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Fabulous prizes up for grabs in Virtual Fun Run

Enter a team in this year’s SPAR Daily Dispatch Virtual Fun Run for Disability and stand a chance to win thousands in SPAR vouchers and advertising from Daily Dispatch. Entrants get to choose their route, distance, and time and run with…

HELPING CANAAN – Can of Worms will be performing at the Guild Theatre this weekend. Ticket sales will be shared with Canaan Care Centre. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Can of Worms SA to perform for Canaan

Over the past 28 weeks, we’ve brought you news about the Fit for Logan (FFL) Challenge and how it relates to Logan Bartle, Cerebral Palsy and Canaan Care Centre. This week we bring you something unconnected to the FFL Challenge and yet…

TICKLED PINK: Duram Smart Paints and Burmeisters are just two of the sponsors who are partnering with the GO! & Express for their Mandela Day initiative at Canaan Care Centre Picture: WENDY KRETSCHMANN WENDY KRETSCHMANN

Thanks for help in tough times

Centre needs beanbag chairs for children What would we do without support and contributions particularly in these very difficult times when everyone, individuals and business alike, have been affected by Covid-19? So, the fact that people…

SA CHAMPIONS: Paralympians, from left, Ernst van Dyk, Jonathan Ntutu, Union Sekailwe, Charl Bouwer and Natalie du Toit celebrate during SA’s 2012 Paralympics held in London. Picture: VELI NHLAPO

Celebrating athletes with cerebral palsy

Athletes conquer condition to succeed The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games is set to open on Tuesday August 24 and will end on Sunday September 5, 2021 which was postponed from 2020 due to Covid. The first Paralympic Games were hosted in Rome,…

AQUA THERAPY: Swimming is an essential form of therapy at Canaan Care Centre. Picture: LEIGH TEBBUTT

Enabling activities boost your motor functionality

Cerebral palsy sufferers benefit from therapeutic stimulation and exercise Though cerebral palsy does hold restrictions, there are still sufferers who have sufficient functionality that enables them to participate in activities that…

Logan Bartle turns three

Monday, May 31 2021 was a day of celebration in the Bartle household as Logan Trevor Bartle turned 3 years of age. Celebrations began a couple of days prior to that though when the occasion was marked by a party compliments of Venom Pit…

SPREADING JOY: Arena Holding community titles product manager Chris van Heerden, right, plays with Landi, a Canaan Care Centre resident. GO! & Express editor, Matthew Field, watches the joyful interactionPicture: LEIGH TEBBUT

‘Adopt a room for Canaan Care Centre, brighten our world’

LEIGH TEBBUT Canaan Care Centre is a non-profit organisation for profoundly physically and intellectually disabled children. Our centre consists of a therapy day-centre and a home-from-home residential house for the children who live out…

Magical visit to Canaan Care Centre

Specific needs are taken into consideration Albert Einstein is quoted as saying: “The only source of knowledge is experience.” These words proved to be true when the GO! & Express joined Pot O’Curry owner Tubs Lingham and his wife, Jeska,…

LIVING AND LOVING: Hayley Bartle holds her son Logan during a visit to the beach when he was two. Picture: SUPPLIED

Logan’s mom tells her tale

Born by C-section at 27 weeks, weighing 760g It’s important for us all to remember that Logan Bartle is not only a little boy who has cerebral palsy – he is also a son, grandson, nephew and cousin. Though the focus of the Fit for Logan…

Caring for Canaan

“Every child with a disability should be treated with love, respect and dignity and be given the best life that one can give them. Treat disabled children as you would everyone else and remember that just because they cannot speak does…

FITTING CAUSE – The official logo for the Fit for Logan challenge

What is cerebral palsy?

“Fit for Logan” aims to raise funds for Logan Bartle who has CP. Over the past few weeks, a few of the participants have shared a bit about their journey and why they joined the “Fit for Logan” campaign. The goal of the campaign is…

CAPTION GOING TO THE DOGS: Occupational therapist Leslie Labuchagne, middle, sharing a laugh with Buhle Sekho, left, and Zara

Dog therapy for the little ones

Canaan Care Centre will soon have a new staff member who will be bringing along a different set of techniques to help care for children. This takes the form of a “therapy dog” that will provide support to those children who are in need of…

GENEROUS DONATION: There were joyful smiles as the pupils of the Canaan Care Centre pupils received their new wheelchairs. Back, from left, are Lungiswa Dyase and Precious Myelele. Front, from left, are Damian de Jager, Kamva Mdintsi and Elam Moyake Picture: SIVENATHI GOSA

New wheelchairs from Switzerland

The Canaan Care Centre recently received a donation of 17 Shonaquip wheelchairs to the value of R360 000, from the Swiss-based Rausch Foundation, an organisation that focuses mainly on children with physical disabilities. Centre manager…

HELPING HANDS: Board members of Canaan Care Centre with Rotary Interact members and NLC officials, back from left, Curtis Kleinhans, Eleanor Saayman, Richard Tubbett, Sarah Hugo, Caron Thompson, Leigh Tubbett and, front from left, Shannon Chacko, Jaydee Nicholson, Melissa Hayward and Velintle Manzana Picture: SIVENATHI GOSA

New home for Canaan kids

CANAAN Care Centre launched their new premises in Gleneagles Road in Bunkers Hill on Thursday in a move away from Belgravia Crescent. Canaan Care Centre is a non-profit organisation providing care for people with profound mental and…

Center shows off new facility

Locals gathered at the launch of the new Canaan Care Center premises to see the new facility, and celebrate it with the officials of the centre. For the full story, read the GO! &Express tomorrow Pictures:SIVENATHI GOSA