Gillitts company shares community spirit with Ingane Yami Children’s Village
Ingane Yami’s goal is for the children in its care to go back into the community as healthy adults who will be able to lead by example.
THE staff at School-Days, a KZN-based education bursary platform, got into the Mabiba month spirit by creating customised packs of colouring books and crayons for each child at Ingane Yami Children’s Village.
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Staff from School-Days team visited the facility to drop off the packs and find out more about the dynamics of this incredible village.
Based in the Shongweni Valley in KZN, Ingane Yami Children’s Village is a permanent, loving home for orphaned and vulnerable children.
The village is home to its own school, sports facilities and community hall. The 18 children at the village live in five houses, each with their own ‘mother’ who cares for the children and looks after the household, emulating a family home environment.
Patricia Deacon, Ingane Yami marketing and fundraising manager, took the School-Days team around the village, explaining how it’s structured. “We want children to feel that they are no longer orphaned or abandoned, which is why each child is cared for in a house by a mother figure. South Africa is not going to change unless its children are given a safe and nurturing upbringing,” she said.
“School-Days supports employee and corporate engagement that makes a positive impact on society. But, at School-Days, supporting South African families is not something we do only once a year. Our day-to-day work revolves around empowering all South Africans to build their own education bursaries to help pay towards their families’ school, college and university fees,” said School-Days managing director, Chris Nel.
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