About Us – Hope In Christ

ABOUT US

Giving Childhood Back to Children

The HIC Youth Care Facility is a registered Non-Profit organization, operating a child and youth care center with the goal of providing holistic and respectful home care to a small group of residents.

Our aim is to provide a warm, comfortable, safe and loving home for all our children, with the interaction of other organizations involved in the individual children’s needs.

Securing a brighter future for our children

Vision

Our vision is to break the cycle of abuse, neglect, HIV, and abandonment in the lives of children, through empowering these children with strong family values, structure and love and support. The result being that when a child from HIC (Hope in Christ) grows up and gets married and has children of his/her own, they will impart these same family structures and values and thereby bring down the statistics of abuse, neglect, HIV, and abandonment for future generations to come.

Mission

The Hope In Christ mission aims to promote the dignity and self-worth of all residents and we strive to give them an excellent quality of life as defined by the residents individually and as a group. To that end we aim to provide a Christian, safe, secure and loving environment to the residents, where they will be provided with adequate support, The Hope in Christ Mission is not just a care giving facility – it is their home and community.

Management of the centre

The Center has a management committee that is drawn up from various businessmen & woman of the Newcastle community. All our members are of Christian faith and contribute to the success of the Center with their Business skills, natural abilities & spiritual leadership.

Our financial operations are overseen by Louis Kruger (treasurer) and audited on an annual basis by registered auditors. Ness & associates

The organisation has been approved as a Public Benefits Organisation in terms of section 30 of the Income Tax act, (the Act) and the receipts and accruals are exempt from income tax in terms of section 10(1)(cN) of the Act. Donations by or to the public benefit organisation are exempt from donations tax in terms of section 56(1)(h) of the Act.

The Child and youth care center is situated at Kleindal farm plot number 15177, Ingogo. The farm is located just off the N11 national road, 18km from Newcastle and borders on the Ngogo River. Andrew Pienaar (son of the founder of the Hope in Christ mission Sarah Holland) and his wife Jo-Ann Pienaar are the managers on the site.