The AIM Centre Project began in 1986 as a protected workshop of the Association for the Physically Disabled. Our protected workshop enables work activities, skills training and personal development for people with disabilities.
Participants come to the AIM Centre to grow, enrich and develop. An average of 40 participants use our centre every week on a part-time or full-time basis. All our participants are involved in contracts and projects which includes anything from assembling products, to packaging of products. Our main contracts are from Lancet Laboratories and Dynamic Distributors.
Meaningful work and job creation are absolutely key in South Africa today, especially for people with disabilities, and the work and income it generates are at the top of our list of priorities. Developing the lives and workplace skills of the participants is our second major objective.
“I feel an atmosphere of tranquillity but also of fortitude. The energy of those who tirelessly work to benefit the lives of those being cared for here, is present. Many angels are also present and looking on at the happiness so apparent at those who work at this centre. Their lives have been changed when they found this place. Angels are circling, you are all blessed. As you sow so shall you reap. You are greeted at the gate by the vegetable garden, it sends out a message “we care, we attend too and we feed” The Angels are singing, their hearts are filled....... A new dawn has begun”