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Stress - Driver or Destroyer
by James Sleigh
We have dedicated March to being a month of wellbeing at Camphill. It is a time to reflect on ourselves, the wellbeing of our staff and, of course, our residents. As carers, as people that others depend on, it is vital that we are mindful of our own wellbeing and mental health.
One of the great challenges to our wellbeing is stress. It is a word that is frequently used lightly in our daily conversations, but it can be a constant erosion to our health and ultimately to our self-esteem and mental health. Over the last year, stress and burnout has become the greatest challenge for leadership and for organisations throughout the world.
For most people this last year has been filled with uncertainty - health insecurity, job insecurity, an increase in loneliness and disconnection - caused by lockdown and new working and socialising conditions. We have never in our history felt so out of control. These triggers - feeling out of control, uncertainty, insecurity, and disconnection - are key stress triggers.
While short bursts of stress can be beneficial - to achieve goals, to be energised by adrenaline injected into our systems - protracted stress has a negative impact on our physical and mental health.
Stress over a protracted period limits the blood flow to the organs, which decreases their functionality. This in turn can reduce energy production, result in poor digestion and affect our immune system. When under stress our bodies produce cortisol (stress hormone), which is designed to increase the glucose in the blood stream (for fight or flight responses). Increased production of cortisol can lead to weight gain, loss of energy, high blood pressure and diabetes. Prolonged stress can lead to burn out, where our self-esteem becomes affected. We can become emotionally volatile and can experience fatigue, a loss of creativity and innovative ideas.
Richard Sutton, in his book Stressproof, speaks of 4 strategies we can use to help us work with stress.
Step 1 - Create a positive mindset. Try to reframe how we see our situation - try to find advantages and positives in the challenges and chaos we face.
Step 2 - When caring for and connecting with others, our bodies release oxytocin in the body. This is effectively the anti-venom to the stress hormone and helps buffer us against stress. In sharing our vulnerability and connecting we build up a support structure, but also biologically reduce our stress hormone production.
Step 3 - Control our stress levels by taking time out from the constant bombardment of stress. Turn off your phone, take some down time, focus on breathing, try yoga, cold water swimming, meditating. These breaks from continuous stress help us to regain our energy and create a biological balance in our bodies.
Step 4 - Lifestyle - Exercise, eat healthily, do something creative that you enjoy. We can include supplements in our diet, like adaptogens that can help boost ourselves against stress.
Very often when we are battling with stress, we do not feel valued, trusted and supported. In showing someone that you value, trust and support them, you can assist them to regain control in their lives.
As we enter another wave of uncertainty, let's be mindful of those around us and see how we can support each other through this period. Historically humans have survived and thrived as a result of sharing resources and protecting their groups. Now is a very good time to show our humanity to those who could benefit from our support.
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Setting goals
by Carine Human
Our Health and Wellbeing team consists of our manager (retired) Sr Pikkie, our own Sr Sheryl, Nina our occupational therapist, Francinah our junior social worker and myself (residential social worker). As a team we are very much in the business of goal-setting for ourselves and for our residents. We adhere to the Department of Health and the Department of Social Development guidelines in terms of individual development plans for each of our residents. This is a holistic plan looking at the health, psychosocial, developmental and all- round wellbeing of each resident and has to be reviewed annually.
We see it as one of the most important components on their path to success. Each resident has their individual story and hopes, in self-actualising their unique abilities. Goal-setting is the primary tool for anyone wanting to reach their full potential. We aim to create a structured list of goals to provide our residents with an anticipated future outcome. It is often hard for people to stay motivated without a set goal, plan or target pointing to where they want to be in the future.
We all sometimes make the mistake of setting ourselves overwhelming goals and getting frustrated about the lack of progress towards them. We need to use goal-setting in our work together with our residents - from initial consultation, follow-up sessions and continuous evaluation, together with our colleagues from group homes and enterprises. This allows residents to prioritise their changes and start to see the results they are hoping to achieve. It truly is a collaborative effort, showing our residents that we all care about their progress and future successes and achievements. Goals can include anything from learning to read words, or time, writing your own name, tying a shoe lace, learning a specific skill, and is mostly something which will assist our residents in being more independent and equipped to lead a fulfilling adult life within the Camphill environment.
