Design Your Own Leather Handbag, and Buy Us a Day
Forty women, one morning, a room full of leather and colour. Once the materials are paid for, what remains cover roughly one day of running Daybreak House. This is a piece about what one day actually holds, and why forty new people knowing our name matters as much as the money.
The Hands That Love
A woman’s arms. A baby’s head resting against her shoulder. The second painting in The Radiant Collection is a tribute to every pair of hands that has ever held a Daybreak baby.
The Radiant Collection
A painting on an easel. A little girl who does not know her story is about to hang on someone’s wall. This is the beginning of The Radiant Collection, and the first painting is called Promise.
Her Name Is Written Somewhere Better
Yesterday morning, Madel was paging through our baby files in my office when she stopped at a birth certificate and said it was the weirdest one she had ever seen. The surname was spelt wrong. Where the parents’ names should have been, there was nothing. I started crying. Last night I sat with that blank space and a prayer for our little warrior princess.
We Thought We Were a Baby House. Then Somebody Learned to Climb
We thought we were a baby house. We were. And then, very gradually and without asking permission, our babies became toddlers. This is the story of everything we did not see coming, including the potty training, which became a group sport.
The Child Behind the Statistic
Behind every child protection statistic is one specific, individual, irreplaceable child. One child who needed, at a particular moment in their life, for someone to notice. To intervene. To choose them. National Child Protection Week runs from 29 May to 5 June 2026. This post is about what choosing a child actually looks like, and why you are not too small to do it.
El Roi – The God Who Sees: What Hagar Teaches Us About Babies Left Behind
El Roi. The God who sees. It is the name Hagar gave to God in the wilderness when she believed she and her child were utterly alone. It is the name that anchors everything we do at Daybreak House.
Alabaster Box Gallery: Using Art to Support Vulnerable Children
A registered non-profit using art to raise funds for vulnerable children. An artist who believes creativity is a calling. And a two-thousand-year-old story about a woman who poured out something costly because she understood what it was for. Here is why Alabaster Box Gallery matters to Daybreak House.
What We Mean When We Say “Home”
A home is not a building. It is a way of being held. Here is why that distinction shapes everything we do at Daybreak.
Progress, carefully welcomed: the Children’s Amendment Bill, 2025
New child protection legislation is working its way through Parliament. Here is what it proposes, what we find hopeful, and where we are watching carefully.