The South African orphanage says it’s losing funding from large companies because 70 percent of its children are white.
According to a report by news24.com a spokeswoman for the home said: “To us a child is a child. We don’t discriminate.”
Elzane van der Merwe also said they have 250 children between 18 months and 18 years that need daily care “regardless of race or gender.” The orphanage houses abused children who are placed in the organisation’s care by court order. They need over R25million a year to maintain their services.
The Jakaranda Children’s Home was told that it will lose funding because its practices don’t adhere to South Africa’s policy of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), van der Merwe says.
