{"id":124,"date":"2013-09-09T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2013\/09\/09\/handing-over-of-beds-to-resthaven-old-age-home\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T18:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T18:25:36","slug":"handing-over-of-beds-to-resthaven-old-age-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/2013\/09\/09\/handing-over-of-beds-to-resthaven-old-age-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Handing over of beds to Resthaven Old Age Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Departments of Social Development and Correctional Services will  be handing over 13 refurbished beds to the Resthaven Old Age Home.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> Thursday, 8 August 2013<br \/><strong>Time:<\/strong> 10:00<br \/><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Resthaven Old Age Home, 16 Church Road, Kimberley<\/p>\n<p>The Keynote address will be delivered by the Head of the Department  of Social Development, Ms. Elizabeth Botes, while the Regional  Commissioner of Correctional Services, Ms. Moodley will also be in  attendance.\u00a0 All 48 residents of the Resthaven Old Age Home, as well as  30 of the Shining Stars Service Centre members, who resort under the  Resthaven Welfare Society, will attend.<\/p>\n<p>The need for these beds with railings, to accommodate frail older  people was originally identified during a visit by President Jacob Zuma  on 7 September 2012.\u00a0 The Department of Social Development, as the  custodians of older persons was tasked with this responsibility.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Social Development planned to buy the necessary  beds, but due to the involvement of Department Correctional Services a  saving was incurred, when they agreed to convert 13 redundant beds of  the Tswelopele Correctional Centre, in Kimberley.\u00a0 The Department of  Social Development took responsibility to purchase the material for the  conversion.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Social Development, through this partnership with  the Department of Correctional Services, is building on their commitment  to the bettering of the lives of the elderly involved at the Resthaven  Welfare Society.<\/p>\n<p>During the Presidential visit in September the Department handed over  the following items:\u00a0 48 three-quarter bed comforter sets; four  20-litre pots; two 2-litre pots, while the following infrastructural  needs were addressed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Geyser<\/li>\n<li>Valve<\/li>\n<li>Vacuum breaker<\/li>\n<li>Basin&#8217;s outside outlet<\/li>\n<li>Washers on taps x 5<\/li>\n<li>Toilet seats x 8<\/li>\n<li>leak in toilet cone rubber<\/li>\n<li>Locks on four distribution boxes<\/li>\n<li>Ramp at new wing<\/li>\n<li>Steel plate at back entrance <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Department of Social Development is subsidising them, as well as  paying the salary of the Manager.\u00a0 The Department also initiated a food  garden project in order to ensure food security; on this project the  Department partnered with the Office of the Premier, who installed the  irrigation system to reduce the initial set-up costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issued by: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nelmarie van Wyk, <br \/>Communication Officer<br \/>Department of Social Development<br \/>053 \u2013 874 9214\/079 875 0849<br \/> <a href=\"mailto:nelmarievanwyk@ncpg.gov.za\">nelmarievanwyk@ncpg.gov.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Departments of Social Development and Correctional Services will be handing over 13 refurbished beds to the Resthaven Old Age Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northerncape.gov.za\/otp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}