The old saying 'no one loves you like your mother' shines through Durban mum Wendy Bramley, who sourced R10 million to build classes not only for her autistic son, but for other children with special learning needs. | kaveels GoodNews24
A Durban mother promised to buildher autistic son if she could not find a school for him, and she has done just that.
It took years of toil to raise the R10 million to fulfil her promise, but she did not give up, for the sake of her autistic son and other children who struggle to find schools that give these children the extra support they need. "It was a question that he kept repeating: 'Mum, I don't have a high school, what am I going to do? Where am I going to go?' I said, 'Connor, I am your mother, I will find you a high school. And if I cannot find you one, I will build you one.' I said it because I did not want him to worry. Because that is what mums do."
"I approached my old school, and the principal was my history teacher who I had from Standard 6 to matric in those days. I went to see him about this, and he immediately said he would take Connor and wanted to build a support unit for children like Connor who need extra support in a high school, but they never had funding to build in a government school," Wendy said.
What she has managed to pull off is a commitment to build an extra five classrooms, with support rooms, so that the pupils will progress all the way to matric in classes of around 15 pupils.
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