About Us

Short History

Guild Cottage was started in 1907 as a home for orphans and children in distress. Since that time it has a long record of looking after children in need mainly by supplying long-term residential care. Over the past 20 years Guild Cottage has developed into a treatment centre for sexually abused and traumatised children. Over the past few years guild Cottage has also developed a Community Outreach Program with the objective of enlightening the community of the horrors and consequences of sexual abuse and thereby keep children safe and out of the welfare system.

Objectives of the Home

To treat abused and traumatised children and their families with the view of reunification.
To support these families through a transition period.
To provide education to community members to help them recognise and prevent abuse.
To teach cascade of learning principles to get maximum coverage from the teaching.

Management Structures
Patrons:
Mr. Justice Edwin Cameron
Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeal, General Secretary of the Rhodes Trust in Southern Africa, Chair of the Governing Council of the University of Witwatersrand, author of Witness to AIDS (2005)

Dr. Aquina Thulare
MBChB (Natal), BSc Hon. (Stel.), MBA (Wits)

Director of Home
Mrs. Patricia Heslop BSc. (Wits), B.A.Hons. (Barat USA), M.S.W. (U.I.C. USA)

Management Board
Inno W Monsma
ACIS ACMA Chairman

Duncan Hendry
BCom. (Wits), MBA(UCT) Vice-chairman

Chris Aitken
CA.(SA) Treasurer

Pippa Barnes
Secretary

Dvina Monsma
Public Relations
 
Mamongae Mahlare
BSc.(Eng.)(Wits), MBA (Harvard) Management, Consultant