Benefits of goal-setting include:
- Direction and focus
- A sense of personal satisfaction and increased performance
- Assists in keeping motivation to achieve, despite disappointments
- Allows prioritising change
- Provides a realistic timeline for goal accomplishment
- Offers a better understanding of expectations
- Supports in overcoming feelings of anxiety and being overwhelmed
- Helps to give clarity to decision making and self confidence, increasing pride and satisfaction
- Provides a lasting purpose to achieve an overall healthier life, eliminating attitudes that hold you back and cause unhappiness.
No matter how big or small, everyone enjoys achievement. Let’s not forget to set goals, work hard, get up when we fall, stay motivated, achieve and celebrate each very little and very big step you make!
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What is “Wellness”?
by Janine Strumpher
This month our marketing team has chosen “wellness” as our topic of the month. Coming from a financial background, I suggested looking at organisational wellness. My thought was, if we do not look after our plusses and minuses we cannot survive, especially as a non-profit company.
I came across this meaningful quote and it really got me thinking about “wellness”. Wellness starts with meaning and purpose. We firstly have to establish our individual meaning and purpose as our foundation of being. I’m almost wanting to swing the quote around, and say once you have established meaning and purpose the rest will fall into place. This is not easy, sometimes we will be convinced it is one thing and we reach it only to find out, maybe not quite. The secret is then to use that knowledge to move to the next step till you get to your aha moment.
Or you can outgrow your meaning and purpose, or at any time it can change. This is a very personal process and only you can establish when you have reached that place in yourself where your meaning and purpose becomes clear. Only then can you set goals to become the well individual who is happy, healthy, and whole. Your reason to get up, go for a run, go to work with a smile on your face, find your spiritual feed and live a contented life.
I recently had the privilege of visiting an old age home and there were two ladies in their eighties. One was sitting at a table, reading the Huisgenoot and complaining about her age, aches and pains and how bad the world has become. The other had a little side sewing business, where she earns extra money to buy special things, not in her budget, for herself and even her disheartened friend. She was full of smiles, happily showed me her latest “job”, cracking jokes with a naughty twinkle in her eye. She has purpose.
The plusses, minuses and rest will be perks accomplished by how you live your life.
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Camphill Jojoba harvest challenge
by Lise Muller
It’s jojoba harvest time again and traditionally the whole village gets involved each year, picking the beans that produce our fabulous jojoba oil. A challenge at Camphill is taken very seriously and when the farm put up some prize money for the houses that picked the most jojoba beans the game was on!!
Well done to the fabulous team at Pine Close who came in first place, and Rooikrans for coming in second place. Handing over the prizes today was wonderful. The residents and proud house-mothers were so excited to receive their gifts. Thank-you to everyone that got involved and put in so much effort to pick our wonderful jojoba beans!
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Wellness Warehouse Kloof pays Camphill Village a visit
by Lise Muller
The team from Wellness Warehouse Kloof feel that it is important for them to visit their suppliers in person so that they are armed with first-hand knowledge when it comes to talking about the products that they are selling in their store.
We were thrilled to have this team pay us a visit on Friday 19th March. They stepped out into the fields with our farm manager Antonius to pick carrots and beetroot, did a cheese tasting at the dairy, stopped to talk with the calves, and did a tour of the bakery and cosmetics enterprises.
Thank you Wellness Warehouse for taking the time to understand our unique culture and the amazing work we do here, and for your loyal support of Camphill products. It was an honour for us to host your visit.
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GEA on Camphill
by Janine Strumpher
In the last two newsletters we travelled through our upgraded dairy. You have met our donor partners Rays of Hope and we have explained GEA’s involvement in our Dairy Rays 1 upgrade. Here is a lovely article written by GEA’s team on Camphill Village Dairy and their involvement.
https://www.gea.com/en/customer-cases/organic-dairy-reaches-for-its-boutique-dreams.jsp
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My body, my life
by Max
My body is where I live everyday so I should take care of it ...
