Goodbye Becky

Sadly, we have received the resignation of one of our senior therapists, Rebecca Wang. We all know her as Becky, or even as Bex as we sometimes call her. She will be leaving us at the end of 2009 to join a private practice.

She will be sorely missed! Becky organized our training and was also the main drive behind the development of the Training Manuals, the training Protocol and the organisation of our Training store. At Thusanani Bex WAS Training. She organized it, did it and she improved it as she went along. She has built a strong relationship with leaders in the community who relied on her to supply the training for the ladies starting up Day Care Centres in the informal settlements and in the poorly resourced communities in and around Johannesburg. During 2009 there was a strong focus on Ekhuruleni and by the time she leaves us she would have trained more than 80 ladies involved in taking care of children in those communities.

Her passion for training and for improving the lives of the Orphaned and Vulnerable Children has also lead her to develop the training Thusanani gives to the Care Givers working in Children's Homes. In short here at Thusanani referred to as "HOMES TRAINING", Becky has been refining that course and has ensured that all the Thusanani therapists are skilled at delivering this training and ensuring that Care Givers daily looking after children who has to grow up in a Children's Home will receive the daily developmental stimulation they need to grow up to be contributing members of our society.

Becky is also mentor to the more junior therapists here at Thusanani. she guides, she teaches, she supports and most of all she leads by example. To Heleen as Manager of the Services she has been a sound board for ideas, a moral support and very often the stand in manager.

OH BOY WE WILL MISS HER!

Thank you Bex for all the years of slogging away and helping us make a difference!