How do we honour Youth Day and all it commemorates? The answer is rather simple – giving back.
This year, we shine a light on institutions protecting our nation’s most vulnerable. We have identified five non-profit organisations which are geared towards providing aid to Cape Town’s Youth.
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Cape Town Child Welfare Society
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As a notable Child Protection Agency, this organisation deems ‘making the world a better place, especially for children’ to be its overall goal. They aim to break the cycle of despair as seen in the lives of many at-risk youth. Adoption services, foster care placements and family preservation services are but a few of the services they offer to the community.
- Location: Lower Klipfontein Road, Gatesville, Athlone. Cape Town
- Contact: 0216383127
- Online: Cape Town Child Welfare Society
Marsh Memorial Homes
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Marsh Memorial Homes offers short term care for child victims of abuse, neglect or abandonment. The team at Marsh offers residential care, therapy and counselling as well as recreational and spiritual development. Their ultimate aim is to see all the children happily reunited with their rehabilitated families.
- Location: Rondebosch, Cape Town
- Contact: 027 21 689 9301
- Online: Marsh Memorial Homes
Uzwelo Youth Development
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Based in Ndabeni, this non-profit organisation focuses on social justice immersion trips wherein young people from different backgrounds come together in the name of future unity. Youth Leadership Seminars, Webinars and Sunday School Teacher Training are its other focal points. Uzwelo, a Zulu term, translates to Compassion and this is their precise motivation.
- Location: 75 Morningside Street, Ndabeni, Cape Town, 7405
- Contact: [email protected]
- Online: Uzwelo Youth Development
Lavender Hill Sports and Recreation Foundation
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Founded in 2010, this organisation began as a soccer and netball club for children. In addition to this, a dance academy and girls long board and skateboard team was added. The priority here is keeping the youth off the streets, out of trouble and away from gangsterism prevalent in the community.
- Location: Lavender Hill, Cape Town, 7945
- Contact: 063 567 3739
- Online: Lavender Hill Sports and recreation Foundation
SA Children’s Home
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The South African Children’s Home holds the title of South Africa’s first established welfare institution. It is tasked with providing care, security and a homely environment to 44 young boys and girls. They believe to be in existence because ‘the children always come first.’
- Location: Ivanhoe Street 3, Gardens, Cape Town
- Contact: 027 21 423 1328
- Online: SA Children’s Home
All in all, each one of these organisations aim to spread a little light. Youth Day marks the perfect occasion to help them reach this goal.
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