MOKOPANE- In an effort to address some of the urgent needs among the youth, Reaching a Generation recently opened a teenage pregnancy care centre in Mokopane, the Celebrate Life Pregnancy Care Centre.
The following needs are taken care of:
• A 4D ultrasound.
• Basic counselling.
• Medical referrals.
• A supportive community for teenage mothers.
Reaching is Generation, a non-profit organisation that has been in existence for 20 years, has developed interventions from a range of programmes to a key focus on whole person development.
Although intergenerational, it places great emphasis on its primary mission of supporting children and youths while keeping the family at the core, through a generational footprint that grew from a local community in Mokopane to the rest of the country and beyond, to countries such as Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and Liberia.
Reaching a Generation is focused on education through some of the programmes, giving access to quality education for needy communities is a priority.
The group has a dream to see every person of influence in their metro flourish into their full God-given potential and thrive. Besides focusing on education, the group has also made phenomenal progress in the field of health and achieved some important milestones.
“It is important to note what Chief Cincinnati once said, ‘we did not inherit the world from our ancestors, but we borrowed it from our children’,” explains Jacques van Bommel.
“Reaching a Generation does not use the traditional not-for-profit approach which is entirely donor-dependent, but uses the social enterprise model as its modus operandi to ensure that sustainability is built into all its interventions, and therefore more development, rather than welfare-oriented in its approach.”