Everyone wants to have a healthy lifestyle, maintain energy or good mood and be in good shape, but we struggle to put gym or exercising sessions on the to- do list. It's sad because we should look at the gym as investment in ourself, our body and our energy. We find ourselves sitting on the couch scrolling on our phone, not exactly knowing which channel to watch on TV, planning our next day (no gym or exercising on the list whatsoever) and by that time your body is going against your mind, saying let's be lazy together.
For this reason, me and my team have become motivated to take a control of our bodies before they take over! We have set goals and work out in our new gym, on the path to achieving these.
Of course without motivation we can't reach out or start. Whether you are trying to lose weight, stay fit or boost your energy, the time to start is now.
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Why regenerative?
by Lise Muller
HEALTHY SOIL: Regenerative practices restore the damage we have done to our soil, getting the carbon, water and mineral cycles working again. Soil regeneration, simply put, is creating new soil and rejuvenating “used” soil with the aim to minimize the loss of topsoil, retaining more carbon, boost biodiversity and maintain a healthy water and nutrient cycle.
Soil and water equals life, and over the ages plants have evolved to thrive without the use of harmful fertilizers or pesticides. All the needed nutrients are present in the soil, and if the organic carbon-rich system is healthy the plants deliver the nutrients to the plants and the plants create their own protective shields around their roots by feeding the right bacteria and fungi to the root system.
HEALTHY PEOPLE: Healthy soils produce nutrient dense foods which contain vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates, lean protein, and healthy fats. These foods are a very necessary part of all of our diets to ensure that we maintain healthy bodies and immune systems.
HEALTHY PRODUCE: Camphill Village practices regenerative farming on a daily basis and our focus is on protecting our natural resources our land and animals. No artificial chemicals, such as herbicides or pesticides or manufactured fertilizer, are used, ensuring that all the needed nutrients are present in the soil to create a dynamic, healthy environment that follows a natural, healthy cycle. The results can be seen in the wonderful veggies that are produced on our farm, which are used daily in every meal that is served to our community. The result of eating food produced in this way is a community that has a high energy level, a good immune system and a love for working on the land.
The rewards are so worth it.
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Balancing Safety and Fun!
by Francinah Mahlomuza
To say that the COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives forcing us to adopt new ways of living that had an impact on our wellness would be an understatement. This pandemic has changed our residents’ lives in many ways:
Residents not being able to go home to visit their families as frequently as they used to. The residents having to learn new ways of how to work, keeping in mind public health restrictions (which could be a big challenge for some of us to keep up with). Many of our residents still feel overwhelmed by the constant, sometimes shifting and conflicting flow of information around the virus and the pandemic. And residents not being able to conduct our monthly market for a year now, having to cancel talent shows, concerts and other events that require the participation of people from outside the village.
Despite these concerns there is still good news, regarding vaccine rollout, the village not having any COVID-19 infections at the moment, and our country being moved down to level 1 lockdown.
Residents and stay-in employees decided to try to “balance safety with fun”, keeping in mind Covid necessary precautions for the safety of our residents. During this time, Danie (our dairy manager) and his team worked to maintain our swimming pool. We send a BIG thanks to Danie and his team.
We have been enjoying safe swimming sessions to give everyone a much-needed mental reset from stressing about the world’s current situation. Each house has a scheduled swimming time, and It has been such fun, allowing the residents to feel refreshed and happy.
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Healthy mind, healthy body
by Delmaine Willemnse
Most of us have heard or read about this and some people share it as friendly advice. It has a simple but deep meaning. For a healthy mind, healthy body, we know we should be both physically and mentally healthy and fit. But most of us seem to be ignoring this simple mantra these days, including me.
