Precious Blessings is a registered Place of Safety Nursery and loving home for babies and toddlers under management of the Tshwane Place of Safety Association.
Precious Blessings is managed by George and Heidi Versfeld. They take in up to six babies and toddlers and have helped a total of 16 children thus far. They are located in Die Wilgers, Pretoria.
Mission at Precious Blessings
- To provide a secure, happy home environment for babies and toddlers in crises.
- To provide loving care of children until they can be placed with other place of safety parents, foster parents or adoption parents.
- To provide an overnight shelter for children removed or found by the SAPS.
How Precious Blessings began
We are George and Heidi Versfeld, an average family living in Die Wilgers, Pretoria and we believe that each child is a precious blessing, deserving to grow up in a loving, safe home.
In 2004 our family moved to Ghana where George worked and we were fortunate enough to be actively involved with a Children’s Home.
In 2009 we moved to Zimbabwe and proceeded to adopt our eldest son, an abandoned Down Syndrome baby, and in 2010 we adopted our second son, orphaned when his mother died soon after childbirth, also from Ghana.
Upon our return to South Africa in 2012 we were approved as a Place of Safety home under the umbrella of Tshwane Place of Safety Association, an organisation that has been instrumental in making in difference in vulnerable children’s lives since 2003. We became a Nursery in 2017, which means that we can care for up to 6 babies and toddles.
We are very blessed to still have our three biological daughters living at home together with our two adopted sons.
We absolutely love what we do and have witnessed some amazing changes in little ones when they experience a safe loving home.
The joy our Precious Blessings bring to their forever families is beyond measure. With help we hope to continue loving and nurturing many more Precious Blessings.
How to donate
As a Nursery, Precious Blessings is totally independent when it comes to donations and financial sourcing. To donate to the Nursery, please chose an option below:
Direct bank transfer
Bank: Standard Bank
Account name: Tshwane Place of Safety Association
Account type: Current
Bank account no: 012781282
Branch code: 012345
Swift code: SBZAZAJJ (for use by international donors)
Reference: PB and your name
Manager/House Mother
Heidi Versfeld
Cell: 082 962 5333
Email: versfeldheidi100@gmail.com
Die Wilgers, Pretoria
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