Our care is divided into two broad categories:

• The first is focused on providing a loving and caring home for orphans, disabled, abused and HIV/AIDS infected/affected children, which is known as Amadea Safe House.

• The second part of Rina’s work involves reaching out to destitute rural and local communities though provision of essential needs and people development projects.

More About Amadea Safe House

Children are cared for until the juvenile court’s investigation is complete, and in many cases they stay longer because there’s no space in orphanages. With limited capacity in orphanages, there is a continued increase in the demand for more space at Amadea.

Rina believes that children need to be nurtured to build their creative, intellectual and physical growth. Yet under her care they receive much more than this. Amadea provides a loving home. Some of the children has been with the Malan’s for more than 19 years.

Rina also acts as a mentor for  Hiv/AIDS home based care organizations to which she supplies food and an educational programs, and she assists with feeding schemes in the surrounding areas.

She says: “Fourteen days after I opened my home I had fourteen children in my care. And I haven’t looked back. Words cannot describe the satisfaction that we have derived from seeing little broken human beings become whole again.”

Amadea provided a place of safety and love for approximately 330 children over the past 19 years. Currently our children’s ages range between toddlers and 23 years.

The heart of Amadea Safe House is to provide a home where not only the physical but also the spiritual and emotional needs of these children are met by the Rina and Philip.
New admissions: children between the age of 0 and 5 years. Also special needs children.

More About Our Skills Development

Amadea has a wide variety of Skills Development Projects that they undertake, depending on demand and donations at least 4 times a year these training sessions take place.

Rina herself has trained more than 1500 woman since she started. Some of these woman who are part of these projects, then take the skills they learn and start their own businesses from home to generate an income.

Some of the skills that are taught by Amadea are as follows:

• Baking
• Cooking
• Knitting
• Crochet Work
• Woodwork
• Mosaic
• Beading
• Welding
• Soap making
• Catering

Rina has changed a lot of lives for the better with these Projects, giving woman the necessary skills to not only survive but to lead a successful life.