Mental health is imperative for physical health. If the mind is unsullied, it will help in maintaining physical well-being and health. This being said, I personally am lacking when it comes to maintaining my health. It is the simple things we need to follow like these below:
- Timely Meals – Take your meals on time, have three meals a day, and avoid junk and fried food. The most important meal is breakfast! Do NOT skip.
- Fruits and Vegetables – For a healthy mind, healthy body, add fresh fruits and veggies to your diet. They are a great source of nutrition and help in keeping your appetite in balance.
- Exercise – Take time out from your busy schedule to exercise. Walk, jog, skip, do yoga for 30 minutes at least 5 days a week not just for a healthy body but also for a healthy mind.
- Stay Hydrated – Drink plenty of water to keep you hydrated, something most of us lack – including me.
- Sleep Tight – Get a minimum of seven hours sleep every night, so that you feel fresh and energized throughout the day.
- Take a Chill Pill – Take some time out for yourself. Take a break from your daily routine. Go for dinner, watch movies, and spend time with family and friends. You will feel physically and mentally relaxed and refreshed.
- Balanced Life – Try to have a balance between your personal and professional life and treat them as two different worlds.
- Do What You Love – Make time for your hobbies like gardening, music, reading, cooking. Our hobbies are therapeutic, give us mental peace and act as a stress-buster.
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Relational Wellbeing
by Carine Human
Ubuntu – I am, because you are ... As Carly Robb states: ‘Ubuntu is a concept meaning “I am because you are.” It embraces the idea that humans cannot exist in isolation. We depend on connection, community, and caring — simply, we cannot be without each other.
I am currently doing my PhD (Social Work) on the relational wellbeing of South African transnational families (i.e. families where a parent works abroad). I have found studying literature around the concept of relational wellbeing very remarkable, as it is as simple or as complex as one’s own unique experiences, abilities and personal challenges. And whether one is always aware of them, remains the unknown, yet we all find our experiences of relations and relational reality to be real, valid, true.
General definitions or understanding of relational wellbeing are:
‘Nurturing a constructive relationship with self and others.’
‘Sense of connection, belonging and involvement with other people and communities, and a well-developed support system.’
‘Being relational means living in relation to others in recognition of interconnectedness with others. It means, in our interactions with others, being engaged, centered, grounded, clear, generous, humble and kind. Each of these attributes has a “much more than meets the eye” quality.’
The above also speaks to empathy interaction, which is ‘relational contact that triggers empathy and oxytocin release, resulting in feelings of belonging and wellbeing’.
People enjoy relational well-being if they benefit from caring and sensitive relationships that meet the needs for empathy, understanding and solidarity, and promote identity, dignity, self-respect, self-esteem and acceptance. Relational well-being is built through positive, intimate, close interpersonal relations, where people pay caring attention to one another and, therefore, know what is happening in the life of the other and understand how the other feels about it.
Relationships flourish when there are elements such as commitment, humour, effective stress and conflict management, clear rules and boundaries, respectful interaction, warmth and appreciation. Well-being is seen as social or collective in that it goes beyond the individual. Thus, relationships form a central focus as both the means through which psychological and material goods are distributed.
From the above, which potentially is a drop in the ocean around the theories of relational wellbeing; it is evident that interactions and connectedness between individuals and groups, including professional relationships in the workplace and personal relationships with family and friends are what it is all about. In our next newsletter we’ll explore how relational wellbeing can be created, managed and maintained. How we can create, nurture and benefit from Ubuntu.
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by Lise Muller
Kin Culture is an NGO that is doing amazing work helping to find foster homes for vulnerable children. They have an online shop as part of their fundraising efforts and are now buying Camphill products to include on their list.
Agnes Barnard, CEO of Kin Culture tells us why we’re a good match. “Not only is Camphill a wonderful source with excellent products but it is also fulfilling an essential role in society. We are honoured to present our customers with their products, thus supporting and collaborating with another NGO, which we believe showcases the power of communities coming together.”
