A new initiative was started in Bloemfontein with the view to keeping homeless children off the streets. The Think Before You Give project was jointly started by the Park Road Police Station and the Kidz Care Trust.
The aim of this project is to get street children into shelters, places of safety or back to their homes and to discourage the community from giving food and money to street children which in turn encourages them to stay on the streets.
The Kidz Care Trust is a non-governmental organisation registered as a NPO working with vulnerable street children under the age of 18. They give these children shelter at the Ikaheng Shelter in Roodewal.
Until it is possible for the children to be positioned back into the community, comprehensive care is rendered, including education, sport and recreation, housekeeping, life-skills and religion. The organisation also runs a Drop-in Centre in partnership with the Park Road Police Station for the boys.
There is also a Drop-In Centre at the Park Road Police Station.
This programme includes the following:
- Providing meals for the children.
- The children take showers and change into clean clothes.
- Basic informal schooling.
- Sport and recreational activities (playing soccer and board games).
- The children get spiritual upliftment.
Contact details:
Ms Fadzayi Matango (Social Worker)
Cell: +27 73 437 8813
Address:
113 Kort Avenue, Roodewal, Bloemfontein
PO Box 20055,
Willows 9320
E: kidzcaretrust@iburst.co.za