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IMPILO: CHILD PROTECTION AND ADOPTION SERVICES

We opened the doors to our first baby on 1st November 2003 after two years of planning and preparing. Sue Krawitz, our current Director and a colleague saw the need for babies and pre-school children who required temporary safe care while awaiting placement in permanent families. Since 2003 Impilo has become a child protection organisation with adoption accreditation (2011 - National and International). We continue to provide care for 12 children on our premises. In 2012 we changed our name to IMPILO CHILD PROTECTION & ADOPTION SERVICES which represents the work we do more clearly.

Over 2000 children and families have benefitted from our services.

Mission Statement:

To care for and protect orphaned and vulnerable children by providing a professional service guided by the underlying principle that the child’s best interests be served. We aim to strengthen, protect, preserve and build families in order to achieve our objective of providing children in our care with forever families. We aim to provide early intervention services to both parents and vulnerable children and strive to empower mothers to care for their children within their families and communities.

Their Vision

To place children in forever families.

Objectives:

To provide a short term place of safety for the protection and care of orphaned and vulnerable children under the age of three years.
To provide personalised care for such children by meeting their physical, medical, psychological and emotional needs.
To establish and secure the legal status of each child in terms of the Children’s Act 38 of 2005 as amended.
To endeavour to assist biological families to care for their children in so far as is possible, and where not possible, to find suitable alternative care.
To act as quickly as possible in order to serve the best interests of each child.
To provide child protection services to children in its care.
To provide adoption services national and inter-nationally.
To raise awareness in South African communities of the need for South African children to have permanent families.
In all its actions to strive to serve the best interests of each child placed in its care.
What does Impilo Mean?

It is the Zulu word meaning "Life"