The 2018 Child Gauge report indicated that there were 2.8 million orphans in South Africa. This includes children without a living biological mother, father or both parents, and is equivalent to 14% of all children in the country. While many of these children go on to live with relatives (kinship care), others get placed into institutions or get stuck in the alternative care system. The need for families - who are willing, resourced and equipped - to take care of and raise these children is urgent. This is where Kin Culture and their incredible network of Kin families play such an important role, opening their homes and hearts to children in need.
Kin Culture strives towards financial sustainability, although acknowledging that external funding still forms an important part of being operational. The long-term goal is that internally generated funds will outweigh the external funding sources. The vision to achieve this is to build businesses to generate such income.
The first of these businesses was selling fresh blueberries in season, which they have done over the past four years through an online form. This has now expanded to selling other quality products and so the collaboration between Kin Culture and Camphill Village was launched. “We are both heart-based organisations and it is a privilege that our products will assist in some small way with empowering vulnerable children.”, says Agnes.
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 A little background about Viwe
by Viwe Dzebe Dzebe
The first time I heard about Camphill I was a student looking for a place to complete my experiential training, as it was required to complete my studies in Agricultural Management. A friend of mine told me about Camphill, I looked them up, applied and lucky enough I was accepted.
Back then I did not know anyone at Camphill, and it was going to be my first time ever starting a new place without family or friends. The lonely feeling did not last long for me because the Camphill people were all so welcoming and friendly, especially the residents.
When I joined the Camphill farm I only had theoretical knowledge of how things are done or work on a farm setting. Thanks to the Camphill family I have learned, developed and improved skills such as soil preparation, growing vegetables, rearing livestock, animal handling, working tractors and implements. I have also learnt how to be a great team player; with the residents I have learned patience and improved my problem/ conflict solving skills.
After a wonderful year of in-service training at Camphill I went back to finish my studies in Agriculture Management and now I am a qualified farm manager. After completing my studies and with the time I spent in Camphill during my practical year I felt attached to Camphill and so I contacted them. I am now working at Camphill as farm assistant. Thank you Camphill family for giving me the platform to grow and develop.
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Wellness in the workplace
by Viwe
Wellness is an act of practicing healthy habits on daily basis to attain better physical and mental health. Employees spend most of their time in workplace, which is why I believe it is important to create a work atmosphere that supports the productivity, wellbeing and happiness of employees. One way to achieve this may be to implement a wellness program, which is one of the proactive steps employers can take to reduce absenteeism. as well as boost the overall productivity.
Wellness may include:
Social connectedness
Connecting with friends or loved ones is a great way to improve your physical and mental health. At Camphill before the pandemic we used to host a market on the first Sunday of each month where people could come with their loved ones to enjoy the market. This was beneficial to both our staff and residents, meeting new people, while enjoying the food and good music is a good way to relieve stress.
Health and safety
For health and safety, we have a medical nurse available 24/7 for in case of emergency and a doctor once in two weeks. We also provide safety such as boots, gloves and work suits.
Physical health
To improve physical health and fitness for both staff and residents at Camphill we have a well-equipped gym, and yoga and sports hour every Friday. We encourage people to part take in charity runs and motivate them to set health goals to improve their physical health.
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Intellectual Disability Awareness Month
by Francinah Mahlomuza
As one of the organizations working with adults living with intellectually disability, we feel honored and happy to have our clients being recognized and appreciated worldwide for being themselves. March is internationally recognized as Intellectual Disability Awareness Month. On declaration of this month in 1987, President Ronald Reagan called upon all citizens to provide the “encouragement and opportunities” necessary for persons with developmental disabilities to reach their full potential.
For centuries, persons with intellectual disabilities have been systemically excluded from social activities and denied platforms to develop through social interacting with peers outside the home environment for various factors. Such factors include stigma and discrimination related to intellectual disability, family/guardian’s lack of knowledge about the disability, feeling of guilt or embarrassment of being judged and misconceptions surrounding intellectual disability. These factors continue to cause harm in lives of persons with Intellectual disability, as opposed to being treated like human beings with special needs, deserving of inclusion, dignity, respect, and a high quality of life.
