Thrive Ds Foundation

Welcome to the Thrive DS Foundation. Please consider partnering with us to make a real difference. We proudly serve and support people with Down Syndrome and related intellectual disabilities to become functionally independent and live more full lives. They have more to offer than many stereotypes suggest. We're a place of safety for babies and children with DS and related intellectual disabilities, and foster them until 'forever families' can be found to adopt them. Although we're based in the Garden Route, we're networked across SA for unwanted babies with Down Syndrome. Why “Thrive”? Thriving people are more confident, more energised and are better able to respond to challenges. If you invest into the life of a child with hope, faith and expectation for their development, you have no guarantee of the outcome. Ongoing love, nurturing and care ensures that each person will develop to a greater level of their potential. If you do not invest in the life of a child because you have no expectation or hope, undesirable things will manifest in that child’s life because there is no purposeful, intentional investment in their development. Sadly, we have such children in our care. They need much help, and respond well to love, positive input and nurturing. It takes a lot of time and support to overcome challenges where early developmental input was neglected. A biblical definition: Jeremiah 17:7-8 – “But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made the Lord their hope and confidence. They are like trees planted along a river bank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green and they never stop producing fruit".