Matla A Bana is a charity project initiated and managed by the Callie and Monique Strydom Charity Trust. The Callie and Monique Trust were founded upon the return of Callie and Monique Strydom after a 4-month hostage ordeal in South-east Asia. At the end of 2002 Monique Strydom was asked to chair a task team that investigated child rape in South Africa. A need for an organisation which could address all the grey areas in the child protection system in South Africa arose and the Strydom Trust undertook to address this need.

By focusing on one station, the donation will facilitate the much-needed resources, facilities and support to child victims and it offers a sustainable project. The facility will include a separate waiting area, child friendly assessment room, (bed, children’s toys, TV) and a monitoring room with audio visual recording facility, the assessment room and the monitoring room is linked with a 2-way mirror facility. The assessment room offers the child a safe child-friendly environment to disclose and be assessed.

The monitoring room offers the detective and social worker the ability to monitor the child. This facility doubles up as an identification room, where the child can identify the perpetrator from within a secure environment.