With the high crime rates, the car crashes, natural occurances of brain damage that take place it’s a wonder that I hadn’t heard of headway sooner.
I am in awe of the work they do, it’s the sort of work that until you are in need of their assistance you wont even know they exist. But they do.
From their website:
Headway Gauteng, was started in 1995 and is a fully registered welfare organisation dedicated to offering various support programme’s to survivors of Acquired Brain Injury, including Traumatic Brain Injury.
Headway presently has two branches – our main branch in Hyde Park and our outreach branch (Khomelela) in Alexandra. Our aim is to eventually have satellite groups in all the main centres, as soon as funding permits. With no assistance from the government, all our funding initiatives are from private or corporate donations instigated from within our small organisation.
As I have mentioned, it is services like these that you never realise are there until you really need them. I have had my share of experience with brain damaged relatives/friends and I really wish that we had known about Headway.
If you have a vested interested in the service they provide I suggest heading over to Headway Gauteng and Headway KZN and contacting them. Ask if you can help, if they need anything or if you can provide support of any kind. I am sure that a little support will go a very long way.
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