NEW COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT OFFICER FOR BADISA ANNOUNCED

By: Vanessa Tedder

Congratulations to Anchelle Damon who was recently appointed as the new Community Development Officer for BADISA, one of the largest social development organisations in Africa.

By: Vanessa Tedder

Dozens of visitors to Stanford got a special and warm welcome on the Thursday prior to the Easter weekend. SAPS, the Stanford Community Police Forum (CPF), the Community in Blue (CIB) and Stanford Security Services all got together to hand out safety pamphlets to tourists as part of its Welcome to Stanford initiative. And just because we love tourists so much, visitors at the roadblock to an Easter egg each. There’s nothing like a little chocolate to put a smile on someone’s face and to make a visit to Stanford just that little bit sweeter!

Police were out in full force for the entire Easter weekend patrolling the whole area to ensure that all motorists and pedestrians kept to the laws, which paid off as it turned out to be a safe and peaceful Easter period.

BADISA’s mission is to implement and sustain programmes in the Eastern and Western Cape that provide social and residential care to the most vulnerable. BADISA is an NPO that relies on funding from government, churches and other organisations.

Aside from her duties on the CPF, Anchelle will now be further entrenching herself with Stanford’s most vulnerable residents. High on her new job profile is to assist in the fostering of children trapped in drug or domestic abusive homes and creating safe havens for them while also working in schools and training people to become safety parents for when the need arises.