Serving over 700 children in need
SizaBantwana employs 25 skilled care workers (similar to social workers) that provide care and support services to children living in child-headed households or other harsh circumstances. The mission of SizaBantwana is to provide a stable upbringing and joyful future for these children, ensuring that they integrate successfully into their communities as they grow into adults.
Care workers serve the majority of children through home-based care which includes assistance learning personal hygiene practices, household chores, cooking skills, health education like preventing pregnancy and AIDS, help in obtaining government documentation, medical care, and vocational skills, as well as school visits. Care workers often check-in daily with children on their case load to provide connection, basic counseling, and more.
SizaBantwana also serves over one hundred children at two care centers where children can drop in each day for a meal, a safe place to play outside, and homework help.
SizaBantwana's care workers have training in many areas, including:
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Training by the Department of Social Development
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Early childhood development
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Gender based violence prevention
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Child trafficking prevention
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Alcohol prevention
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Health promotion
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Crime prevention awareness
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Educational support
Still suffering from the effects of apartheid, these communities where the children live have limited access to or no running water or electricity. Unemployment rates are high. Violence against girls, including rape, occur at horrific rates. Many youth abandon education and drop out of school driven by the need to support their families and siblings, leading to high rates of teenage pregnancy and crime. Parenting skills are minimal, increasing the potential for neglect or abuse. Additionally, South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world. A lack of education on how the disease is spread and not knowing one’s own HIV status are just a few factors perpetuating the problem.
SizaBantwana is committed to establishing sustainable and replicable projects that can be expanded to serve more at-risk children, their families, and the communities where they live.
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Among thousands of children’s organizations in South Africa, SizaBantwana has distinguished itself, earning the government's trust to serve vulnerable youth across nine townships near Hazyview.
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Alexandria
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Madras
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Jim Brown
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Tsakane
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Marongwane
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Carlton
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Botsere
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Mathibela
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Marite Central
To learn more about their important work, visit their website at sizabantwana.org
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sizabantwana
SizaBantwana Childrens Benefit Organisation is a South African nonprofit that supports over 700 vulnerable children and orphans living in the deep rural townships of the Mpumalanga Province. These townships like Alexandria, Madras, and Marite Central have limited resources and infrastructure and are labeled as high poverty areas, with over 85% of families living below the poverty line (R19,200 or $1,160 per year).
Frank Mashego, CEO of SizaBantwana, founded this grassroots project in 1996 after seeing children in his community left to fend for themselves after their parents died. Together with the Dutch Reformed Church of Hazyview, SizaBantwana was officially established in 2007. The name was chosen because it means “helping children.”
SizaBantwana depends on government grants and donations from local groups near Hazyview such as churches, farmers, and local businessmen, but the needs of the children are great.
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