Projects >  Family STRENGTHENING

Just surviving is not enough.

​A stable family is an important indicator of a healthy community. One way of dealing with the vulnerability of children is to make families stronger. 

Our initiatives include providing parenting and life skills support, access to grants, short term food relief, advice and referrals  for more than 240 families each year to help them stay together and find long-term solutions. 

Our  Social Justice Clinic also assists with ID, birth certificate and social welfare or grant applications. 
Beautiful Gate helped us to get a social grant, so we can live with Gogo (granny) after mama died. They help us with food, school uniforms and someone visits each week. I feel safe now.


helping 
families 
stay together 
&  
find 
long-term solutions

investing 
in 
our community 
for a brighter
future

Every year we run a number of workshops to help equip parents, caregivers and the general community with important life skills and information.  
Parenting skills training

Our parenting skills training runs over 8 days (once a week), reaching a total of 120 parents each year. Topics covered include: 
  • God’s heart for families
  • Positive parenting (discipline)
  • Disclosing secrets (including memory work, fathers and HIV status)
  • Restoring family ties
  • Rights and responsibilities – raising children holistically (looking at child’s gifts)
  • Succession planning
  • Psycho-social care and support (mainstream – not just material provision but nurturing children)
  • Education, homework support and career advice
  • Basic medical training
Let Your Light Shine

Our HIV intervention programme is for participants who have attended the Parenting Skills course. A total of 120 participants attend this course each year.

Let Your Light Shine identifies vulnerable or at-risk children, seeking ways to help and support children in the community. At the end of each course participants come up with a community plan of action. 

Community Mobiliser training

This training programme is run over 3 days, 3 times per year. We take 10 participants per course (30 per year) and train and mentor them as Community Mobilisers with the goal of establishing child care forums within existing community structures.