Nutritional needs of children with severe disabilities

Description

De Heide Special Care Centre responds to the needs of 28 vulnerable children with severe to profound disabilities. They attend De Heide daily against a backdrop of continued poverty, inequality, violence and social exclusion. Lack of basic commodities very often result in the children having poor nutrition with subsequent health problems which leave them less able to focus on their daily ‘programme’ at De Heide. Through the provision of good nutritional supplements De Heide would be able to significantly improve the quality of life of these children.