We have no drugs but we have knowledge
Northcliff Primary’s Grade 4 to7 pupils had the opportunity to listen to anti-drug speaker and author Steve Hamilton on 5 August. Hamilton wrote the book I want my Life Back. At a young age, he learned how alcohol can dominate every dynamic in family life. Later, alcohol and drugs dominated every aspect of his own …
Northcliff Primary’s Grade 4 to7 pupils had the opportunity to listen to anti-drug speaker and author Steve Hamilton on 5 August.
Hamilton wrote the book I want my Life Back. At a young age, he learned how alcohol can dominate every dynamic in family life. Later, alcohol and drugs dominated every aspect of his own life.
Clean and sober now, he has spent the last 17 years lecturing South Africans on the pitfalls of drug- and alcohol abuse.
The South African Police Service’s Anti-Drug Squad were also invited to the talk. The squad and their sniffer dogs demonstrated how quickly drugs could be found, amazing the watching tweens.
“With children growing up quicker these days due to internet exposure and the fast pace of life, we believe the more knowledge teens have, the less likely they will succumb to peer pressure,” Coralee de Almeida from the school governing body said on 21 August.
“We are committed to arming children with knowledge of alcohol and drugs.”
In another effort to empower pupils, the school’s Grade 7 pupils were recently invited to perform the poem I am Tik at the Tshwane Youth Festival at the State Theatre on 12 August.
