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Sunshine Association was recently honoured with the coveted Outstanding Achievement Award by the Hamlet Foundation at their annual gala awards evening.
The Hamlet Foundation awards are presented in association with the Clinix Health Group. These national awards honour people with intellectual disabilities who have accomplished significant achievements, as well as those who go above and beyond the call of duty to help people who are intellectually disabled.

Monwabisi Mananga from the Soweto Centre is our young star of the month.
Monwabisi was born on 22 September 2004 with an emergency caesarean because the umbilical cord was around his neck.

The first Sunshine Association centre was opened thirty years ago and now we have three centres- in Craighall, Soweto / Eldorado Park and Elsburg. In the early days the children attending Sunshine had an intellectual disability (mainly Downs syndrome). Nowadays we are assessing and admitting children who have both an intellectual and physical disability.

He was a healthy baby boy until, at seven months, he was diagnosed with meningitis.

The doctor's diagnosis was devastating as Monwabisi was diagnosed with brain damage and as a result he was lame, blind and deaf and doctors informed his parents that, medically they are unable to reverse this condition.