Our Team

Our House Parents

Each of our homes are independently run with long-term, committed House Parents and House Parent Assistants. Our vetting and training process is lengthy and each House Parent undergoes background checks, police clearances, and rigorous ongoing training each month to learn best practices in parenting children who have experienced loss, trauma, and/or abandonment. Our House Parents view their role as a significant calling, and they are passionate about focusing their lives to love hurting children and walk a slow and steady road toward healing, trust building, and attachment.

Our Operations Team

We have dedicated teams in Johannesburg and Cape Town that oversee the operational side of providing a family to each child in our care. This includes advocating for children’s rights at local and government levels, the maintenance of our Family homes, supporting our full-time House Parents and assistants, supervising the medical and prescription needs of our children, and building relationships within the local school, church, medical, and business communities to meet the needs of our children with the highest level of care.

Social workers, therapists, homework tutors, and dedicated volunteers work together to advocate for and offer our children an extended support system emotionally, academically, and relationally. To provide our children with a typical home environment, we are strategic in making long-term relationships with the volunteers and support staff. This ensures that there is not a revolving door of people coming through our children’s lives. We value long-term relationships for our children as we seek to give them love, hope, and dignity.

Our Transport Team

Within each Family Home, our school-aged children are placed in academic environments that will empower them to reach their full potential. Based on unique needs, members from one Acres of Love Family might attend up to six different schools. Many of our children have medical and special needs that require ongoing clinic, hospital, specialist, or private practice appointments throughout the larger region.

We also encourage and support extra-curricular sports, hobbies, and activities for our children to pursue their dreams and interests. Tackling the scheduling and transport for children in all of our Family Homes requires an entire transport team. Using large family vans, our transport team works hard to provide for the logistical challenges to smoothly get our children from home to school, choir or rugby practice, clinic appointments, and home again. Our transport drivers have become like uncles to our children and are often found helping out around the homes as well! They provide one more layer of extended family relationships and consistency for our children.