The uMephi Project is the children's division of the AFM Executive Welfare Council.
The AFM Welfare Council is one of South Africa's most successful and long-standing welfare organizations with a proud history.
It all started in 1938 when the first two orphans were left at the front door of Pastor Gerrie Wessels in Brixton. He took the initiative and the church started a Children's Home. And the rest, as they say, is history:
Today, at uMephi
Please follow the link's (by clicking the image) should you need info on the AFM of SA or Abba Specialist Adoption & Social Services:
The AFM Welfare Council is one of South Africa's most successful and long-standing welfare organizations with a proud history.
It all started in 1938 when the first two orphans were left at the front door of Pastor Gerrie Wessels in Brixton. He took the initiative and the church started a Children's Home. And the rest, as they say, is history:
- Registered children's home in 1938
- Registered National Welfare Organisation in 1945
- Changed children's home into cottage system and established Villa Lubet Children's Village, Lyndhurst, Johannesburg in 1975
- Register ABBA Adoptions as the legal Adoption Unit of AFM Executive Welfare Council in 1996
- All children in centralized children's village are moved into decentralized community-based homes, 1999 to 2006
Today, at uMephi
- 200 - Children are cared for in 22 Child & Youth Care Centers
- 229 - Abandoned babies and babies with special needs are cared for in 20 Child & Youth Care Centers for temporary safe care
- 43 - Babies & toddlers with special needs (brain damage and cerebral palsy) are cared for in 4 Homes for Special Needs Children
- 98 - Orphans are cared for in 16 Foster Homes/Foster Cluster Care
- Abba Specialist Adoption & Social Services, as the adoption division of the AFM Executive Welfare Council, finds adoptive/foster parents for many of the abandoned and orphaned babies in the care of uMephi.
Please follow the link's (by clicking the image) should you need info on the AFM of SA or Abba Specialist Adoption & Social Services: