living together is characterized by great harmony. For lessons, the children are driven to the school bus or to school in their own minibus. They also come into contact with Christian values ??and go to church regularly.

The Dieter & Bettina Wulkow Foundation has supported Selomas home and work several times in the past (project 02/2018 roof structure and fencing for a new extension). The home is financed exclusively by incoming donations. 

Dr. Hubert Jung, our long-time foundation companion with Ms. Anita Brebeck, provided a large financial sum with the desire to use it for a community project for childrens aid in South Africa through our foundation. With our increase to a total of €2,500, we were able to hand over our funding to Seloma and the children we took in on February 14, 2025.

We are promoting long-term, psychological trauma treatment for currently 6 girls and boys.

In addition to the constitutional stability of the abused children, Seloma would like to start a vegetable patch garden project in which the children, under supervision, are responsible for planting the seedlings and caring for them until they are harvested.

Dr. Jung, Ms. Brebeck and we, Dieter and Bettina Wulkow, were able to find out more about the effectiveness of our support locally and we are pleased that this project will sustainably improve the situation of children in this region, even if only on a smaller scale. The children who leave are also great role models for children in their immediate surroundings and have a positive effect on their social behavior and willingness to learn. Seloma has so far supported 99 children in her home on their way to better life chances. 

An expanded, comprehensive project description can be found in the homepage section New and completed projects 01/2025.

Struisbaai, Western Cape, South Africa 02/14/2024

Photos: own, Dieter & Bettina Wulkow Foundation