Marsh Memorial Homes

Marsh Memorial Homes nurtures children and transforms lives, by providing short term care for children who have experienced abuse, neglect or abandonment. Our programmes strive to rehabilitate and re-unite children with their families or communities of origin, having developed in them the skill necessary for them to develop into confident, productive and responsible adults.

This work of transformation begins with Marsh Memorial Homes providing a safe, stable and loving environment for the children in our care. The environment coupled with an intentional life skills programme, along with multidisciplinary therapeutic support and counselling aims to assist children to find healing, rebuild their self-respect and confidence, thus ensuring that when they leave our care they are equipped to achieve their dreams.

All children in our care come to us via the children’s court system, the majority have families. Ultimately, our goal is to see all the children happily reunited with their rehabilitated families. In order to achieve this, we work in partnership with the Department of Social Development and a number of Welfare organisations who focus on assisting the families in their local communities and are committed to reuniting families if at all possible. The roots of Marsh Memorial Homes are to be found in the generosity of William Marsh.

William Marsh, Born in 1822 in Walsall in Staffordshire, moved to the Cape Colony with his wife Frances, and founded a hardware firm in Cape Town that became extremely successful. Their only son, Thomas Edward (always known by his second name, after his father’s older brother), was born in Cape Town in 1854. After matriculating from the South African College, Edward worked in his father’s business for seven years before responding to a call to the ministry and going to Richmond Methodist College in London to train as a minister.

On the 28 August 1901 the Marsh Memorial Homes officially opened their doors on the 12 January 1903 when the first children were admitted.

Much has changed over the years, the estate is considerably smaller with portions having been sold to raise funds, expropriated for the building of roads and leased to the Woodside Village Trust. So today on a smaller property the good work started by the Reverend Edward Marsh continues in the present Marsh Memorial Homes, a multicultural child and youth care facility under the auspices of The Methodist Church of Southern Africa.

  • Listing ID: 3541
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16 Norton Way, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700, South AfricaAfrica,Global,7700 Show phone number ***** http://marshmemorial.org.za

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