Omar, clinical director of the Teddy Bear Clinic for Abused Children, has never taken a sick day in her 20-year career. Passion and tenacity drive her.
“Parents we’ve worked with came to us saying they couldn’t provide food for their children. We had to search hard and fast to organise food parcels. We started a feeding scheme and we’ve been feeding families from all corners of Gauteng. We realised that people can’t move beyond their hunger pains and we needed to address that need first,” Omar said.
She said her team knew to quickly address food insecurity because where there was domestic violence there was also child abuse.
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