Many citizens in our country (except those who have had experience with people with ID) had less or no knowledge about this awareness. Therefore, the South African Federation for Mental Health decided to run a huge campaign in 2019 for Intellectual Disability Awareness Month in attempt to combat misconceptions surrounding intellectual disability, to show that not only do people with intellectual disabilities have the capacity to lead fulfilling lives, but also the ability to make meaningful contributions as responsible and productive members of society.
In addition, this awareness also aimed at demonstrating that despite being intellectually challenged, we are all human beings (“We are all pieces of the same puzzle”) deserving of dignity and opportunity; a chance to education, right to employment and to be part of the community instead of being institutionalized in places where they become invisible to the community, forgotten about, and robbed of their rights.
SAFMH (2019) emphasized the fact that “when placed in conducive conditions, people with intellectual disabilities cannot only survive, but thrive, to the benefit of not themselves and their own betterment, but also for the betterment and strengthening of society at large.”
It is therefore, up to us with understanding of intellectual disabilities to encourage others to take time to learn and self-educate on intellectual disabilities. In that process of learning and taking interest in intellectual disabilities we are likely develop awareness of the fact that persons with intellectual disabilities are able to live life in any ways they would love to, with our support. Being informed with proper knowledge would also help liberate them, providing them a sense of belonging, hope and dignity. This Awareness month does not only provide awareness to people without intellectual disabilities, but also to those living with intellectual disability to advocate for themselves and combat the stigma that has surrounded them.
Let us come together as one to put an end to this divide and aspire to become a more inclusive society.
To those interested in learning more about this topic, kindly click on below useful links:
- Introduction to Intellectual Disability - CLICK HERE
- Intellectual Disability: Definition, classification, causes and characteristics on @ResearchGate - CLICK HERE
- March is Intellectual Disability Month! - CLICK HERE
- March is Developmental Disability Awareness Month - CLICK HERE
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Village Life for Wellness
by Nina Oberzaucher
How do you do ‘wellness’? What is wellness? In mainstream media it has been the “It-word” since the 1980s influencing how we think about our own health, what we are told is healthy, what we are told is not healthy and what we should be doing for wellness to prevent illness. Are you confused yet? Well, each person is surely following their own path in wellness, taking what works and discarding what does not. So, in the spirit of learning and sharing with one another to inspire wellness, here is how we do wellness at Camphill.
At Camphill we are acutely aware of how the encouragement of the wellness in our residents has an impact on their health and wellbeing. We provide them with an opportunity to work, engage in a range of creative and physical activities and groups for self-development in an environment some might dream of living in. Inherently, these all involve the dimensions that contribute to wellness.
To begin with, one might start by describing Camphill’s environment. At Camphill, we find ourselves on a beautiful farm where it is hard to believe that we are relatively close to what people like to call civilized life. Recent mornings come with crisp, fresh air, the chirping of an abundance of birds due to the food and nesting places available in trees over 50 years old, telling stories of how our organization started. The sound of cows, an acorn popping out of its shell and rustling through the leaves to the ground - calm, serene, healing. It is a sensory delight for the soul who is seeking connection with nature. Our setting alone is one that encourages wellness, slowing down and focusing on what promotes health and wellbeing. At Camphill, it is not the only thing that encourages wellness.
Every Friday morning, our village spends an hour doing some physical activity, whether it is soccer, netball, walking, yoga or using our newly opened gym. We also have a pool where villagers can cool off on these last few stifling days before winter. Of course no one thing happens in isolation and these physical activities provide opportunity for socialization, heaps of fun and the opportunity to do sports as a team.
Team sports keep our villagers in shape while they are a great way to connect with people from different parts of the village. It also enhances self-image and improves endurance. Sports are also known to have a positive impact on emotional and mental health, leaving us with a great choice for practicing wellness to promote health and well-being.
