Welcome to the Avril Elizabeth Home for the Mentally Handicapped.

We’re so pleased you found us. Step through our doors and you’ll find a place filled with love, light and laughter. Sunlight and music spill into our corridors as residents and staff go about their daily activities.

Alternative number for AEH:  082 465 5303 CEO: aehteddy@mweb.co.za Care: aehstim@mweb.co.za

Accounts: sungulani@mweb.co.za Fundraising:  aehome@mweb.co.za

The Home

Our residents are not simply housed and fed, but are encouraged to reach their maximum potential.

Stimulation & therapy

Support services, skilled nursing and physiotherapy is the heart of the Home.

Our residents

The Avril Elizabeth is currently home to 154 permanent residents.

Sneak Peak

Get your copy of our latest Cookbook!!!

Purchase a bear that cares

The teddy bear became the Avril Elizabeth Homes mascot in 1980 and teddies of all shapes and sizes are found throughout the home offering security and cuddles to our residents.

Besides being cuddly and cute, bears offer unconditional love, reassurance, security and compassion. Many adults still have fond memories of their own teddy bears who they loved as children. many of our residents don't have parents for cuddles or reassurance.

We have new and re-purposed bears you can purchase and gift to anyone you feel needs a bit of security, care or love. Should you wish to pay it forward to someone special, The Avril Elizabeth Home will package it up and send it to the "lucky receiver".

Order your teddy for someone special at aehcontact@mweb.co.za

Please stipulate delivery or collection and the relevant name and address.

A fee of R100 will be charged for courier service.

All proceeds will go to the Avril Elizabeth Home for our Care project.

How you can help

We have relied and survived on the generosity of our donors for 51 years and we need your help to continue to do so.

154 intellectually disabled residents call home.