Home of hope

A Cape Town-based registered NPO and Child and Youth Care Centre (CYCC) that has spent 20 years providing homes, education, and therapeutic care for abused, abandoned, and neglected children — with a particular specialist focus on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD): permanent brain damage caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. FASD affects 290 per 1,000 live births in some Western Cape communities — among the highest rates in the world, concentrated in low-income agricultural communities where high alcohol consumption intersects with poverty, limited ante-natal care, and GBV. Home of Hope currently cares for 31 children in its Child and Youth Care Centre; provides education to 37 neurodiverse children through its Amathemba School (designed for children with learning and developmental differences); and runs the Anselm Farm and Living Life Project as additional programmes. Children in Home of Hope's care are typically those removed from environments of abuse, neglect, or abandonment — many have experienced domestic violence, maternal incapacity due to substance dependence, or complete family breakdown. The organisation's Christian ethos ("we are Christ-centred, we are family-focused, we exist for children") underpins a model of long-term, stable, therapeutic care. While Home of Hope does not provide direct GBV services to adult survivors, it is a critical endpoint for children who have been rescued from abusive or neglectful situations in the Cape Town area. For child protection emergencies: Childline 116 (toll-free, 24/7) / Child Protection Hotline 076 900 7151 / GBV Command Centre 0800 428 428.