Creating opportunities

for a positive future

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Providing a second

chance at family

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Strong family

values are formed

at Home from Home

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Our foster mothers

epitomize the

values of Ubuntu

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We provide safe

and nurturing

family-based care

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Our Team

Creating and maintaining 36 loving family homes for our children in 16 different communities in the broader Western Cape, requires a whole family of team members with diverse roles and a solid commitment. This Family Team is made up of the following groups:

Board of Trustees

Our Board of Trustees are a dedicated group of especially skilled volunteers who have been elected to this role and provide us with the necessary governance oversight. Their experience and expertise in different fields is an essential support to management in running of the organisation.

Founders

Our Founders: While Jane Payne and Pippa Shaper are no longer running the organisation, they still play significant supportive and ambassadorial roles for Home from Home

Office Team

Our Office staff team includes all the staff necessary to support the crucial role being played within our 36 families, i.e. Social Workers, Social Auxiliary Workers and an Educational specialist who play the crucial direct support for the families, providing supervision, guidance and emotional support. This team also includes Fundraising, Finance, Administrative, Operational and cleaning staff.

Foster Parents

Our Foster Parents and the Assistant Foster Mothers, are at the heart of our work and create the loving family home environments which afford our children that second chance at experiencing ‘family’. Here their role in establishing a sense of belonging for our children and teaching important family values, form the foundation on which healing, education and preparation for successful citizenship, is based.

Associates

Our Associates are community organisations and some individuals. Home from Home has developed a formal relationship with regards to supporting and running the homes in specific communities.

Affiliates

Our Affiliates are organisations like ourselves that run foster care homes, but have formally partnered with Home from Home in using our Model of Care and accessing some oversight and consultative services.

Supporters

Our Volunteers, Supporters and Funders: We have been very fortunate to have a number of very loyal and committed team members in this group, which makes all the work possible!

Our Board

Professor Andrew Dawes (Chairperson)

Andrew (Andy) Dawes is a clinical and developmental psychologist. He is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town and a Research Associate with the Young Lives study at the University of Oxford. He joined the Home from Home Board of Trustees in 2011.

Anna Vayanos

Anna Vayanos is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa as well as a solicitor for England and Wales. Anna practised trust, tax and charity law in both Cape Town and London for a period of ten years. Passionate about making a difference in South Africa, she then left legal practice to pursue a role working with donors and the non-profit sector. She re-conceptualised and soon headed up the Philanthropy Office at Nedbank Private Wealth. The business was recognised as the industry leader in South Africa in the provision of philanthropy services in August 2012 and remains the largest and most established philanthropy offering with repeated international recognition.

Anna formed Anna Vayanos Philanthropy Consulting in 2013. She remains very active within the donor and NPO sector and her current board positions include Vice Chairperson of Home from Home as well as Women in Philanthropy (South Africa). She has spoken at many conferences, is a regular contributor of articles and viewpoints on industry-related topics, and co-wrote Advancing Philanthropy in South Africa with Shelagh Gastrow. Anna advises donors and NPOs on tax exemption and structuring, financial sustainability, good governance and responsible and effective giving.

Deepa Daya (Treasurer)

Deepa Daya’s qualifications include CA(SA), Registered SAICA Assessor, PDA Analyst, NLI Results Certified Coach and a Post Grad in Financial Planning.

Deepa qualified as a CA (SA) after completing TOPP articles with Ernst and Young Advisory, working predominantly in Corporate Finance, Risk Advisory and Taxation. She has worked at Alexander Forbes, South African Breweries and Citidal Investment Services. Deepa specialises in business advisory, coaching and Chartered Accountant (CA) training and development at Atcor.

Deepa joined the boards of the Home from Home Trust; the Home from Home Sustainability Trust and the Home from Home Education Trust in August 2018.

Louise Driver

Louise Driver currently holds the position of Executive Director of IPASA, the Independent Philanthropy Association of South Africa, a membership based philanthropy forum which promotes, advances and supports philanthropy in South Africa.

Prior to joining IPASA, Louise held the position of CEO of the Red Cross Children’s Hospital Trust for 9 years, funding through the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital.

Louise has a Business Science Honours degree in Social Marketing from UCT and over 25 years of social development and corporate experience. Louise has won numerous awards in the Social Development sector.

Prof. Thulane Gxubane

Professor Thulane Gxubane is currently a Deputy HOD, a Coursework postgraduate programmes convener and a senior lecturer in the Department of Social Development at UCT. As a social worker he has worked mainly in the field of criminal justice system mainly with youth offenders, their victims and their families within the context of youth diversion programme. He holds a PhD Degree in Social Work from UCT. He teaches and specializes in probation practice as part of the broader of criminal justice social work field. His research areas of interest in which he has published extensively include: probation practice, youth justice, restorative justice, family group conferencing, youth sex offending, youth gang violence and reintegration of offenders.

Freda Brock

Freda has worked as a social worker in child welfare, community development, mental health and student field training. She served for many years as director of a national early childhood development organisation involved in practitioner training, research, advocacy and materials development. She is committed to supporting NPO leadership, in recent years through coaching of individuals and teams, and currently through voluntary service.