We have a variety of groups available to our villagers that include card-making, sing and dance, knitting, sewing, bible study, drumming, art and therapeutic groups to support mental and emotional health. These groups promote creative expression, spirituality, social skills and coping with stress. They keep villagers meaningfully and purposefully engaged and continuously learning through their participation in each. Here, finding meaning and purpose in activities engaged in is the key to a healthy lifestyle.
Our drumming group, for example, is sought after by our villagers due to how they feel during and after a session. It promotes social skills, emotional expression and release, and fun. It has a positive effect on anxiety, grief, fatigue and depression. At Camphill we drum for wellness.
To some it may be hard to believe, but work can be a definite contributor to health and wellbeing. A happy workplace builds confidence, self-esteem and provides villagers with reward. It keeps villagers busy, challenges them, and gives them ways of developing themselves and enables them to find support.
The health benefits of working include greater physical and mental health than of someone who does not work. In our village everyone has the opportunity to work. Giving everyone meaningful and purposeful work to contribute to village life is another avenue for being and staying well, learning and growing individuals as part of our village. It gives a sense of pride, identity and personal achievement.
In everything we do every day, it is the choices we make and the planned action we take that will either contribute to our health and wellbeing or not. At Camphill, we recognize that the choice for participation in work, leisure and self-care activities that hold meaning and purpose for every villager is necessarily different, each having individual needs, wants and dreams that will contribute to their wellness. Wellness is finding meaning, balance and doing what you love, in your own unique way. The biggest challenge is to look within.
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Thank Yous
by Janine Strumpher
Thank you to all the loyal MySchool/MyVillage swipers who contribute monthly to Camphill as their beneficiary. Please note that Builders Warehouse is now also a partner.
Jenny – Clothing
Trevor and Rene – Office Desk, Cupboard, Bric Brac
A huge thank you for all the support, support financially, in kind and emotionally.
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Sponsor a Resident
by Janine Strumpher
We have embarked on a drive to find a sponsor for each resident who has no family or financial means. Without Camphill Village they would be on the streets where people with special needs are often victims of abuse and manipulation and at risk even within their own families and/or communities.
And without financial assistance we cannot continue providing this place of safety.
Living at Camphill Village West Coast gives people with intellectual disability the chance to live a full, creative and fulfilled life, to develop their abilities and contribute to their community. The life that we take for granted, is for many a gift. However we can only do this when financial support is found for the individuals.
If you can help, or know of Individuals or Companies we can approach please contact Janine Strumpher on 021 571 8600 or e-mail fundraiser@camphill.org.za
Take a break from your busy day and watch this beautiful slideshow about life at Camphill - https://youtu.be/B3BQ8PmMZuY
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How to Donate
by Janine Strumpher
Our PayPal account is now in operation; there are now three ways to donate cash to Camphill Village West Coast.
- We now have a Payfast account if you'd like to donate in ZAR - Click Here
- And a PayPal account for donations in USD or Euros - Click Here
- EFT – Camphill Village Standard Bank Malmesbury Acc: 082 399 204 Branch: 050507 Swift: SBZA ZA JJ
- Foreign donations can be made through a NPO in your country and a tax certificate can be issued, please contact Janine to discuss for more info.
NB! Your donation is TAX DEDUCTIBLE, we would like to thank everybody that supports Camphill, remember without your support we cannot continue the work we do. We provide a safe normal life for people living with intellectual disability.
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My School Card
Support Camphill Village with a MySchool MyVillage MyPlanet card.
Every time you shop at Woolworths, Engen, Flight Centre, Loot, Bidvest Waltons, Alltech Netstar and Power 24 a percentage of the amount goes to your MySchool beneficiaries.
If you don’t already have a card the application form is available on our website here. http://www.camphill.org.za/my-school-card
If you already have a card, update your profile to include Camphill Village West Coast as one of your beneficiaries. https://www.myschool.co.za/supporter/update/
You can have up to three beneficiaries per card, so can support us at the same time as your school or other favourite charity.
Thank you – every little bit makes a difference!
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