James House Care Centre
Child rights and protection focused; specifically focused on child poverty, abuse, neglect, and development in the immediate environments of home, school, and community. 1. **Education and Development** — creating and facilitating spaces for children to be children; supporting school progress and developing potential (after-school, early childhood, skills development) 2. **Community Engagement** — working with community groups, networks, and stakeholders to influence attitudes, behaviours, and practices around child safety and GBV prevention 3. **Families Support** — supporting parents/guardians to strengthen the family and improve household living conditions; family preservation; addressing the social drivers of child abuse **GBV relevance:** Explicitly child rights and child protection focused. Child abuse — including sexual abuse and children living in homes where GBV is perpetrated — sits at the centre of James House's mandate. Family support and community engagement programmes directly address the violence and neglect cycle. The Matzikama area (including Vredendal) is a rural, high-GBV context for children and women — James House's rural presence there is significant. **is_24hr:** Not a crisis service — office hours. Child abuse emergency: Childline 116 (toll-free, 24/7) / National Centre for Child Protection 076 900 7151 (24/7) / GBV Command Centre 0800 428 428.
Contact & Location
- 6 Riverside Terace, Houtbay, Cape Town 7806
Opening Hours
Opening hours not available. Contact the organisation directly.
About
Founded in 1986 in Hout Bay — initially as a simple feeding project for the poorest and most vulnerable children in the area, named after the first child the organisation ever helped: a boy named James. Almost four decades later, James House delivers child rights and protection programmes across two distinct geographies: the urban township communities of Hout Bay (Cape Town) and the rural communities of Matzikama, some 300 km north of Cape Town, including the Vredendal area — one of the most under-resourced regions of the Western Cape. The organisation frames its work around three interconnected programmes: Education and Development (safe spaces for children to learn and grow); Community Engagement (shifting attitudes, behaviours, and community practices around child safety and GBV prevention); and Family Support (strengthening families and improving household conditions to reduce the risk of abuse and neglect). For children living in homes where GBV is occurring, and for the women in those homes, James House's family support and community work creates protective structures and referral pathways. The organisation is funded by Anglo American, Pick n Pay, Old Mutual, the WC Government, and others. Child abuse emergency: Childline 116 (toll-free, 24/7).
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