Siyakholwa Support Care Centre (SSCC), a Germiston-based NPO, calls on the public and private sectors to join forces to combat poverty in underprivileged communities.
Working across all nine provinces, the organisation focuses on helping underprivileged communities in informal settlements and rural areas.
The organisation has been working on the ground for many years serving marginalised underprivileged communities.
The NPO has made a name for itself by focusing primarily on helping children, women, and elderly people in different communities. They have also helped abused victims to helping job seekers.
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Beauty Munyu, SSCC’s executive director, said they offer programmes to alleviate poverty, to help orphans and vulnerable children, and also to assist the youth.
“We have several children, especially in the informal settlements, who do not attend school,” said Munyu.
“They face challenges such as not having school uniforms or not owning an ID.
“We provide feeding schemes daily because of the levels of poverty and unemployment in the communities,” Munyu said.
The SSCC has in each province a satellite office with one project manager and 10 volunteers. Monitoring and evaluation are done by their steering committee at Germiston head office.
Though they are established nationwide, Munyu said Covid-19 has depleted their funds.
“We are seeking donations of essential products like food, PPE and sustainable development goals to create job opportunities,” explained Munyu.
“Let us collaborate and demonstrate our Ubuntu and togetherness as a nation to ensure we find the best communal solution for our beautiful country, South Africa.”
Their national project aim is to curb the spread and effects of Covid-19 and the gender-based violence pandemic through empowerment programmes.
Munyu said, “The aim is to make sustainability and innovation an integral part of the mission to combat the GBV crisis.
“One of the main reasons for the continued violence is the failure of the justice system in GBV cases. These failures create an environment where perpetrators of violence are not held accountable for their actions.”
SSCC recently donated the Benoni informal settlement where 120 families benefited.
Contact Munyu at 068 168 5486 or visit their website at www.siyakholwasupportcarecentre.org.zahttps://youtu.be/7_L48D7KgJY
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