Just One Child bio picture
  • Welcome to Just One Child!

    Traditional families are fast disappearing off the face of the African Continent through war, poverty and disease. As concerned citizens, we are called to intervene at this time to provide comfort and care to those who survive this onslaught.

    Each person has a unique purpose, specific gifts and talents, and great potential as such their lives are as precious and meaningful to us as is any other who share our world. At Just One Child we start with the children; those abandoned by parents, grandparents, and society.

    Our aim is to create blended family units blind to race, gender, colour, creed or health status. Through these families children are loved, nurtured, supported and cared for in a normal environment. Our children are normalized, not institutionalised.

How it all started . . .

Just One Child from Gavin Blok on Vimeo.

Mpho’s Operation . . .

Mpho

We are delighted to advise that Mpho was operated on by a team of doctors and two specialists, one of whom flew to South Africa from London. The rest of the team consisted of another doctor, two anethetists and a special technician. During the operation, which took place at Linksfield clinic and which lasted for over four hours, the specialists fitted two implants into his skull immediately behind where his ears are, These implants will now be left for six months, and then if all goes well, will be exposed under anesthetic so that hearing aids can be attached which will then apparently give him excellent hearing ability. The entire operation was done free of charge by everyone concerned. We cannot believe the generosity of all the doctors, hospital etc and we are extremely grateful that little Mpho has been given this opportunity.