Originally we were called The One Love Day Service. At that time we had our own licence and a board of Ethiopian members. Unfortunately that board proved to be untrustworthy and we were forced to relinquish that licence. At the time, in order for the service to continue, we had no choice other than to accept the generous offer from the local Ethiopian Catholic Church to use their licence so that we could continue to function. At that time we changed our name to The One Heart Therapeutic Centre. Now we , once again, have our own licence , and our own very trust worthy board of professionals and have changed our name for use under this new licence to The One Heart Wholeness Centre.

When a mother brings her child to us asking for help we do an assessment of the childs needs. Basically, if we feel we can meet those needs we offer the child a place if we have a vacancy, otherwise the child is placed on our waiting list. Generally we offer places to children with profound needs and often with concomitant impairments. If the child is more able than our children we refer them to the local school for children with disabilities or to one of the other 2 NGO's in town offering a drop-in service to such children.

Sadly, No.
We set Aims & Objectives for each child and the staff work, using all the various therapies, to support each child to reach these goals. Once the first set of goals is reached we set new A&O and we repeat this practice until we feel that we have achieved all that we can achieve with each child. It is at that point that we are forced to terminate their service to make space for a new child who we can help. We have a very long waiting list and due to budgetary restraints we cannot take on more children so those on the waiting list are essentially waiting for a child to move on.