Alma School’s founding dates back to 1963, when parents of disabled children formed a care group, giving one another a bit of free time to accomplish other things. It now is a departmental school, resorting under the Gauteng Department of Education providing special education for cerebral palsied, mentally and physically impaired children of all races between the ages of 3 and 21.

The Avril Elizabeth is currently home to 147 permanent residents and provides day care to 23. All residents and day care attendees are intellectually disabled, many with a physical disability. Twenty-four hour monitoring and care is provided to the residents who range in age from 4 years to 72 years. The main buildings house children and those with severe handicaps and the five cottages, each with house-parents, are home to people whose handicaps are less severe.

Residents' families are charged fees, but many cannot afford the full cost of providing round the clock care for the mentally disabled person. Of the residents in the Home, 75 are either orphaned, abandoned or from indigent backgrounds, placing additional drains on the Home's finances.

The Avril Elizabeth Home is engaged in various ongoing income-generating projects, which include a book room and a secondhand sales room, as well as fundraising functions throughout the year.

OUR MISSION
To provide support services in partnership with persons with disabilities, which empower service users and enhance their quality of life.

OUR VISION
A society for all, where people with disabilities have equal opportunities, free of discrimination and prejudice.

The Hope School in Johannesburg has been open since 1928 providing education, therapy and accommodation to learners with physical, behaviour and learning disabilities. The school caters for children from as young as three years old and goes all the way up to matric. The school's mission is "to assist all learners to reach their personal maximum potential overcoming all obstacles to become valuable contributors and upstanding local and global citizens in a world that is often prejudiced to anyone outside the norm." The Hope School is a remarkable school that helps and educates so many children, giving them an opportunity to live a life full of endless successes and hope.