“I dared to dream big and start my own foundation in service of children with profound mental and physical disabilities. It’s been a long and interesting journey with many challenges along the way, but I have never taken my eye off becoming an empowered young, black female who is determined to add value.
It gives my life great meaning to making a difference to the vulnerable children and young adults who find their way to my organisation. I also take pride in valuable skills transfer with my staff, elevating them to a level of excellence in working with our special needs children and young adults who require an expert hand.”
Palesa Mofokeng
About Us
Queen Butterfly Foundation is a stimulation centre in Roodepoort for children and young adults with profound mental and physical disabilities. Through expertly formulated programmes, each child has the opportunity to improve their functionality, experience greater interaction with their environment and participate in fun and interactive activities.
Each child and young adult are assessed before being enrolled at our Centre to ascertain whether our facility is suitable in helping them reach their physical, psychological and emotional goals.
Our trained special needs facilitators work tirelessly on a one-on-one basis with each individual, implementing the exercises and appropriate therapy in a programme that is collaboratively formed with the help and guidance of our physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech language pathologists.
Under our expert guidance, the children embark on a journey of discovering the full range of their own capabilities. Through exercise, therapy and social activities they grow their physical functionality, are encouraged to increase their levels of autonomy, interaction with others while developing healthy coping mechanisms as they make their way through their challenging lives.
OUR VISION
To become the primary example of a world class model stimulation centre for children and young adults with profound mental and physical disabilities.
OUR MISSION
To create and implement meaningful, effective and personalised stimulatory programmes of the highest quality.
To provide a safe and loving stimulatory environment where each special needs individual is treated with love, respect, dignity and consideration.
To provide a facility with the express purpose of elevating functionality and enjoyment in life.
To ensure that our team undergoes continuous professional development to offer the best service to our charges.
To be ambassadors in our community to advocate for the rights, consideration and wellbeing of children and young adults with disabilities.
Motor Skills
We do fine motor skills activities to help increase movements using the small muscles in the hands, enhancing the quality and speed of the ability to grasp, move and manipulate objects while performing tasks. We also work on gross motor skills to help increase balance, range of motion and grow large muscle group strength in the arms, legs and torso.
Playing
We teach our special needs children how to manipulate toys or objects and engaging with others while having fun. Playing and interacting with other children helps to elevate their social awareness and enjoyment in life.
Active Movement
Different positions and active movements during our one-on-one activities helps to provide a framework for the individual improvement of each child or young adult.
An Active Lifestyle
A programme designed for an active lifestyle:
What the parents say
Don’t take our word for it – here’s what our parents say:
My daughter Keabetswe Kutu is well treated by everyone at the foundation.As parents we can see how happy she is and it’s all thanks to the founder, Palesa Mofokeng who personally convinced us that our daughter will be well taken care of.
Mrs Kutu
My son has known Palesa Mofokeng for 13 years now. Palesa used to be his teacher before she opened her own organization called QBF.
After 3 years of separation from her, he joined the foundation. My son is absolutely flourishing with the dedicated care facilitators and therapists.
Carolyn Davies
Crystal Raine lives for school! She looks forward to the bus arriving every morning to fetch her. She has a full day of exercise, social interaction, therapy and laughter and gets home exhausted and happy. We cannot ask for more than the happiness and joy that she experiences at Queen Butterfly Foundation. She loves her friends and facilitators and misses them so much over weekends and school holidays.
Julie Botha
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Our Team
Our team is a group of hand-picked, devoted individuals whose passion it is to create a safe, loving, interesting and exciting environment in which our special children can thrive. They are trained and committed to go the extra mile for each child.
Palesa Lorrain Mofokeng
Certificate in Early Childhood Development
Founder & Principal
Palesa took a leap of faith and opened Queen Butterfly Foundation on 20 July 2015 with only one assistant and three children. She has since grown the centre to where there are three full-time facilitators, one part-time facilitator and a lot of volunteer support to serve the special needs children at the centre. Queen Butterfly goes from strength to strength, growing its service to the Roodepoort community of children and young adults with profound disabilities.
Palesa’s message to the world: Don’t let fear stand in the way of you reaching for your dreams. Take a leap of faith and dare to live your best life.
Julie Botha
BPsych (PMT0098442); BA Hon AAC
Vice Principal
Julie is a psychometrist, wellness counsellor.
She is the mother of Crystal Raine who was the first child enrolled at Queen Butterfly Foundation in 2015. She has recently joined Queen Butterfly as our Vice Principal to help our organisation reach new heights.
Julie’s message to the world: To add value to those around you elevates your purpose in life, provides you with endless opportunities to grow and reach your own highest potential while leaving the world a better place for you having been in it.
Jacques Botha
Driver
Jacques is Crystal Raine’s brother who recently relocated to Johannesburg from the Western Cape. He joined his dad in running their pest control company in Roodepoort and has recently taken on the role of Driver for Queen Butterfly Foundation as well. With his love for his sister and her friends at school, he has been easily embraced as a new member of our team.
Jacques’ message to the world: Being patient, systematic and diligent in the efforts you make to achieving your goals means that you will consistently grow your own track record of ongoing success.
Blessing Takawira
Special Needs Facilitator
One of our valued members of staff
Thoko Serobatse
Special Needs Facilitator
One of our valued members of staff
Sherley Gaobotse
Special Needs Facilitator
One of our valued members of staff
Juliet Luthuli
Temp Special Needs Facilitator
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