About Us
Our ethos
Sunfield Home Howick believes that people with intellectual impairments deserve to be provided for in a protected environment for life, where they are encouraged to extend their abilities and achieve a life of fulfillment.
We care for and develop people with intellectual impairments in a protected and stimulating home-from-home environment.
COMMITMENT
We are dedicated to improving ourselves, our activities and our facilities for the benefit of our residents and their improved welfare.
CARING
We are committed to unselfishly serving our residents and providing the highest level of care possible.
COMMUNITY
We will endeavour to maintain a unified family environment that supports our residents’ needs, where communication is effective and transparent, and builds a mutually respectful culture across Residents, Members, Staff and Board.
Our Residents
We have adult residents of all races living in our 5 houses and accept adults from 18 years onwards. We can accommodate a wide range of intellectual impairments and we place each individual according to their specific needs and abilities.
We offer extra care in our assisted living Combrinck House, where the staff to resident ratio is much higher than in other houses.
The Home has a full-time Occupational Therapist who plans and supervises all activities and the residents also enjoy normal leisure time.
We are committed to our multi-racial, loving and caring environment, which has made us a leading Home for intellectually impaired adults in South Africa.
Our People
We have a large complement of permanent staff at Sunfield Home. Our residents are well cared for by an experienced team of carers, supervised by House parents and their assistants.
Cliff Freeman
General Manager
Tania Darch
Occupational Therapist, Deputy GM
Sister Bev Wheeler
Resident Nurse
Lee Gafney
Grounds & Maintenance
Londi Mjwara
House Mom (Gregson & Sunbird)
Shana Reddy
House Mom (Combrinck House)
Prebashnie Reddy
House Mom (De Smidt & Sunflower)
Graham Bellis
Chef
Sponsors & Donors
As a non-profit organization we require the generosity of others to assist us in maintaining our financial stability.
Unfortunately, many of our residents outlive their primary caregivers and become dependent on our home as a safe haven in which to live out their remaining days.
We are a reliable and trustworthy recipient of donations, social responsibility funds and sponsorship opportunities, for individuals and companies.
Our Board
The Board of Directors is responsible for formulating and upholding principles and policies at our home. It comprises a group of dedicated parents and volunteers, who freely give of their time, expertise and services.
We value each one of them and are grateful to have their professionalism guiding us.
Adv. PJ Combrinck SC
Chairman
Rosemary Fraser
Vice-Chair
John Ade
Finance
Sue Grant
Resident & Staff Wellness
Dave Worrall
Capital Projects & Estate
Barbara Higgins
Secretary
Our History
Sunfield traces its roots back to the Magaliesburg Children’s Home for the intellectually impaired, which was established near Hartebeespoort Dam in August 1953.
In 1955 a group of parents purchased the 22 ha Greendale farm just to the west of the little village of Howick in Natal.
Mr and Mrs Schafer, and eleven children, moved down and Sunfield Home Howick was born.
The following year the parents formed an association called Sunfield Homes, a Section 21 company, with seven of the founding members as Directors.
Over the years, thanks to the vision, dedication and tireless work of the Directors, the association established Homes near Verulam in KwaZulu-Natal (1970), in Johannesburg, Gauteng (1986), in the Cape at Wellington (1989) and at Balfour in the Free State (1991).
This created a network of dedicated Homes where the intellectually impaired could receive appropriate care. Sunfield Homes was eventually dissolved as each Home became individual Section 21 companies, each with their own Board of Directors.
