Durban business donates safe space
The Domino Foundation encourages businesses and individuals to partner with them to make a difference in communities.
A DURBAN-BASED engineering company donated a prefabricated cabin to a local primary school to provide much-needed private space for the youth worker team from The Domino Foundation’s Life Skills programme.
Up until recently, youth worker, Thobile Msani, and her fellow youth worker, Goodman Mlita, had to deal with the challenge of not having a ‘safe space’ as a counselling venue at Ekuthuleni Primary School Classrooms were at a premium in a school of 2038 pupils and an average of 54 in each class.
That all changed when the company donated the cabin.
Thobile explained that issues young people have to deal with are often very complex and, as adolescence approaches, physical, emotional, social and psychological developmental changes can be very confusing.
“Many of the learners we work with have the added complications of difficult family situations, lots of unemployment, fragmented family structures, and so it is important that they feel completely secure that they can talk about anything. This cabin provides that safe space.”
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The team uses the cabins both as an office and a facility to see children for one-on-one meetings or counselling times.
Thobile said: “We were approached by the engineering company to see how they could be part of our work to impact the lives of the young people our programmes work with. When they heard of the need for a counselling room, they saw it as a great opportunity to help change lives.”
Tarin Stevenson, Domino’s donor relations manager expressed her gratitude to the company: “We deal with the day-to-day issues of running our eight programmes and are thrilled when companies and groups step in to provide the big items not catered for in our budgets.”
She invited other businesses and individuals who would like to explore the opportunities to be part of ‘the answer’ to the challenges so many in our communities face to contact her at tarin@domino.org.za or 031 563 9605.
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